Digging – Chau Doc, Vietnam
A brief interlude in Chau Doc, during which I get to dig a large hole...
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Home Stay – Mekong Delta, Vietnam
A slow three hour drive got us to the Mekong Delta, where we switched to a long boat for another three hour trip along the river.
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Christmas – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A Christmas visit to the War Remnants Museum. This is dedicated to the victims of local wars, with graphic reminders of the effects of napalm and agent orange.
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Vietnam 2 – Thailand 1 – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Our night out in Ho Chi Minh is drastically improved when Vietnam win the football against Thailand
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Sitting – Hoi An, Vietnam
Whilst everyone else puts the finishing touches to their tailoring, I indulge in a spot of people watching in Hoi An, Vietnam
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Hoi An isn’t just an anagram of Hanoi – Hoi An, Vietnam
Taking a bicycle tour in Hoi An on a wet and windy day up to the American bunkers
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Hue – Hue, Vietnam
Great hotel in Hué but despite being exhausted we went straight out for slow brunch then boat ride. Visited the Thien Mu Pagoda which stands on the northern bank of the Perfumed River. A building to the rear also house the Austin car used by Thích Quang Duc, the monk who burnt himself to death in 1963 to protest against…
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Light lunch – Hanoi, Vietnam
Eating some very strange foods in Hanoi, plus a tour of the towns main sights
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No water puppets – Hanoi, Vietnam
Suffering from an excess of rice wine, we narrowly avoid a Vietnamese Water Puppets show in Hanoi
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Bad Prawns – Halong Bay, Vietnam
Useful lesson of the day: If asked how your Vietnamese meal tastes, don’t say “yum-yum”. It sounds like the Vietnamese for “I’m horny”, which can confuse the waitress. Halong Bay was the first UNESCO site and is a series of 3,000 islands rising steeply out of 17,000sq km of sea, and means Descending Dragon Bay. We had a boat to…
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