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October 25, 2002Siem ReapMy original plan was to take a boat up the Mekong River in Cambodia to the Lao border and then on up through Laos but I kept hearing reports...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 25, 2002 08:36 AM
TrackBack | Category: Cambodia, Flights, Hostels & Guesthouses, Motorcycles, Restaurants October 24, 2002Cambodia TodayPol Pot, the architect of one of the most brutal and radical revolutions that had its origins in Beijing China, was never brought to international justice. He died in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 24, 2002 08:32 AM
TrackBack | Category: Cambodia, Hostels & Guesthouses, Politics Facing Cambodia's PastWe got our second wind and almost reluctantly mounted a motorcycle taxi to do what we (or at least I) came here to do and that is to see,...Read this update October 22, 2002Entering CambodiaOctober 13-25 2002 At the Phnom Penh airport your passport is passed along from one to another of 13 uniformed and polished immigration officials sitting all in a row before...Read this update October 20, 2002The Communist PartyPeople everywhere in Viet Nam confided in me, as a foreigner who would not know who to tell anyway, that they hated the corrupt officials in the Communist Party that...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 20, 2002 08:15 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Reading, Viet Nam Catholics In VietnamCatholics have never had an easy time of it in Vietnam beginning with the Confucian elite who opposd the intrusions of missionaries among whom was Alexandre de Rhodes who devised...Read this update 'Peaceful Evolution'In Viet Nam, the enemies of the Communist Party, in the absence of conflict, has become the democracy and human rights promoted by the forces of 'peaceful evolution.' Enemy jets...Read this update October 17, 2002The Myth of "Nam"The male fantasy of Saigon that was nurtured in Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" written in the 1950's is recreated superficially in bars in Saigon with names like Apocalypse...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 17, 2002 07:02 AM
TrackBack | Category: Reading, Reflections, Viet Nam October 16, 2002Tourism Vietnamese StyleFrom the 200 kilometers of the Cu Chi tunnels, six layers deep just outside Saigon, the Viet Cong (South Vietnamese communist fighters) planned their campaigns on the South Vietnamese...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 16, 2002 08:06 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, History, Viet Nam October 14, 2002SaigonI wrote this in the Cambodian Foreign Correspondent's Club. Most countries have them...It's a good place to get away from the moto taxis, the cyclos and beggars, the heat...Read this update October 12, 2002Making Friends in Lang Cospent the night in a backpacker hotel before boarding an air conditioned tour bus the next morning for Danang. On the way to Danang though, we pass through Lang...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 12, 2002 04:52 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Reading, Viet Nam October 11, 2002To Hue On A Sack Of RiceMy motorcycle taxi drivr, Mr. Binh, takes me to a small cafe by the side of the road leading out of Quang Tri where we wait to wave down...Read this update October 08, 2002Quang TriThe next morning in Dong Ha, Mr. Binh picks me up at 8:00 and the hotel owner toasts us with tea before we motorcycle about 25 km south to...Read this update October 06, 2002Vinh Moc TunnelsI freak in the 2.5 km of tunnels at Vinh Moc just a few kilometers north of Dang Ha and beg to be led out of the nearest exit....Read this update October 05, 2002Viet KiewIn Dong Ha, my motorcycle taxi driver and I talk about Vietnam and America and the Viet Kiew, the Vietnamese Americans that return to visit. He greatly resents these...Read this update October 04, 2002Dong Ha and the DMZOctober 4, 2002 Stumbled off the night train from Hanoi at 6am and found a seat at the outdoor railroad station cafe to dump my bags and have a...Read this update October 03, 2002Getting BlessedGetting into Hanoi late on the train after visiting Sapa, I walked into a hotel down the street from the train station because I was going to leave again the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 3, 2002 08:19 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Touching Experiences, Viet Nam October 01, 2002SapaTuesday October 1-3, 2002 Took the narrow gauge train to Lao Cai on the Chinese border and then traveled an hour by 4-wheel drive over a torturously slow single...Read this update |
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