WE MADE IT JUST IN TIME FOR CAMBODIA’S WATER FESTIVAL! We’ve found land border crossings can be quite entertaining* – when crossing from Kenya to Tanzania at Namanga, for example, the “border” was a rusty gate we just walked around and when we paid for our Tanzania visas […]
SEEING A DIFFERENT SIDE OF SAIGON Our sightseeing in Saigon (i.e. Ho Chi Minh City) yesterday took us around District 1, the historical heart of the city and one of its most affluent. Today we took a cyclo (i.e. pedicab) tour out to District 5 to see a […]
CROSSING THE STREET IN SAIGON With over 9 million people crowding the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (i.e. Saigon), there’s a certain amount of chaos to be expected. Most of this chaos comes in the form of motorbikes and scooters. Like everywhere we’ve been in Vietnam, motorbikes […]