Adventures for the wild hearted
Ha Long Bay was another unfortunate victim of my eager anticipations. I had wanted to travel around Southeast Asia for years, so I had a lot of ideas in my head of all the places I wanted to visit and how utterly amazing they would be. On more than on occasion, I felt destinations were …
At the end of the month, I got paid and managed to sell my bike. I left the teaching project in Hanoi and got a night bus up to Sapa. Sapa is a mountainous town famous for trekking and its terraced rice fields. The problem was, I was pretty strapped for time until my Vietnamese …
So after completing the motorbike ride from Ho Chi Minh to Hanoi, P and I went our separate ways. I was struggling to sell my bike on and quite frankly, was rather skint until pay day (the end of the month) or sale/transaction of said bike. I had a look on Workaway and was contacted by …
Whilst in Hanoi I found myself with a lack of internet connection at the hostel where I was staying and an article deadline looming ahead. My initial plan had been to camp out at Starbucks for the day, however, it turns out they provide you with a wifi code which expires after one hour. I …
Ah Hanoi, it was our final stop of the motorbike journey that started in Ho Chi Minh and spanned some 2,000km across the country. Among the chaos of desperately trying to sell our bikes and each form our own plans of what to do next, we took some time to go on the hostel's free …
Driving into Phong Nha was some of the most beautiful scenery I’d seen on our whole journey from Ho Chi Minh upwards. Lush green foliage sat densely on all sides of the road, as the sun was setting I caught glimpses of cattle and small wooden houses as we drove over rivers and through bright …
After visiting the imperial city in Huế , we spent the afternoon on a much more unique tour. We drove our bikes out to an abandoned half-constructed theme park. Driving along the broken up pavement, you first approach a gigantic structure protruding from the middle of a lake, a dragon’s head with a gaping snarling …
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Huế was formerly the imperial capital of Vietnam. Inside the Kinh thành (citadel) sits a walled city complex, housing several palaces, temples, courtyards and gardens from imperial rule. The building of the now UNESCO World Heritage site began in 1804, the last Vietnamese emperors still reigned there until the mid 1900s. However, the site did …
After a particularly long (and painful on the butt cheeks) drive, we pulled in to HộiAn as night fell. Hội An is particularly famous for its beautifully well-preserved old town - an eclectic mix of old faded yellow walls, trendy cafes, traditional architecture and temples dotted throughout the streets. Old colonial buildings blend into a …
Not dissimilar to the Maze Bar but on a larger scale, Hằng Nga guesthouse or more often referred to as the “Crazy House” is certainly unconventional, to say the least. Designed by a Vietnamese architect, the place is like some sort of warped Disneyland-esque adventure to wander around with strangely sculpted rooms, jutting towers and …
The Gypsy Heart Travels 