Saigon turned out to be one of my favourites cities on this trip. We were woken up at 4.45 am for our flight to Saigon. This only took one hour and ten minutes. Our first stop was the War Remnants Museum. This was fascinating as the Vietnam War was before I was born. So I only knew a little about…
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VIETNAM, HUE IMPERIAL CITY SIGHTS
Hue was the next city we visited while we were in Vietnam. The first place we saw was our hotel room, this was The Imperial Palace. This was the view from our room and one of my favourite images from Vietnam. The perfume river looks beautiful at sunset. And this was the view at night. We only stayed here two…
Hai Van Pass was the plan for our next day of touring. First we flew south to Da Nang and then drove over the stunning scenery of the Hai Van Pass before descending to Hue. We arrived in Da Nang, and I felt it was very clean, green and felt more organised than Hanoi. Our new guide was so nice…
Halong Bay was a bucket list for me. But I also had no idea it would be a four hours drive there and another four hours back. Vietnam roads and coaches are nothing like what we have at home. Here at home, this journey would have taken a couple of hours. It is only 100 km but it still took…
Hanoi was our first city on this tour of Vietnam. After our twelve hour flight arriving at 6.30 am. We were taken to our hotel which was the Melia Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis. We were meant to be taken for a buffet breakfast. And then an introduction to Hanoi on our trip into the city’s old town by…
OUR AROUND THE WORLD TRIP
The around the world trip, something I dream about doing ! I found out that I was getting made redundant in the summer of 2017 and my job would be gone by autumn of 2018. So with my redundancy payment, we had originally decided to take a year out and travel the world. We have never done anything like this…