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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 15: Chengdu To Hanoi, Transit In Guangzhou

Chengdu panda

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, … Read more