eat, drink, travel, repeat
After six months, 6 countries, 540 meals (a very conservative estimate) and a number of mad dashes for the loo, its time to talk about the best food in South-East Asia. The best part of travelling is eating. I mean it. We may not set off with this as the reason for our travels, but […]
To travel from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh/whatever seemed easy enough. We had planned to splurge a bit and fly the short distance, after all it should only cost $50 or even less right? Wrong. For some reason the route between Saigon and it’s close neighbour Phnom Penh is ridiculously expensive, especially seeming as it’s such a […]
The Best Things About Travelling in Vietnam Banh Mi Back in Melbourne, we were always big fans of Vietnamese rolls, whether it was vietnam roast chicken rolls with pockets of eye-watering chillies from Jenny’s Hot Breads in Camberwell, pate-filled deliciousness from Johnston street, pork meatball rolls from that joint near Barkly square or bbq pork […]
Video: Vietnam, a few seconds a day. Our latest travel-mash-video thing is done and dusted. Check out our month of travel as we travel from the top to bottom of Vietnam. After spending 3 months in Thailand and Laos, we jumped on a place and headed for Vietnam, to spend a month backpacking, drinking stupidly […]
Last on our list for Vietnam was Saigon – it might be called Ho Chi Minh by the government, on maps, and by those in the north, but its still Saigon to the people that live there. I would call it Box Hill north. Arriving in Saigon felt pretty good, we had covered a lot […]
Despite a quick search of the blogosphere indicating otherwise, it is possible to get a massage in Dalat where there masseuse doesn’t try to earn some extra Dong by trying to grab your dong (hahaha, you so funny Ryan). So decided to get a massage in Dalat, as to be honest, we had to find […]
So at the end of our time in northern Vietnam – before we moved south toward Hoi An – there was a massive surprise in store for Asha. Late one night in Hanoi two of our favourite people – Asha’s brother Joel and his lovely girlfriend Lilli – knocked on our hotel room door. Asha […]
Two of our favourite people in the world, Asha’s brother Joel and his awesome girlfriend Lilli, decided to surprise Asha and pay us a week long visit in Vietnam. Lilli got in touch with Ryan a few weeks beforehand to put the surprise plan into action – but Asha had no idea they were coming, […]
I visited Hanoi 2 years ago while I was travelling by myself and to be brutally honest– I hated the place. It was stinking hot, dusty and motorbikes dominated every possible space, making it hard to even walk let alone think. Despite my previous experience in Hanoi, I was determined to try again. I’m glad […]
So you can’t come to northern Vietnam without going to Ha Long bay, its the reason half of the tourists come to Hanoi in the first place. But our enthusiasm for seeing the UNESCO world heritage listed bay was deflated a bit by the tour-group nature of the options available – it seemed there were […]
Sapa – or more accurately, the mountainous countryside around Sapa – is the most stunningly beautiful place we have been since leaving the islands of Thailand’s Krabi provence a few months ago. On this point, Asha and I both agree. To get to Sapa we took an overnight sleeper train (our favourite mode of transportation) […]