Eva and I spent 4 weeks in Ha Long at the most amazing BnB. I feel like this debrief is influenced largely by my one complaint, but it was, I feel, justified as it was an every day problem. That said, I don’t want to dissuade anybody from visiting because it is one of the…
Cat Ba is the largest island in Ha Long Bay, where we’ve been the past 3 weeks. Evalynn and I decided we wanted to visit for two reasons. It has a National Forest and we haven’t experienced enough nature in Vietnam. Also, we really wanted to spend some time on the water, cruising among the…
Over the past 2 months, Eva and I have been hopping around the country, exploring new cities and learning more about ourselves and Vietnam in general. We had been told in Dalat that we needed to go to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) to get our Visa renewed again and then decided to move to…
We spent 3 weeks in Saigon, working out our Visa extension. In this post we discuss what worked, what didn’t and what we learned. During our stay, we spent two weeks in the Bến Thành, the backpackers/walking street/bar area, and one more week across the river in the Phường 12 area, which had a flower…
Surrendering your passport to a stranger in a foreign country is an uneasy feeling. But, if you choose to extend your stay in Vietnam legally, there is little choice in the matter. Coming into Vietnam, there aren’t options for tourist Visas for greater than 30 days. Even that process was suspect. Go to a foreign,…
