Andy's Blog - Gone Further

This is my second attempt at a Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC – formerly Saigon) blog. The first one was more like a history lesson; I don’t even like history that much. I’ve redone it and hopefully this is more what I’m after. I may do a good, chunky historically-factual blog in [...]

We weren’t sure where to go after Hanoi. Do we go to Hue and visit the Citadel? How about Da Nang for China Beach? We eventually settled on a route that would take us to Hoi An and then onto Nha Trang – the therory being that we would be able to explore [...]

22 August 2009 – 26 August 2009
This was stop one in Vietnam and represented our first port of call during the trip where we had no idea what was going to happen next with no set itinerary from here on.  As we were arriving late in Hanoi and Pezza was suffering from what is technically [...]

We arrived in Hanoi on Saturday and are here again now however we have spent the last two days out and about in Ha Long Bay…

There are no words that can describe this place that can possibly do it justice. I’ll have a stab at it anyway. What you see in the pictures is [...]