Above:  Downtown Dalat.  It was either a 0630 bus or a 1230 one from Mui Ne to Dalat. That proved to be an easy decision for the latter. It turned out to be a door-to-door service like the last bus; we were picked up outside our hotel around 1300 as the bus had to do […]

I had allowed one day too many in Mui Ne.  Doesn’t matter.  It’s time for a real holiday after being “on the go” for so much over the last two months.  Sleep in, eat, massage, eat …  

We have two full days here in Mui Ne. It seemed like a good idea to dedicate one day for nothing (tomorrow) and make use of today’s good weather for exploring. We rented a motorbike and rode out to the white sand dunes up the coast and also the red ones. We then backtracked down […]

Tourism in Vietnam is very well organised and customer-focused; we didn’t have to go to some station to catch our bus to Mui Ne. Buses leave from outside various hotels and travel agencies in the backpacker district. The journey to Mui Ne took less than 5 hours, the first half of which was crawling in […]

As it was our third visit to Saigon, we weren’t under pressure to do sightseeing.  And that makes it so much easier to just absorb the atmosphere.  

Above: Tumuli Park (burial mounds) by night at Gyeongju. I flew to Daegu today at 1530, flying with Asiana Airlines again.  Upon arrival an hour later, I took a taxi to its city centre for an hour-long bus ride to neighbouring Gyeongju. Gyeongju is referred to as a museum without walls because it is home […]

Impressive Marina Sands We had a reasonably early start in Ho Chi Minh to make the 0910 Tiger Airways flight to Singapore. With an hour time difference, we landed just after midday and taxied to the Geylang red light district to check into our budget hotel, Hotel 81. Without much ado, we made our way […]