Vietnam travel stories

TRIP TO ASIA, NOVEMBER 2002

Hong Kong I'll describe my flights to Hong Kong at the end of this report, and start chronologically with my arrival there. I had studied extensively what to do on arrival; at a transport ser...

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Vietnam, winter 2000 [II]

( Day 7) This leg of the trip, 600 kms down through the Central Highlands, will eventually take me to Sai Gon. It`s almost 200 kms to the next locale with hotels, services and any tourists to speak...

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Vietnam, winter 2000 [I]

Viet Nam, bicycle and Proust (Day 1, 30 November 2000) I`m back in Viet Nam for my second tour, picking up where I ran out of time, if not steam, this past May, on the same bike with a replaceme...

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Vietnam, spring 2000 [III]

V. A tale of three tourist towns (cont?d) - Luc Yen, Bac Ha & Sa Pa I am going to Bac Ha on the recommendation of my guidebook. Bac Ha is an underdeveloped tourist town, full of colorful tribesp...

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Vietnam, spring 2000 [II]

III. Problems So far the trip has been uneventful. On my first cycling day (an easy 78 kms, 4 hours) I reach Hoa Binh, a town of 25-50,000 people (I estimate about 100 portraits of Uncle Ho on t...

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