Kari on the move
 Kari's blog for work and leisure travel around the world. |
My latest 5 diary entries
| 14th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Going home and back to spending | ||||
| The journey home was smooth, but took almost 30 hours. Phu Quoc-Saigon-Bangkok-Amsterdam-Bergen is a bit of a journey. But when we lucked out with extra leg space seats between Bangkok and Amsterdam, all was good.... | ||||
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| 7th Nov 2009 - 13th Nov 2009 | ||||
| 7 days and 6 nights at Phu Quoc | ||||
| During the two busy weeks of touring Vietnam south to north with the group, it was nice to know that we'd be spending a week on Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island close to Cambodia in the south. So, we left Hanoi... | ||||
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| 6th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Last night with the group in Hanoi | ||||
| What appeared to become a slow and sleepy morning in Hanoi, arriving at the train station at 4:30 in the morning, suddenly became eventful when the fittest (probably, but also oldest) tour member tripped and... | ||||
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| 4th Nov 2009 - 5th Nov 2009 | ||||
| Fresh mountain air in Sapa | ||||
| Trains are not generally considered a good means of transport in Vietnam, but the soft sleeper train from Hanoi to Lao Cai is a good one. The majority of the passengers are tourists, both foreigners and Vietnamese... | ||||
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| 1st Nov 2009 - 3rd Nov 2009 | ||||
| From city frenzy to serenity on sea | ||||
| In the morning, we finished up the remaining sightseeing in Hue and afterwards Frode and I went to the DMZ bar to see if they had a memory card reader at their Internet cafe. No luck, though, so we just hung out ... | ||||
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