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I’ve been to a few Asian and I couldn’t help but feel that among the cities that I’ve been to, Luang Prabang is indeed the most beautiful and photogenic of them all. The city is lined with restored French colonial buildings and with Buddhist temples. Here’s a brief excerpt about Luang Prabang from Wikipedia. “Luang [...]
Food is definitely cheap in Vietnam especially if you eat on the street side restaurants that line up the busy streets of Hanoi. Food is even cheaper if you travel outside the cities. Here are some of the tasty, filling but cheap foods that I’ve tried in Vietnam. Baguettes A plain baguette will cost you [...]
It was raining hard on my first two days in Sapa, Vietnam and there’s nothing much that can be done outside. The roads are slippery and hiking on your own is not advisable. I recall how amazed I was on my second night when the town seemed to be completely covered with fog. I came [...]
Buying Train Tickets After having spent 11 days in Hanoi, we’ve decided to drag our lazy selves up to Sapa, Vietnam. I’’ve heard a lot of good things about Sapa and I was so eager to see the place myself. The picturesque mountain views and the green rice terraces made me even more curious to [...]
I was surprised when I went back to Hanoi and stayed for eleven days that I noticed the number of walking vendors carrying heavy “quang ganh ”(two baskets hanging on a wooden pole) on their shoulders. I wonder why I didn’t noticed them on my first visit last 2009, maybe because I was too busy [...]
I’ve seen the water puppet show the last time I was here in Hanoi and I felt the urge to see it again. This was the highlight of my last visit to Hanoi and I really enjoyed it a lot. Thang Long Water Puppet Theater can be found at 57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street (Old [...]
Southeast Asia is pretty much a safe place to travel. There are so many independent travellers from different countries travelling around Southeast Asia and a lot of them never had a major hassle on their travels. I travelled on my own in Southeast Asia for five weeks before I went to China, India and Nepal [...]
It all started with Facebook. I saw Ms. Gina’s ‘FB like” in one of my travel photos and checked her profile out. I was amazed with the pic where their background seemed to be Mt. Everest. Without hesitation I contacted Ms. Gina and asked her about it. And it was indeed Mt. Everest. I was [...]
If there’s one word that I can best associate with Hanoi, it’s shopping. The Old Quarter is full of small shops that will surely wake up your shopaholic genes. Here’s a list of some of the streets and the products that you’ll usually find in there. Nha Ching: Tourists Shops, Boutiques and Tailors Hang Ma: [...]
I’ve been in the Old Quarters of Hanoi last 2009 and if I could remember it right, I only spent around three days in this charming yet chaotic capital of Vietnam. This time around I intended to spend around eleven days before I head on to Sapa. Most travellers that I met in my hostel [...]
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