Overland Arranged When you’re traveling around in southeast Asia, there is a possibility that you will go overland from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. You can do that two ways. One way to do it is with a bus company like Mekong Express. They charge …
Kiwi.com promises When you are looking to book a flight online, you will often see Kiwi.com passing by on your screen. Their promises make it an attractive option to choose. Transfer cover is one important promise made by them. It will definitely get you over your doubts of missing your …
Thangka paintings Thangka paintings are Buddhist paintings, or Buddhist art you can call it too. Illustrations of Buddha and other deities and gods are painted on specific undergrounds like cotton and silk. Usually it’s a loose woven cotton on which the illustrations are painted. The size of thangkas vary. There …
Buddha Birthday Buddha Purnima and Buddha Jayanthi are two different terms for the same happening, the birth anniversary of Lord Buddha. This auspicious day has several names for it. Beside Buddha Purnima and Buddha Jayanthi it is also called Saga Dawa, Vesak, Vaisakh Purnima, and many more names in different …
Ha Long Bay Location One of the wonderful places to visit in Vietnam is Ha Long Bay. Vietnamese write the words separate, like Ha Noi, Sai Gon and Viet Nam. It doesn’t matter how you write it, everyone knows what you mean if you write and say it as one …
Rules of Hotels & Apartments in Vietnam Some of the most strange things in Vietnam are related to hotels and apartments. They have this obsession with your passport. If you don’t hand over your passport, there will be a big chance they won’t let you stay. If you’re lucky, they accept …
Visa run to Moc Bai border Vietnam In another post there is info about visas for Vietnam. Here more about the infamous border run or Visa run to Moc Bai border Vietnam. When you have a three months tourist visa and it is going to expire while you are in …
One of the biggest tourist attractions within the city of Hanoi is the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. Ho Chi Minh was the big man behind the independence and reunification of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh is called ‘uncle’ or ‘uncle Ho’ by the Vietnamese people. Officially it is still not allowed …
Hoa Lu Combined with the Tam Coc – Ninh Binh boat tour, of which more in another post, is the tour to Hoa Lu. As soon as you have finished the boat tour, you will be brought by bus to Hoa Lu, the first capital of Vietnam. To be more …
Tourist bus When living in Asia, or travelling in Asia, you will always have some adventurous journeys instead of luxury ones. So is the tourist bus between Vientiane and Hanoi. A ticket for the daily tourist bus might look cheap and a good alternative for flying. The price being charged …