When you fly international, you’re in for some fun surprises right now. It’s not as easy as arriving 2 hours early any longer. In the 6 months we were in Vietnam, we had a total of 6 flights (to Osaka, Tbilisi, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Munich & Chiang Mai) cancelled. As such, I’ve been preaching Agility; the…
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,…
Once again, Eva and I are here to debrief the latest city we visited. We spent 6 weeks in Dalat living in an apartment complex about a mile from downtown. What was the most surprising thing about Dalat? Ev: TTC World. The photo opportunities. We just stumbled upon it while visiting the [XQ Dalat] Historical…
I’m realizing now that I’ve barely written anything about Dalat, and it was amazing. First, Vietnam still has 0 COVID deaths. ZERO! Then we found this great little town, very few Anglo tourists, super green, very cool climate… around 70F every day. It’s a little rainy and traffic’s still a mess, but we loved it….
Here we go! Debrief #2, giving you our thoughts about staying in Da Nang from March 13th until June 15th, 2020. What was the most surprising thing about Da Nang? Eva: I didn’t think we would find any supermarkets at all. Although it wasn’t super-easy to find westernized products, it was relatively painless to get…
Greetings from Dalat, Vietnam! Looking forward to telling you all about it, but first… how we got here. Since our last post, our flights to Frankfurt had been cancelled and unfortunately, we had booked a flight to Croatia separately. I spent hours online and on the phone with Chase Travel trying to find resolution and…
