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Baacktracking – Vietnam – Dalat

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I had no idea what Dalat was before I got there. I had never heard of it before I realized I had bought a ticket to it in my hop on hop off bus tour. Dalat is a town north of Saigon in the mountains. Lets just say the bus I was on struggled to get up that mountain. We must have been going under 20k/hour, air con shut off to reserve power for the engine, other buses and cars whizzing by us. It was a slow journey. We finally got in at night. I booked it over to the Peace Hotel 1 with a couple from the UK I had been running into and were on my previous bus journey. Attached to the Peace Hotel is the Peace Cafe where we met some easy riders. The easy riders are a gang of travel tour guides famous in Dalat for taking tourists on motorbike sightseeing tours. They provide you with books they have filled with glowing review from other travelers. We decided to leave the next morning at 8 or 9 with a driver each. [read on]

Backtracking – Vietnam- Saigon.

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

So after cruising through Cambodia, I entered Vietnam, straight to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City….sounds a lot cooler if you call it Saigon). Saigon was pretty tight. I have a friend who just moved down there so I wasn’t such a tourist there. We actually didn’t do much besides go out a couple nights. The nightlife was uninspiring, although there were some nice places. To be honest I was expecting Saigon to be bigger, a la Bangkok, when it was more of a glorified Phnom Penh. Thats not exactly a favorable comparison as Saigon and Vietnam in general is head and heels more developed than Cambodia but anyways. [read on]

Winter In Shanghai

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
So I know its been a while and I probably should post more about my trip (which I will soon) but first things first. So there's a giant snowstorm ripping through China now. And by giant I mean sometimes it ... [Continue reading this entry]