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My trip from Hull heading eastwards. The aim is to reach Turkey overland, then into the 'Stans. Thence to India and further east. . After that who knows? But I'm not overplanning. Just going to see what happens. もっと詳しく

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Ninh Binh - exploring by scooter
2025年7月18日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 35 °C
Spent the morning exploring by scooter. Had to stop after a while because the sun was too strong and I was going bright red. But riding around the area it was beautiful. An earthly paradise. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see dinosaurs walking about.もっと詳しく
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Trang An - Boat trip
2025年7月17日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 35 °C
Rode on a scooter Trang An and took the boat trip into a kilometre long cave where you on occasion had to duck down to avoid the ceiling. Amazing. After that went to Mao An ? Cave and did the 450 steps to the dragon at the top. Way too hot for that! Am bright red now.もっと詳しく
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Trang An Mao Cave
2025年7月17日, ベトナム ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
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Halong Bay
2025年6月12日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
First entry for a while as I haven’t been doing very much in the way of travel recently. Today a day trip to Halong Bay. Got up for a 2.5 hour bus trip at 8.30. On the way a stop at a pearl making centre with lots of jewellery. So many of these day trips have a completely inappropriate stop at some kind of store. No back packer is going to be interested yet they persist. Anyway after that we continued the bus journey to the bay and then boarded a boat. About 30 of us on board I would say. Had lunch on the boat and admired the view. First stop was to one of the islands where you could either swim or climb to the top for the panorama. Did the latter as the beach was a little crowded and fancied a break from any form of exercise. Although the 400 steps to the top would probably count as exercise anyway! After that another trip in the boat to another island where the options were kayaking, boat or speedboat. Opted for the speed boat. Got to pretty fast round the islands. And then visit to yet another cave. Caves are great and Vietnam certainly has its share. Met some lovely fellow travellers zac & Gina from NZ, Morgan from Cambridge and Gloria & Skykar from Ireland & NY.もっと詳しく
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Halong Bay 3
2025年6月12日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
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Halong Bay 2
2025年6月12日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
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Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
2025年5月15日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Been working for the last few days so nothing interesting to report. Today went to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum with new friend Lizzie. No photos are allowed and you are in the actual mausoleum part for probably less than a minute. His mummified body is there on display. He looks very chilled. After that and a coffee went to the Hanoi Hilton prison museum. Very dark. Vietnam has an awful history. First the French then the Americans. But they seem so lacking in resentment and friendly. Maybe it’s the Buddhism.もっと詳しく
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Hanoi
2025年5月14日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Went on a walking tour from the hostel today. Very good tour led by Luna. Made new friend Doctor Lizzie.
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Hanoi - Lakeside
2025年5月3日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
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Hanoi Liverpool Supporters Club
2025年4月27日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Watching the Reds win the league. About time
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Hanoi
2025年4月19日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Seats in Vietnamese restaurants are very low. For a tall westerner like me you almost have to fall into them. 😂
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Hanoi
2025年4月18日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
I think this blog may be a little boring for a few days as I’m concentrating mainly on work for a while. I may use it for some pompous self-important thoughts instead. I hope that’s ok with anyone who’s daft enough to read it 🤦‍♂️Also I’ve just realised this face palm emoji looks just like Donald Trump.もっと詳しく
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Hanoi
2025年4月16日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Back to Hanoi form Bangkok. Never been on a plane that looks like this one did when I got on
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Hanoi
2025年4月16日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
So I was walking around Hanoi in the evening and I spotted this in the photo. I’m a little surprised that in a country that is nominally communist (economically it could not be less communist) this is allowed. Perhaps it isn’t?もっと詳しく
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Bangkok
2025年4月15日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Quick border run today as my Vietnamese visa expires tomorrow. So am in Bangkok now before returning to Hanoi tomorrow.
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Lao Cai
2025年4月14日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Just tried to do the visa run to China. The exit guard said no as I didn’t have a Chinese visa. I told him about the 10 day visa free transit scheme but he wasn’t having it. So I have to leave and re-enter by other means. Somewhat annoying. Now have to work out exactly how.もっと詳しく
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Lao Cao
2025年4月13日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Staying here tonight before doing a border / visa run tomorrow. Went for a little walk to try to find a bar to watch the footy. But instead I found myself with a new friend: Mon
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Hanoi / Train street
2025年4月12日〜14日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Arrived back in Hanoi. Now need to do something about my visa free access as my 45 days are nearly up. Best course of actions seems to be a border run.

Had an easy day today as yesterday was very tired. Spent the day doing the final leg of the Ha Giang loop and then got the bus back to Hanoi. I was at the front of the bus and my legs were too long to stretch out properly. So was stiff as anything by the time I arrived back.

Oh and of course I saw the famous train which runs between the shops.

Went for a burger in the evening. While I was sitting out under the canopy it started to rain. Quite heavily. So the burger bar provided me with a raincoat coat. For free That’s the first time I’ve come out of a restaurant with more clothes than I went in with.もっと詳しく
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Ha Giang loop day 3
2025年4月11日, ベトナム ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
More still photos

The videos I took on the loop are too long for this blog, so I've uploaded them to Youtube. Here's the link https://youtu.be/cjn0UNtQYf8
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Ha Giang Loop Day 2 /3
2025年4月10日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Still more photos

The videos I took on the loop are too long for this blog, so I've uploaded them to Youtube. Here's the link https://youtu.be/cjn0UNtQYf8
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Ha Goang Loop Day 2
2025年4月10日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Yet more photos

The videos I took on the loop are too long for this blog, so I've uploaded them to Youtube. Here's the link https://youtu.be/cjn0UNtQYf8
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Ha Giang Loop Day 1 /2
2025年4月10日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
More photos

The videos I took on the loop are too long for this blog, so I've uploaded them to Youtube. Here's the link https://youtu.be/cjn0UNtQYf8
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Ha Giang Loop
2025年4月9日〜12日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Riding the Ha Giang loop with Hoang as my Easy Rider. Three days riding through some of the most spectacular scenery I've ever seen in my life.

The videos I took on the loop are too long for this blog, so I've uploaded them to Youtube. Here's the link https://youtu.be/cjn0UNtQYf8もっと詳しく
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Hanoi
2025年4月7日〜8日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Arrived in Hanoi and got a grab taxi to the Luxury Hotel - yes that is its name and for £8 a night it was pretty luxurious. Relaxed on day 1 but also researched the Ha Giang loop and plan to go tomorrow via Eastern Gate Hostel as it has a lovely hostess and was recommended by Karl.

Also went to the water puppet theatre at the suggestion of an English mother and daughter couple I met in a restaurant. Worth a tripもっと詳しく
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Phong Nha - Paradise and Dark Cave 2
2025年4月4日, ベトナム ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
As ever I seem to be falling behind with these blog entries. I think it has something to do with being too tired after all the day's excitement. I resolve to do better in future. This was a lovely day. A tour from the hostel to Paradise Cave. This was truly enormous. Our guide said Vietnam has the first third and fourth biggest caves in the world. That statement is contentious as measuring the size of a cave is not straightforward. How do you compare one with a huge chamber like this, with one that is maybe a hundred miles long but really narrow? Anyway, I was blown away by the size. Truly immense. As I've said before I love a good cave. They are truly beautiful. After lunch went to the Dark Cave. You enter via a zipline (which autocorrect thinks should be a biplane - how are you supposed to enter a cave by biplane) and then have to swim a few meters. After that you walk deep into the cave - everyone just dressed in their bathers so somewhat odd and then about a kilometre in you get to have a mud bath. One of the more bizarre experiences. After that play in the water park: zip lines and slides.もっと詳しく
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