Dien Bien – Hai Phong, Day 3: Dien Bien Phu
I hardly slept on the coach. It reached the Pha Din Pass around 3 AM. I looked straight forward and it made me a bit scared. I admired that the driver could skillfully navigate the directions when the fogs limited my vision to 1 meter or so. We reached Dien Bien Phu City around 6 […]
Dien Bien – Hai Phong, Day 2: Hanoi To Dien Bien
After having breakfast at the hotel, my sis and I checked out early and walked to the nearest bus stop. Just when we reached the Gia Lam bus station then we realized that we should have taken the other way around. So we paid an extra bus fare to reach the My Dinh bus station. […]
Dien Bien – Hai Phong, Day 1: Hanoi
My plane took off from the Tan Son Nhat Airport a lil bit later than expected. Though my flight was with VietJetAir, I went to the Hanoi‘s center by the JetStar bus. I checked in the Hanoi Sports Hotel (the one I stayed on the last trip to Sapa and Tam Coc) and took a […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 6: Uncle Ho Mausoleum (Hanoi)
After breakfast at the hotel, we took the bus at the Sword Lake to the Uncle Ho Mausoleum at Ba Dinh District. Then we had lunch separately (one of us had rice while the rest ate “bún chả”). Taking a long rest, we checked out of the hotel around 4 PM and had an early […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 5: Tam Coc – Bich Dong (Ninh Binh)
We came back to Hanoi very early, so we stayed at the train station for a while before catching a taxi back to Hanoi Sports Hotel. We walked to the Sword Lake and enjoyed seeing people exercising for a bit, then searched for the place where a bus would wait for us. Around 8 AM, […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 4: O Quy Ho Mountain Pass (Lao Cai)
It was raining in the morning which prevented us from going outside early as we expected. However, we were lucky that the rain stopped around 9 AM. We headed out to rent 2 motorbikes at a nearby hotel, then straight to the Ô Quý Hồ peak. We passed “Thác Bạc” (Silver Waterfall) but then we […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 3: Cat Cat Village (Sapa)
We had breakfast and checked out of the hotel. The trek to Cát Cát Village started at 9:30 AM. The village was quite far from the center of Sapa as we leisurely walked for about 45 minutes to reach the place where the guide had to buy tickets. Around 11 AM, we reached the waterfall […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 2: Ham Rong Mountain And The Sapa Stone Church
Around 5:30 AM, we reached the Lao Cai train station. Even though there’s a person to pick us up, we had to wait for about an hour for the coach to Sapa to depart (maybe because the hotel needed to pick up passengers for another train which left later than ours). We checked in and […]
Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 1: Hanoi To Sapa
Because the VietJetAir plane to Hanoi was delayed several hours, we landed at Noi Bai airport quite early in the morning. We only reached the Hanoi Sports Hotel around 3 AM. We were all too tired and went to sleep right away. The alarm woke me up around 7 AM. We headed downstairs for breakfast. […]