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Today I uploaded a selection of the pictures I made in Vietnam. You can find the pictures here: * Pictures in normal view * Pictures displayed on Google maps * Pictures in Google Earth

We arrived back at the train station early in the morning where we took a taxi back to Bamboo hotel, which unfortunately was closed. We waited for 45minutes before finally someone opened the front door. That day we went  to Hao Lao Prison: better known as “Hanoi Hilton”. Its original purpose was to function as [...]

Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, and with a population of around 7 million it is the second largest city. Hanoi was the last stop of our open-tour bus ticket. Our big bus dropped us off a bit outside of the old city center: big busses are not allowed in the old center. It was [...]

In the morning we had a normal bus to Hue –  the former imperial capital – which took about 5 hours. We got dropped in the backpacker-ish district on the south east of the Perfume river. Hue is best known for its historic monuments, which earned the city a place on the UNESCO World Heritage [...]

Hoi An is a city on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is home to approximately 120.000 inhabitants. In 1999, the old town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port of the 15th to 19th [...]

We took a normal bus covered by our open-tour ticket from Da Lat to Nha Trang at 7.15 am in the morning. I do not exactly know how long it took.. but it took longer than I expected. We had a useless long stop of 45 minutes at about 3/4th of the journey. 15 minutes [...]