Siem Reap – Phnom Penh, Day 1: On The Tour Bus To Cambodia
I’d been to Cambodia with a friend once before, in February 2008, just a few months before Vietnam and Cambodia agreed on visa exemption for ordinary passport holders. At that time, we had our passport glued with a paper visa and paid 20 USD at the Moc Bai border gate. This time I went with […]
Nice Idea Of Traveling
Today, I read several nice ideas of traveling on some blogs. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” — Glenn Clark (1882 – 1956) “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar […]
My 1995 Summer
Lâu lắm rồi tôi không viết văn. Chính xác là 8 năm có lẻ, từ cái đợt thi vào đại học năm 2000. Trời, nhìn lại thấy 8 năm trôi qua nhanh quá. Giờ tự dưng muốn viết văn nhưng từ ngữ bay biến đâu cả. Trong một ngày nóng nực thế này, tôi muốn […]
Danba
[Tiếng Việt ở dưới] I only spent two and a half days in Danba, but this small and beautiful land left me with many memories. Danba has everything: towns and countryside, mountains and rivers, trees and grass, sunny and rainy days, moonlit and starry nights, Han and Tibetan people, meat and vegetables. In particular, the […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 15: Chengdu To Hanoi, Transit In Guangzhou
I didn’t have a good night sleep so I felt a lil bit tired after waking up. Alex said that he didn’t wanna miss breakfast. Alex looked forward to a Western breakfast, but they served a Chinese one. Ha ha! But I liked this kind of a light breakfast. We rent a bike next door, […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 14: Danba To Chengdu
We got up very early, packed up very fast. We shared a cab with an Asian guy, costing 3 yuans each. We were early for the bus so I had a light breakfast. The drive to Chengdu got us stuck in 2 traffic jams, one of which was caused by our bus driver. He hit […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 13: Danba Hiking
Last night I had the longest sleep ever. I didn’t wanna go out, but then to please Alex’s desire to walk more, we got out of the hotel at 9 AM and walked along the road out of town until we found a track. We met a Tibetan woman, later she gave Alex two oranges. […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 12: Garzê To Danba
I hardly slept so I got up early. I rushed Alex to pack things up because we had to walk to the bus station. The bus looked like a truck with so many things on the floor, blocking the isle. The music on the bus was too loud. Also, the driver used too much of […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 11: Garzê Monastery
We woke up very late around 8 AM. Didn’t know what to do so I listened to music while waiting for the rain to stop. As Alex wanted to go out, at 10 AM, we walked to a monastery nearby then another temple on the way we went to the mountains yesterday. 4 hours of […]