We took a bus from Can Tho to Chau Doc, VN, this took about seven hours as there were lots of breaks. We arrived at Chau Doc and found ourselves in a fabulous hotel overlooking the Mekong Delta. What’s not to like! Here there be birds, lizards and geckos. The guy in this picture had …
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I’ve wanted to see the Mekong Delta for a long time, so next up, Can Tho. We took a five hour bus journey from Saigon to Can Tho, VN, and while there we visited the floating markets. Here the Mekong is deep and wide, and many live on the river banks in wooden, stilted houses. …
We drove back from Ha Long Bay to Hanoi and boarded an overnight sleeper train bound for Hue. We had some misgivings about this train as some of the reviews listed a catalogue of horrors, including overflowing, rancid toilets, and infestations of cockroaches and rats. The idea of rats didn’t particularly bother us as we’ve …
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We were driven from Hanoi to Halong Bay, a drive of about four hours, through the countryside, which mainly consisted of fields where rice and vegetables were growing. While in Hanoi, I was astonished at how few birds there were, I put this down to pollution, although a local told me that birds were shot …
Where on earth to start re Hanoi! I can honestly say I have never experienced a place quite like it. We stayed in the Old Quarter, the old French Colonial area, a busy, vibrant, bustling place. It has a magnetism that draws you in. There are over three million motorbikes on the roads in Hanoi, …
Taman Negara, Malaysia’s oldest National Park. This ancient rain forest is thought to be 130 million years old. It covers millions of acres and is home to innumerable animals and birds, including tigers and elephants. We were fortunate to spend a week here. While walking along one of the many boardwalks/trails, that you could …
After travelling across Malaysia for three weeks, hubs and I spent our last three days in Singapore. I wasn’t particularly excited, as, having visited before, I was wondering what we would find to do, that we hadn’t already done. It was also a little odd returning to civilization after spending so much time in natural …
The art to travelling well, is to travel light, and these darned cases became the bane of our lives. How I came to dread carting them around. Butterworth Ferry, this became torturous… They’ve been hauled up and down endless flights of steps and steep slopes in relentless, punishing heat. Dragged across ramps to access boats …
Invariably, unless booking a weekend in Rome or a fortnight in Spain, holiday planning starts by a trip to one of the numerous specialist travel agents who, within an hour, have strangled any adventure from your plans and sanitised your trip down into a series of preferred airlines, hotel groups and guided tours. We swore …
Hubs and I are off travelling in a few days and I’m beginning to think we may have bitten off more than we can chew. This time around, we have [dis]organised the entire trip ourselves, and apart from needing to book a train/boat or two, we’re pretty much sorted….I hope! If not we may be …
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