Vietnam
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- vespa
so i don't carry on hijacking TaraTara's thread, anyone been to Vietnam? I'm so-oo excited, going in a month, any recommendations?
Will probably be mainly around the south, Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta...
- benfal990
open your eyes for snakes and stuff like that
- build0
Yes, we've been. I'll try and think of some good places to got for you...
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- Kuz0
Take a tour of the famous Ho Chi Min trail
- soda0
I was there for three months on and off on my world tour 2001 - 2003... the best time of my life.
Still paying for it now though!!
soda
(Feb 17 05, 04:49)
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from the other thread....!
- Kuz0
so what was your experience like soda? do you have any reccomendations of things to do, places to see, people to meet?
- designerror0
you should eat eat and eat..
love their food so much!!
- Ell0
I would like to go to Nam
there is a Vietnamese restaurant in Dalston and the food is amazing
- EscalatorWit0
opium dens in the jungle are fun
- treZor0
hey vespa, don't go to Hanong in the north during the winter, it's expensive, cold and shit to see, go south
- rasko40
I acquired a pretty neat collection of ear-necklaces when I was over there, this was a few years ago though.
*spots demons coming up the stairs*
- Kuz0
I acquired a pretty neat collection of ear-necklaces when I was over there, this was a few years ago though.
*spots demons coming up the stairs*
rasko4
(Feb 17 05, 06:13)
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omg rasko! that's like Dolph Lundgren in Universal Soldiers!!
- vespa0
aw thanks for the tips guys, yea probably won't go north cos my brother is south and he keeps whinging about how cold it is up north at the moment...
rasko - ear necklaces?! do tell
- vespa0
haha ok
- unfitdutchfat0
be careful you are not beaten or raped
- hUtChhOuSe0
I spent a couple of months touring Nam last Feb.
What a great place...
- soda0
we worked our way up the first time, there is pretty much two ways to go (due to the government owning all the tour operators) you go down from north to south or vice versa. Alternative is to buy a bike and then sell it at the end of your trip. It used to be impossible to hire cars due to the government laws etc.
As for places to go, Saigon is awesome... crazy and exactly like you would imagine based on all those shitty war movies.
It was my first experience of Asia and Travelling and it's a great place to start.
Na Trang was nice and chilled, good beaches good people, very agressive lady boys.
We went up to this private peninsular for three days where we slept in pagodas, hiked up a waterfall and through a jungle and swam in phosperous algae at night. All this with a tour guide who used to smuggle ganga into the us from canada in a canoe....
Da Lat was great in a different way, it's where the vietnamese go to cool off and have a holiday. Very touristy but touristy for them not aimed at us. We ended up clubbing with some local kids (they would keep the bars open for as long as we were drinking so the locals loved us) stayed in an amazing place there too...
Trying to think of some more things but the memory is a bit cloudy for the names apart from the typical places like the tunnels, the mekong delta the American War museum.
I'll go through my diary at home tonight and dig out some more stuff...
- soda0
be careful you are not beaten or raped
unfitdutchfat
(Feb 17 05, 06:19)-------------------------
eh?
whats that all about?
- CaP0
i like the smell of napalm in the morning.
- stevii0
be careful you are not beaten or raped
unfitdutchfat
(Feb 17 05, 06:19)-------------------- -----
eh?
whats that all about?
soda
(Feb 17 05, 06:40)unfitdutchfat=Jaxz.. ignore him.
- puter0
The only thing going in and out is my knife.