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Day 137 – Hanoi
Goodbye to the parents 🙁 Today, we all got on a taxi from Rising Dragon Palace Hotel to Hanoi International Airport and said good bye to our parents. It felt quiet after the parents were gone. We took Bus 86 back from the airport to the city centre, which cost 35,000 VND / $2.11 AUD […]
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Day 136 – Hanoi
Full day exploring the vibrant capital Today we decided to explore the capital starting by walking from the Rising Dragon Palace Hotel to Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum. The streets were pretty empty in the morning. On weekends the mausoleum closes at 11am. Once we got there, it was close to 11, but we saw a […]
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Day 135 – Halong Bay to Hanoi
A glorious day between limestone islands Today we woke up on the Apricot Premium Cruise ship to clear skies over Halong Bay. We were expecting fog like yesterday, but we were thankful for the change in weather. The water looked so clear that we could see limestone islands all around. It was beautiful. After breakfast, […]
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Day 134 – Hanoi to Halong Bay
Incredible cruise in Halong Bay Today we left Hanoi Old Town Palace Guest House, in the morning in a van to Halong Bay. The journey took over an hour, and like the tour to Ba Na Hills (Day 129), we had a stop over at a large souvenir shop for around 20 minutes. We arrived […]
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Day 133 – Hanoi
Exploring the Capital of Vietnam with the fam The sleeper bus arrived in Hanoi, in the wee hours of the morning. We got off the bus and had to get our bearings right before we headed towards Hanoi Old Town Palace Guest House. It was around 5am in the morning, and we were surprised at […]
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Day 132 – Hue to Hanoi
From the Imperial City to sleeper buses Today we checked out of Shark Hostel and walked to the Imperial City again. We bought tickets to see the Hoang Cung (Royal Palace) for 150,000 VND / $9.14 AUD per person. We were impressed with the reusable plastic tickets that you just slot into a ticket machine […]
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Day 131 – Hue
Walking around the ancient capital of Hue Happy New Year!!! (Will catch up…eventually) Today we woke up early, and had breakfast at the Shark Hostel, but we took forever to get ready. By the time, we were ready, it was well past lunch time. Oooops. We ended up buying some bus tickets for tomorrow and […]
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Day 130 – Da Nang to Hue
Train Journey via the Vietnamese Coast on NYE Today we left Danang Seawind Beach Hotel and ordered a Grab (uber like app) to take us to Da Nang Train Station (85,000 VND / $5.18 AUD). We went past another landmark, which is the Dragon Bridge. As the name suggests, this massive bridge has been constructed […]
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Day 129 – Da Nang
Exploring the amazing Ba Na Hills Today we woke up at Danang Seawind Beach Hotel and went to have breakfast at 7am, which we had ordered the previous night. At 7.45am our food was ready, as there was only one staff member making all the meals for everyone. We had just 5 minutes to eat, […]
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Day 128 – Hoi An to Da Nang
My Son Ancient Site and Marble Mountain Today we left on a half day tour of My Son, which was organised from Hoi An Merrily Homestay. The tour cost 250,000 VND / $15.21 AUD per person, which included transport and a guide. We had to pay a further 150,000 VND / $9.13 AUD per person […]
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Day 127 – Hoi An
Full day exploring Hoi An’s Old Town Today we walked back towards the Old Town with the tickets we bought yesterday from the Information Centre. We ended up asking the host at Merrily Homestay for recommendations on which of the 5 sites to see out of the many options. The first place we saw was […]
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Day 126 – Hoi An
Briefly exploring the Old Town Hoi An After getting dropped of by the sleeper bus early in the morning, we walked toward our accommodation, Hoi An Merrily Homestay. The gate was locked. We had told the homestay that we would be there early and they had told us we could leave our bags there. We […]
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Day 125 – Dalat to Hoi An
Experienced our first night bus Today we had to check out from Tigon Dalat Hostel. We packed our bags and had a few hours until our bus. We decided to head into town and explore the area surrounding the Ho Xuan Huong Lake area again. While at the decorated Hasfarm Roundabout we witnessed a motor […]
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Day 124 – Dalat
Full day around Dalat on a motorbike tour Merry Christmas!!! (yup the blog is only 3 months behind now) Today we started a tour with Mr. Cong Fantasy Tour. We had signed up for the 1 Waterfall Tour for $30 per person. He charged us 1,400,000 VND / $84.83 AUD / $60.27 USD for two […]
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Day 123 – Dalat
Walking around Dalat As we ate breakfast at Tigon Dalat Hostel, we met a tour guide, Mr Cong. We ended up booking a tour with him for tomorrow, which is Christmas, as we suspected that it may be hard to find tours. Today we left our single beds in the attic and were moved to […]
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