Phnom Penh |
For every disappointment like Saigon there's at least a few pleasant surprises, like Phnom Penh for example. What makes it so different from the former is hard to say, though. If Saigon is a red light... Posted by Food Tube on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:00 PST |
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) |
Sooner or later there was bound to be a city I just didn't take to, and that city turned out to be Saigon - a slightly unfortunate note to leave Vietnam on. I suppose things started badly on the train... Posted by Food Tube on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:02:00 PST |
Central Vietnam |
The longest train journey you can take is from the south of Portugal, across Europe and Russia, down through China and all the way to Ho Chi Minh city in the south of Vietnam. I'm not about to attempt... Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:39:00 PST |
Hanoi |
It was a full day's journey to get from Sapa to Hanoi - the first hour on the back of a motorbike and another 12 sitting on a bench on a very slow train. The carriage was near empty for most of the jo... Posted by Food Tube on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:38:00 PST |
Sapa |
Getting from Jinhong (in China) to Sapa (in Vietnam) was a small nightmare. Jinhong is near the Burmese and Laotian borders and people often use it as a first stop in China, or a last stop out of Chin... Posted by Food Tube on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:06:00 PST |
Xishuangbanna |
As I left Lijinag Mama Naxi packed me off with a selection of fruit and a bag of lavender and sent me with one of her drivers to the bus station, where I got on the sleeper bus to Jinhong. Sleeper bus... Posted by Food Tube on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:17:00 PST |
Lijiang |
On the advice of Dylan from the hotel in Dali I saved myself a couple of quid by getting the bus to Lijiang from the side of the road instead of booking it through an agency in town. That's how I came... Posted by Food Tube on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:47:00 PST |
Butterfly Deathcamp Themepark |
I was sitting in Mr Li's cafe in Dali, wondering what I was going to do with my day, when I noticed a list of local festivals. As it so happened, one of them was on that very day - the "Butterfly Fest... Posted by Food Tube on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:10:00 PST |
Dali |
Arriving in Dali I couldn't help thinking "What a dump." The dusty dirtiness, the urinal-grey-tiled buildings, the aggressive taxi drivers... All seemed calculated to induce a feeling of weary disgust... Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:11:00 PST |
Yangshuo and Kunming |
The journey to Yangshuo was all too familiar - the same uncomfortable hard-sleeper where they locked all the toilets at midnight, the same unwelcome 7am arrival in Guilin and the all-too-familiar bus ... Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PST |