http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies My BootsnAll Travel Blog Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:40:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We arrived in Kolkata 4 days ago to a human cesspool of waste. Although we found it completely confronting and couldn't wait to get out, we had been booked a tour into a game reserve outside of the city and were looking forward to going. Less 24 hours after we landed ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/i-want-my-mummy.html Just a quick post to tell you how grose it is here in Culcutta (it is like living in a gutter). Our room is only $20 per night and does have running water if you harrass the landlord about it, but it has very little else that is going for ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/culgutta.html I am running behind on my blog entries for Ho Chi Minh, so you will have to excuse this post being in the India section of our blog. We have been helped so often by folks that have recommended tours or accomodation on their blogs, so I am adding this post ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/lin-phuong.html Our first 24 hours in India have been mixed, ranging from awe as we flew over the Ganges Delta region of Bangladesh and India and over rural plains and waterways near Kolkata international airport to the chaotic traffic and never ceasing horns on the streets as we made our way ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/city-of-no-joy.html While travelling we have found that it is all the small things that make us laugh, gasp, or want to cry. Here is a list of a few of the things that have struck me (Stephanie) in Vietnam. Pampering products - I decided before we left that I would bring along my organic ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/all-the-small-things-part-1.html When preparing to take our first Backpacking adventure three years ago when we had the opportunity to spend 2 days going down the Mekong from Chiang Khong in Northern Thailand to Luang Prabang in Laos we came across a number of images of the Mekong Delta, in Vietnam near where ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/mekong-delta.html A couple of days ago we took a day trip to a fascinating Vietnamese specific religious temple for a group known as Cao Đài which means Great Religion of The Third Period of Revelation and Salvation. What is amazing about this religion in which all it's followers wear robes, the majority being ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/cao-dai.html A perspective from David's eyes....  In the lead up to America (and Australia) entering the Vietnam War (known as the American war in Vietnam and surrounding countries) the the then US Secretary of state publicly stated that (in his words) that if North Vietnam  'did not step back' that America would ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/blasted-to-oblivion.html Before we left Australia we found an interesting article on the web, about a walking tour of Ho Chi Minh City. It sounded fascinating and since taxi's and even cyclo's are relatively expensive we decided to venture out into the traffic and mayhem of the side walks (yes i do mean ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time.html One of the things we're always fascinated by in our travels are the electrical power lines in different places. We've seen the ones in Bangkok a few times and wondered how it is that they keep working but Ho Chi Minh City tops even Bangkok with hundreds of power lines ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/homeschoolhippies/is-there-an-electrician-in-the-house.html