Our Apartment Accommodation(s) Yes, we finally had real apartments and oh, did we need this downtime more than we thought. It only took one night in our super quiet(!) and cozy apartment to know we were gonna like Hanoi. Our first of two apartments $26/night on Booking was on the south end of Tây Ho, or West Lake and we were…
Getting There & Our Accommodation: Taipei ➡ Ho Chi Minh ➡ Phu Quoc GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!! 🇻🇳 It took us four years and one pandemic, but we finally made it on March 2, 2024 and..wow, are we were so very elated to be there as we already knew we were gonna love it! It was time to learn hello (Xin…
Making our Way to Ho Chi Minh After two weeks of getting sand in crevices and gallivanting a tropical island, we feel reinvigorated to begin our 1025-mile overland adventure of traversing the length of Vietnam! And we started by heading to Saigon, today also known as Ho Chi Minh City since 1975. The day began bright and early with a 1.5…
After three days in Ho Chi Minh City, we were more than ready to replace the cacophony of horns and motorbikes with nature’s symphony, so we took a local bus 4.5 hours north to Cat Tien National Park. It is a large area of protected lowland tropical forests whose floral and fauna diversity has been recognized by the World Wildlife…
Arriving to Da Lat From Cat Tien National Park, we boarded another local bus north four hours to the cooler mountain town of Da’Lat for a week. Da Lat is most famous for its wide variety of flowers, vegetables and fruit harvested from its surrounding farmlands. During the war, this town also became a resort destination far from the bombing…
Exploring Doc Let Beach From Da Lat, it was time to drop off the mountains to the stew pot of record topping heat and humidity below. While we could have high-tailed it to the tourist havens of Hoi An or Hue to make things “easy,” we wanted the opportunity to immerse ourselves in an authentic Vietnamese sea village first for…
First we wrote this: "We made it through after three winters in 2023! Yes, today we bid farewell to several layers of winter clothes because, as we head toward the Tropic of Cancer, we don’t plan on seeing winter for a very, very, very long time. To fly four hours southwest across the East China Sea, we used a Jetstar flight…
The Sights Jioufen is hardly an off the beaten path destination while touring Taiwan, but with its proximity to Taipei, ample hiking opportunities, its promise of old world charm and the coincidental placement of it during a significant Taiwanese event made it an obvious choice for us. The seductively ramshackled village dotted with crimson lanterns, meandering alleyways and loads of sights…
