Getting Around When you’re travelling in Saigon or Hanoi, you’d be constantly reminded, by well-meaning hotel staff, to take care of your backpacks and avoid flashing mobile phones or fancy digital cameras. It can make you more cautious than necessary. Honestly, I think the rules of travel are applicable anywhere in the world. As a…
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Is Ha Long Bay overrated? That’s the question we needed to answer before including Hanoi in our Vietnam trip. After some preliminary reading, I realised: there’d be no way we’d escape taking a tour or crowds. But all the reviews said it was definitely worth it. And I’d second that. Ha Long Bay doesn’t disappoint…
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After a whirlwind 3-day trip in Ho Chi Mihn City (Saigon); we hopped on a plane and head to the north of Vietnam. It takes about two hours to get to Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, from Ho Chi Mihn City. If you’re on a packed schedule, consider half a day wasted on airport transfers and…
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We stayed in District 1 for the entire duration of our stay in Saigon (also called Ho Chi Mihn City). It’s hard to get a real feel of the city when you’re restricted to a 2-day travel schedule. Fortunately, District 1 isn’t a bore. You can spend the day exploring remnants of the city’s colonial past…
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After a long, sleepless night of tossing and turning — in anticipation of the trip; I managed to make it in time for my hotel pick-up at 8 am. We spent the next 15 minutes picking the rest of the members of the tour. Our tour group had an eclectic mix of people — two…
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We arrived in Ho Chi Mihn City, late in the evening, after an extremely long delay in Seoul. The rain poured down in torrents as our taxi made its way through rush hour traffic and I got the first glimpse of the city’s ubiquitous two-wheeler brigade. They whizzed by, negotiated nimble manoeuvres, doubled as…
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