Category Archive for "Vietnam" | globedDOTTIngTravel

Reunification Day in Saigon…

Posted in: 2012, Vietnam | May 3, 2012 at 5:22 am , by globedottingtravel

May 1, 2012 Ok, let’s try again. I had finished writing this entire post, when the application shut down, and I lost everything! I need to remember to save periodically! Anyway, yesterday was the 37th anniversary of the reunification of North and South Vietnam, the day which marked the end...

Weekend in Saigon…

Posted in: 2012, Vietnam | April 30, 2012 at 4:22 pm , by globedottingtravel

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April 30, 2012 I had a great weekend in Saigon, hanging out with my friend, Sue. We hooked up on Saturday afternoon, when I found out her plane from Hong Kong had been significantly delayed, getting in at 5:30am. We then proceeded to run around town picking up stuff for...

Arrived in Saigon…

Posted in: 2012, Vietnam | April 29, 2012 at 9:47 am , by globedottingtravel

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I arrived in Saigon last night (or Ho Chi Minh City as it is also known). My plane from NYC to Hong Kong was delayed several times, making my connection tighter and tighter (about 15-20 minutes by the time we landed in Hong Kong). But there were enough people on...

>Day 37. Respite in Hanoi and arrived in Myanmar yesterday.

Posted in: Myanmar, Vietnam | April 14, 2011 at 5:36 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>(posted on day 41)Yesterday I had a nice respite at the spa in Hanoi, tucked down a little side street… I had a massage, a facial, a manicure and pedicure — total charge…$60!! Then I had about an hour before my pickup for transfer to the airport, so I wandered...

>Day 36. Sa Pa to Hanoi.

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 9, 2011 at 1:19 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>I arrived back in Hanoi at 5:30am this morning. My bunk mates last night were a couple from Vail, Colorado and a young gentleman from Kyoto, Japan, who is now living in Hanoi. He was quite concerned about my relatives in Tokyo! Mike, kai and natsu, i hope you are...

>Day 35. Last day in Sa Pa.

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 8, 2011 at 11:36 pm , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>I had a great day. We “trekked” (more like “strolled”) through a village. I got to meet some of the women there. Then I had lunch back in the town of Sa Pa and walked around the town for a couple of hours. I will write more later when I...

>Day 34. Sa Pa. Flower H’mong Market.

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 7, 2011 at 8:24 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>Headed out early to get to the market for the Flower H’mong tribe which only happens once each week on Thursday. It was a looooonnnnnngggg drive along the snaky, bumpy road…about 2-1/2 hours to get there. And it was foggy again, which made the drive less interesting. However, I could...

>Day 33. Sa Pa

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 7, 2011 at 8:09 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>(posted on day 34)I checked into my “luxury” train to Sa Pa at 9:00 last night. And found out that “luxury” meant sharing a four person cabin. I guess the non-luxury is regular train seats? As I waited for my other three bunk mates, I wondered who I’d be sleeping...

>Day 32. Leave Saigon for Sapa, via Hanoi

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 6, 2011 at 10:34 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>I had a nice rest by the pool yesterday, and finished reading “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner”. I enjoyed it very much. Kind of along the lines of Amy Tan’s books. So now I will read “Moscow Rules” by Daniel Silva…one of those espionage, KGB kind of books. I also downloaded Tolstoy’s...

>Day 31. Saigon (part 3)

Posted in: RTW 2011, Vietnam | April 6, 2011 at 10:24 am , by globeDOTTIngTravel

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>(posted day 33, yippee, part 2 posted after much coaxing….here goes with part 3 of day 31) Walking around, seeing the difference in dress and the decrease in bicycles, etc., I felt very lucky to have been to a lot of countries, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Uganda, Morocco,...