Archive for July, 2011

Pre-post fun – the Chinese train story

Pre-post fun – the Chinese train story

A little game of imagination.
You are carrying your heavy backpacks through the crowds, the heat of the day is squeezing the last juices out of your body and you finally … Continue reading

After a week in China – the reality

After a week in China – the reality

To say it has been hard would be an understatement. After 5 months traveling on land through SE Asia, without luxuries and on a tight budget, we thought we are … Continue reading

 
Yangdi to Xingping boat on the Li river and onto unpleasantly surprising Yangshuo

Yangdi to Xingping boat on the Li river and onto unpleasantly surprising Yangshuo

Our first official stop in China – Guilin and Yangshuo – had been decided both because of the beautiful scenery that one can find there and for its close proximity … Continue reading

Apparently in China people speak Chinese, ha!

Apparently in China people speak Chinese, ha!

I have traveled in Japan, where few speak English and none of the signs mean a thing, but China so far is proving even harder. We spent more than 2 … Continue reading

 
Ha Long Bay’s bad weather and affirming we are not suited to tours

Ha Long Bay’s bad weather and affirming we are not suited to tours

 

 
 
How to visit Ha Long Bay was one of the hardest plans we had to craft out so far. The place is so touristy that it is over-saturated by promises … Continue reading

Halong Bay – sneak peak

Halong Bay – sneak peak

 
 
We did it. After all the drama and stress we spent the last two nights on a boat in one of the most magnificent surroundings we have seen. Our legs … Continue reading

 
The worst part about traveling on a tight budget

The worst part about traveling on a tight budget

…is the time you have to spend researching so you get the best for the few bucks you can part with.
The charm of Hanoi, the narrow room with small doors … Continue reading

Finding authentic Vietnam in the tourist cloud of Hoi An

Finding authentic Vietnam in the tourist cloud of Hoi An

Hoi An, a small city in the middle of the long slender Vietnam, has a history that stretches 2000 years back to the Champa Empire, when it was a commercial … Continue reading

 
Outside Dalat in pictures – temples, new religions and a lot of rain

Outside Dalat in pictures – temples, new religions and a lot of rain

Dalat is a beautiful city no doubt, but you have barely scraped the surface if you limit yourself to just roaming its hilly streets up and down without seeing what … Continue reading

Update blabs from Hue

Update blabs from Hue

Hoi An was hot. Hue is hot. I am a little bit over it.
Today we walked to the Citadel in Hue and sweated our way through the grounds of this … Continue reading