From November 2013 until March 2014 we went to Vietnam,
with a side trip to Cambodia. In our travel diary, the
first posts are at the bottom, which is the way that
blogspot.com sets them out - a minor annoyance, but it's
too much trouble to rearrange them all so that the trip
proceeds from top to bottom. Here is where the
diary begins, at our
arrival in Ho Chi Minh City. In each entry
there are links to our photo albums and sometimes other
explanatory links. If you want to know more about
aspects of our experience, feel welcome to email me.
Definitely email me if you find broken links or errors I
should fix. I reviewed and repaired the diary
entries in 2021, armchair traveling during the pandemic
lock down, but I might have missed something.
We spent our
first two weeks in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, with a side
trip of eight days through the Mekong Delta into
Cambodia. In Cambodia we visited Phnom Penh and then
went to see the famed temples of Angkor Wat in Siem
Reap. Then we spent six weeks traveling the
length of Vietnam from south to north.
After experiencing Hanoi and Halong Bay, we decided to
choose the loveliest spot we'd seen, and spend our
remaining seven weeks there. Da Lat was a close
second choice, but we chose Nha Trang and filled most of
our time there teaching English as volunteers to a fun
group of eager students. We really enjoyed the
carefree little seaside city, the food, and the people.
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