by Radu Polizu | Mar 18, 2007 | Blog, Laos, Vietnam
Last day in Hanoi was dedicated to the the Old Quarter, named also the “36 street quarter”, the old area of the city that housed the old time guilds of the city, 36 guilds in total that gave it its name. I forfeited the breakfast in the hotel and I went to...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 17, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
I woke up in the morning with the idea of posting the text about Halong Bay that I wrote last night but the internet was still not working, so I decided in the last moment to leave for the trip to Tam Coc in spite of the fact that the sunny weather predicted on...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 16, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
Halong Bay is the jewel of the crown, the best site the Vietnamese have and for good reason. It is an area close to Haiphong, a bay in the Gulf of Tonkin, where the legend said that the dragon who left the land to go into the sea , smashed the earth with his tail and...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
The plan for the last day in the North was to go to another market in Cok Ly. I pondered upon the idea because it was an alternative to go to another market that was different, in another province, but unfortunately , it was a slow day for that market, named Bin Liu,...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
The crowd from the Trekking Cafe was very interesting: Daniella was from Australia and came in Sapa several days ago. The moment she was hitting Australia’s land she was getting bored right away so she traveled almost continuously for the last 10 years living 4...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 11, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
I woke up in the morning in the first horn of the traffic before sunrise and after packing and a quick breakfast where I was joined again by the Aussies. I left for the market. The market was a little slow at 8:00 am but started to get animated a little latter and...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 10, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
We walk up around 6:00 am when the train got to Lao Cai, a city on the Chinese border. A guy from the agency was waiting for us in the train station with large billboards carrying my name, and they brought us right away to a restaurant for breakfast, that like any...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 10, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
Hardly you can find such a great day trip like the one I did today at the Perfume Pagoda. Everything is spectacular and by being in the full festival of the pagoda it made it ten times better. After I finished all the dealings with the travel agents to see what can be...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 9, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
I booked one night in Hotel Camellia ($13) and I went directly to investigate what trips can be done outside of Hanoi. I saved my days during the entire trip because in a trip like this you never know what may come up and the most important asset is time. Even if I...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 9, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
By reaching Hue I left the tropical area of Vietnam. It is raining, sometimes extremely intense and the palm trees disappeared. It is slightly cooler. Hue was the imperial capital of Vietnam and the first question was if you can visit it in only one day, but because a...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 7, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
I booked for the 8:00 am tour to MySon, so I woke up at 6:00 am, packed my stuff, left it in the hotel and I went for a walk in Hoian before the tour left. The target was the market , that in early morning was buzzing with activity, the women, all wearing the...
by Radu Polizu | Mar 6, 2007 | Blog, Vietnam
There were not 10 hours. There were 17 because the bus broke in the middle. This is a common thing in SE Asia. I read about long trips like this many times, on blogs, travelogues, travel books, etc. but is the first time when I experimented directly. The bus had...
