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Sapa Adventure

A Guide to Hiking and Trekking

Hiking and trekking - tips and tricks from a professional.

Vietnam Bobby King

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A Guide to the Guidebooks

A trip to Vietnam requires all sorts of preparation from visas to airline tickets. One of the mos...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Four Years Later

Four Years Later

I was in Khanh Hoa this summer after four years.The changes are pretty impressive in that time. T...

Vietnam Malcolm Arthur

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Vietnam adventure travel: Pu Luong Nature Reserve

Pu Luong proposed nature reserve is located in Quan Hoa and Ba Thuoc districts, in north-western ...

Vietnam Bobby King

The Road Less Travelled

The driver of our longtail boat cut the engine, pointed at our backpacks and then at the building...

Vietnam / Cambodia Danyael Halprin

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Motorbike races, Vietnam style

Should you be walking around the streets of Vietnam's major cities late at night, don't be surpri...

Vietnam AFP/Le Thang Long

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From Both Sides Now

I am not sure if the Vietnamese people see me more as an American than a Vietnamese. When I was p...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

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A Passport-sized Value: Lonely Planet's Vietnamese Phrasebook

One of the truisms of travel is that no matter how many languages you speak, eventually you'll en...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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All That Glitters

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. - H.L. Mencken Chances are you would be fo...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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French Colonial Ship Raised in Vietnam

HANOI, March 9, 2006 - A Vietnamese company has raised a small French military vessel sunk during...

Vietnam AFP

A story told with photos.

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

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Your Gateway to the City: Sketches for a Portrait of Hanoi

Rarely have I encountered a book cover as symbolic as the one adorning Sketches for a Portrait of...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Sign

A Journey to Dien Bien Phu

"Bonjour, Monsieur." Stepping across the threshold of Voi Phuc Temple, the elderly man&...

Vietnam Michael McKittrick

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Lonely Planet's Travel Atlas Series

Travelers love maps, and I am no exception. For obvious reasons, travelers also need maps and ten...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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Looking out the window.

May, 2000. I am flying into Saigon from Thailand. Looking out the window as we land I see the old...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

A trained masseurs giving an oil massage at a "ghat" (platform constructed on the river bank) in Varanasi. These masseurs ply their trade at "ghats" in religious places, where people throng to worship in the river, a custom that has been prevalent for centuries. These masseurs, it is believed, can cure all kinds of aches, pains and minor ailments.

Photo of the Day Archive for September 2005

Photo of the Day Archive for September 2005

Vietnam Albert Wen

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Postcards and Stamps!

Ho Chi Minh City. My first day back in Vietnam after more than thirty years. A bus takes us to ou...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Speaking from the heart.

During my first trip back to Vietnam I was talking to a Vietnamese man. He told me he was speakin...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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General The Man in Seat 61 . Train travel and schedules for most countries of Asia (and the world...

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Photo of the Day Archive for May 2005

Photo of the Day Archive for May 2005

Vietnam Albert Wen

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