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 … Read more
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. … Read more
(Ghi chú: Dân pờ-rồ rồi thì đừng chém nhá, vì đây xuất phát từ nhu cầu 1 số người bạn người em của mình chứ không phải mình rảnh chém chơi). Nhiều bạn cứ nghĩ dở tiếng Anh rồi không dám viết bằng tiếng Anh, nhưng thực ra mình nhận thấy các bạn ngại thì … Read more
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
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
