All Entries in the "Vietnam" Category

What to expect in a Vietnamese Restaurant

Going out to eat at a restaurant is easy, right?
…not always.
Often when you find yourself in other countries, even though there’s a waiter, a table, you are putting food in your mouth, and there’s a bill – there are many things that can be vastly different. As I lived in Vietnam there [...]

Photo of the Week – Vietnam

Hard Hat – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
While on a cyclo ride in HCMC, I encountered this guy hanging out of a little motorized tuk tuk in HCMC.  I found his choice of helmet funny – a throw back from the war.  Granted, sometimes I felt like driving in Saigon was similar to going into [...]

Saigon City Guide

Last month I produced a Saigon City guide podcast for one of my favorite travel websites, The Indie Travel Podcast.  I love writing, and I wasn’t really sure how I would like researching and doing a podcast, but it proved ot be a lot of fun!  So – here’s everything you want to know about [...]

Finding My Inner Flute – Mui Ne

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I’m laying with on my back on the floor, and aloe vera gel packets on every section of my face except for two openings for my nostrils; it’s a good thing I’m not claustrophobic. I’m in another [...]

Get Your Motor Runnin’ – Easy Riders

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I’ve been in Vietnam now for 4 months and I keep hearing about a city in the south that is supposedly not like Vietnam; the weather is cool, the air is fresh, and it’s reminiscint of a French village. The name is Oz…ok, I’m just making sure you’re awake, actually [...]

Goodbye Vietnam

You can’t come to Vietnam and not recall Robin Williams famous words “Goooodddd Moorrrnnninggggg Vietnammmmm!!!” I had spent one month in Vietnam – the longest in any one country yet (besides my SE Asia home base of Singapore). I had high expectations for Vietnam, and I’m happy to say that they were met. I expected [...]

The City with Two Names – Saigon

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I always wanted to change my name. When I was about 8 years old I told my brother and sister that I was no longer going to answer to being [...]

Nha Trang Vietnam – Local Experiences

Interview – Nha Trang

Side Note: I was in Nha Trang for a few days and didn’t take many pictures- however I felt that this one was something I couldn’t pass up. This picture was actually digitally reproduced on the bathtub tiling in our room! I asked other travelers in the hotel if they had a [...]

A Stitch in Time – Hoi An

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I have been a clothes hound my whole life. I still remember my favorite outfits from when I was a little girl (the blue holly hobby top). My mom used to sew me outfits, yet she never passed that sewing skill on to me – I preferred to simply [...]

Hue – Where my luck finally ran out

Photo: Boat along the Perfume River
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Out of the train and into the sauna of Hue. We traveled by train through the night into what is considered as South Vietnam. Hue is a small town of about 300,000 people (I’m not being sarcastic) and it holds a very prominent place [...]

How to Cross The Street in Vietnam

Photo: The ever-present motorbike – a staple in Vietnam culture
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These pictures speak for themselves…it’s all about the motorbike in Vietnam! Mix that in with some bicycles, a few pedestrians and a very few cars – and you’ve got [...]

Hanoi – The City that Sleeps

Photo: Bridge over Hoan Kiem Lake – early morning
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Hanoi is a large metropolis of 3.1 million people. Yet there are no sky scrapers. However, there are about 100 motor bikes for every one car! In cities of this size we tend to think they they never sleep – that they [...]

One Man’s Pet is Another Man’s Dinner – Bac Ha Market

Photo:  Tribe woman at Bac Ha Market
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I’ve seen my share of markets during my travels – I feel like I”m pretty seasoned when it comes to seeing every imaginable type of veggie or fruit, smelling every fowl odor that comes along with the fish markets, and [...]

8 Questions – Northern Vietnam

Man in rice field

Photo: Man planting in rice field

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When I decided to go to Vietnam I realized that besides seeing a few Hollywood movies about the war, I knew very little about the country and the American history there. This was really the first country that I visited [...]

Book Review – The Girl in The Picture

The Girl in the Picture – The story of Kim Phuc – by Denise Chong

This is the story about a picture which I’m sure you’ve all seen – a little girl, Kim Phuc, running down a road, naked and burned by napalm – her picture was snapped and it changed her life. Nick Ut was [...]