Almost 21 hours on the bus catapult me from the cold north of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the hot south of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Hardly bearable without sleeping pills. Actually, it should have been only 19 hours, and the fact that the three of us end up in a damn slow … Continue reading “From Vietnam to Laos”
Between Pagodas and Ho Chi Minh: In the Capital of Vietnam
From Hanoi over mountain roads to Sapa in the northwest of Vietnam
Cone karst island world in the north of Vietnam
Citadel and Royal Tombs in Central Vietnam
Old town in central Vietnam
In southern Vietnam
In the metropolis in the south of Vietnam
At the floating markets (Vietnam)
I travel by boat from Phnom Penh down the Mekong to Vietnam. At the border we have to go into a quarantine room and pay a few cents (very effective against SARS…), the luggage is x-rayed (even at this tiny crossing) and finally we continue to Chao Doc in the Mekong Delta. I immediately take … Continue reading “From Cambodia to Vietnam”