Blogs from District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast, Vietnam, Asia - page 38

Here we are in Ho Chi Minh City! Due to traveling for countless hours, and spending countless hours in airports in random destinations around the world, we turned Sept 5th, 6th, and 7th into just one long day. We parked our asses at LAX at 2pm on Sunday September 5th knowing full well that our flight was not going to depart until 12:10am September 6th. We pulled out the crib board and began our 6 month tournament of champions. We ate airport munchies. We bought over-priced books at the airport convenience store. We read, and ate, and played, and slept until finally it was time for the plane to depart. I decided that a nap was in order around 10:30pm and laid on the ground to do so... I was woken up by Tayler nudging me ... read more

Ho Chi Minh City We left Sihanoukville in Southern Cambodia bright and early on a Mekong Express bus headed back to Phnom Penh. We had a two hour break in the capital (enough time for an extremely tasty lunch!) before boarding another bus which would take us all the way through the border and into Vietnam. Unfortunately we would only be able to say "Goood evveeening Vietnaaaam!" (hehe) as the bus was due to arrive about 9pm. The roads were fairly smooth all the way and there was no trouble at the border crossing as Vietnam requires everyone to get their visas ahead of time. We had to get on and off the bus a bit to go get our passport stamped and run all of our luggage through a security scanner. But then we were ... read more

Xin chào dear readers! (Hello in Vietnamese - sounds like “sin chow“) It’s been a while….. but here goes my attempt to catch you up… this is forever long and I apologize... but hope you enjoy if you make it to the end! :) As I finally controlled my laughter over the whole name debacle, I found myself on a bus headed up to the town of Sapa, Vietnam. Adventurous would be an understatement for our driver.. blind, fearless, crazy, suicidal? Those might be more appropriate. The road was windy, 2 lane, and covered in a thick layer of my oldest friend, fog. Instead of waiting for a clear view of potential oncoming traffic, we just went for it, every time, continuously honking our horn to warn of the probable wreckage. I imagined a leisurely ... read more

We just returned from one week in Vietnam! We had a lot of fun...however, we are happy to be home in Cambodia. Here's a very short list of what we liked about Vietnam...and what we missed about Cambodia: In Vietnam, we liked: -Metered Taxis -Prices (most everything was cheaper than in Cambodia!) -Beautiful Beaches -Surfing -Hot Water for our Morning Showers -Walking on Sidewalks (Cambodia has sidewalks, but you can't walk on them because they are filled with parked motos and items for sale) -Buying Snickers and Mars Bars -Women TV Anchors and Women Security Guards (men, mostly, hold these jobs in Cambodia) -Tall Buildings What we missed about Cambodia: -Tuktuks (see picture here: http://www.kriyayoga.com/images/blog_photos/cambodia/tuk_tuk--dsc04063-b1.jpg) -Driving our Moto -Being able to Speak the Language (we don't know much Khmer, but we don't know any Vietnam... read more

Hello Blog (and maybe Mum and Clare who might read this :) This will be the record of our trip, if we can get to an internet place wherever we are :) and because my writing is so bad I won't be able to understand what i wrote as soon as i get back. We made it to Vietnam!! It was a long trip, with clare so superbly dropping us off at the airport in her jammies very early sunday morning. 3hr flight to sydney, then the worst part... the 5hr wait in sydney airport. I thought we were meant to be at gate 50, so we went there, but then luckily Tim realised that it was the wrong one.... we are trying not to spend too much money, so we shared a lunch and by ... read more