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Pho Lessons
Blog: Ottsworld - 9 February 2012
Before I left Vietnam I had a goal – I wanted to learn how to make Pho. I had eaten it a few times a week for a year while living in Ho Chi Minh City, and I never tired of it. The thought of eating boiling hot soup in humid 90 degrees somehow appealed [...]
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Travel Vietnam
Blog: My Little Nomads - 31 January 2012
The Best Articles and Information on Traveling in Vietnam. Continue reading → Related Articles: Washington DC With Kids – The Best Things To Do Cheap Hotels In New York City
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A Foreign Christmas
Blog: Ottsworld - 21 December 2011
One of the most unusual sites I witnessed in my travels was experiencing Christmas in Asia. I had been living in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam for 3 months when December 25th rolled around. In a country with no real religion, and no westernized consumerism (yet), Vietnam surprised me with their Christmas spirit. Christmas in [...]
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Vietnam – Easy Riders and Sweet Spots in Charlietown
Blog: Vagobond.com - 9 December 2011
Finding cheap hotels and hostels and Vietnam is the easy part. The hard part is starting your trip around the world. Once you do that, just make sure you include Vietnam on your itinerary.
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Chapter 15
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 22 September 2011
Day 14 I had some good sleep regardless of the cast poking into my chest. Then Eric knocked on my …Continue reading »
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Chapter 6
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 27 August 2011
Finally found Pho (and a good one)!! The last day in HCMC for this leg of the adventure, we will …Continue reading »
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Chapter 5
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 23 August 2011
Hunting for the Elusive Pho! Oddly, I woke up at 4 AM and could not go back to sleep. So …Continue reading »
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Chapter 4
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 19 August 2011
Stories with Bananagrams and mystery Ice! I woke up with Eric and Ann dropping Vincent off at my room. Making …Continue reading »
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Chapter 3
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 17 August 2011
First day! I woke up at 6:30 am with a what the heck?? Why did I wake up when I …Continue reading »
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Chapter 2
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 14 August 2011
In Transit The anticipation woke me up at 4:30am on that Wednesday morning for my 11 am flight. I abide …Continue reading »
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El Mac: Saigon Street Art
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 21 June 2011
So here’s something cool I came across in my internet wanderings last week: a video of American street artist El Mac‘s piece he threw up in Saigon, “Kosom by the Mekong”: El Mac – Sai Gon, Viet Nam “Kosoom by the Mekong” from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo. Just, you know, when you [...]
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Where NOT to buy Cuban Cigars in Saigon
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 31 May 2011
My last night in Vietnam was to be coffee and Cuban cigars with a few friends. I’d heard that there was a top-scale stogie shop in District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, and after some searching and a few phone calls, I’d located it.
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The creature on the bridge
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 2 May 2011
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy. He saw the townlands and learned the minds of many distant men, and weathered many bitter nights and [...]
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A New Way of Thinking About Trash
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 11 April 2011
Some years ago an elfin man approached me as I walked along a boulevard in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He could see I was puzzled and wanted to help. What did I need? Holding out my handfull of trash, I pantomimed dumping it, then shrugged my shoulders and swept my hand in a semicircle [...]
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The Vietnam Conclusion
Blog: The Travel Project - 31 March 2011
A journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City that so many dream off and a journey that will remain with me for the rest of my life.
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All-New Filipino Con Artists in Saigon: The Pham Ngu Lao Gang
Blog: Fish Egg Tree - 27 March 2011
The Photos below are of well-known Filipino con artists who have been stalking tourists in Saigon for several years. This is the first time many of them have been photographed, however. These photos are taken from their regular morning gatherings in the part across from the intersection of Pham Ngu Lao and De Tham Streets in District 1, HCMC. Disturbingly, security guards are usually standing right next to them.
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Expensive, Bad and Popular: The Mystery of Highlands Coffee
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 26 February 2011
It was gonna be bad. And not just bad—cheesy, inauthentic and fuck-all expensive. And yet I felt that sneaky smile, that oh-God-I-hope-no-one-sees-me sensation. I let myself get sucked into the air-conditioned arms of Highlands Coffee. It’s the Starbucks of Saigon, and morbid curiousity led me to do it—the same cringing magnetism that inspired me to [...]
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Saigon’s Secret Cities
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 26 February 2011
It seemed like LA to me: glitzy buildings, endless traffic, neon lights reflecting off the hoods of gleaming cars. After two weeks in Vietnam, Saigon’s wide roads and rows of Western shops, its construction cranes turning this way, that way, like slow skeletal animals—it all seemed terribly wealthy to me. And even more than Hanoi, [...]
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Tet Flower Street 2011
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 6 February 2011
Tet, the Lunar New Year, just doesn’t get any better than in Ho Chi Minh City. Every house and every shop and every big building is embellished in red and gold, with flowers and plants and decorations out front and on windows and doors.
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Strange Rabbits & A Flower Market
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 2 February 2011
The Vietnamese and Chinese New Year begins the evening of February 2nd. Before leaving the US, I made sure I knew exactly what year on the animal wheel it would be so that I wouldn’t appear stupid. I found out that it would be the Year of the Rabbit.
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Changes
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 28 January 2011
Jan 2011There are always changes when one returns to a place after several years.
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A Museum & Artists
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 24 January 2011
The combination of Colonial French Architecture, cool interiors, and marvelous artwork makes the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts a lovely retreat from the chaos that surrounds it.
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Lady in Ho Chi Minh City
Blog: A Lady in London - 18 January 2011
After almost three weeks of traveling in Asia, exhaustion started to overtake me. I had been to three countries—one of them three times—and had not spent more than three nights in any one place. But I still had another destination on my itinerary before my trip was over: Ho Chi Minh City. At first I [...]
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Ho Chi Minh City – The Remnants of War
Blog: The Travel Project - 3 January 2011
A sobering day in Ho Chi Minh City visiting the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum. Related posts:Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh by Train The Contrasts of Hue Steady on Hanoi
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Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh by Train
Blog: The Travel Project - 1 January 2011
Our train ride from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City. A tale of feet, chaos and craziness.Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh by Train is a post from:
