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Trekking in Sapa

May 22, 2013

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Sapa is a town in Vietnam’s northern frontier, very close to the Chinese border. The local people in Sapa do not speak Vietnamese, at least not as their first language. They are the Hmong people, ethnic minorities, farmers in the vast valleys of the northern peaks. They are all very, very small. The women marry […]

Local flavor in Hanoi

May 22, 2013

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After 2600 km on motorbikes, Evan and I at last reached the great northern metropolis of Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, population 6.5 million (officially but it’s much higher than that in reality). By the time we checked into our hostel we were exhausted, filthy, and sick. Driving on the A1 and inhaling all of that […]

Motoring through Nam IV

May 22, 2013

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From Hue we drove to Phoung Nha-Ke Bang National Park. The park is beautiful, as you can see.                         Evan and I stayed in the village of Son Trach where no English was spoken. In fact, between Hue and Hanoi, where Evan and I spent […]

Motoring through Nam part III

May 22, 2013

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Tomorrow morning I fly to the great, mystical nation of India. There is little doubt that this chapter of exploration will generate much fodder for this blog, so I apologize if I am a bit hurried in the remaining summation of Vietnam. If only there were more time. The drive from Nha Trang to Hoi […]

Motoring through Nam part deux

May 14, 2013

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We left for Dalat around 10am, once again later than we’d hoped to set off. Dalat is only about 200 km from Mui Ne but it took us 7 hours because of a long stop in the mountains that I’ll elaborate on in a minute. We saw very few cars for the first 150 km. […]

Motoring through Nam part I: The Cobra

May 7, 2013

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A bit of info about Vietnam’s road map: Highway 1 (also called the A1 or QL1) is Vietnam’s major highway which runs North-South along the coast. For the most part the A1 is only a two lane road, crammed with cars and Mack Trucks, so there’s lots of dangerous passing. Cars and trucks coming from the […]

Good morning, Vietnam

May 6, 2013

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Towards the end of March as my time in Cambodia was coming to a close I began to think about the next chapter: Vietnam. I heard it wasn’t uncommon for backpackers to buy a motorbike in Vietnam, travel from one end of the country to the other (either Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi or […]

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