This part of our Vietnam trip was quite different from the previous two weeks. Weather-wise, we had expected the Mekong and HCMC to be very hot, the central part to be mild but a little rainy, and the north to be cooler but dry.…
We were really excited about this part of our trip to Vietnam as Phong Nha looked like such a dream when researching! When referring to Phong Nha, I’m specifically talking about the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the northern part of Central Vietnam,…
We woke up to a sunny, hazy day in Huế. We got ready and went downstairs to our accommodation’s lobby where they served us a homemade breakfast. Our host arranged for our bikes to be delivered and then we were on our way to…
It was very early in the morning, perhaps around 6:00am, when our accommodation let us know that our driver was here to pick us up. We brought our luggage down the stairs and two men very quickly loaded up the car. We had both…
Hội An is just a quick 45-minute drive away from Da Nang, so in a flash, we were transported from the modern city of Da Nang to the quaint town of Hội An. In terms of why we chose to visit Hội An, we…
We left the mystery and awe of the Mekong Delta and landed in the modern city of Da Nang. As Vietnam’s fifth largest city, Da Nang is a busy place. It’s also known as Vietnam’s third city, because it’s more of an urban metropolis,…
The drive was quite loud and long from Ben Tre to Can Tho. There was lots of honking to swerve around other vehicles, and we ended up taking a crazy route whereby we had to even take a ferry with the car. We did…
By the time my last day of work came, it had been a whirlwind of a 2024 already. The weeks before Christmas flew by and before Victor and I knew it, we were in the Big Easy, New Orleans, to celebrate Christmas and the…
This post is Part V (the final part) in my blog post series on our road trip through the Peloponnese, a peninsula in southern Greece. This part of the road trip covers some amazing archaeological sites that are not located in the eastern half…
This post is Part IV in my blog post series on our road trip through the Peloponnese, a peninsula in southern Greece. This part of the road trip covers our time in the Mani, the central southern prong of the Peloponnese. Make sure you…