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A Tale of Two Tours: Part II, Khmer Village
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 1 March 2011
Duc had a prison-style dragon tattoo and a speech impediment, and he gave me the best goddamn tour I went on in Vietnam. I kept seeing him around town. My first morning, groggy-eyed drinking coffee at a corner cafe, I saw him sitting at a neighboring table. He was selling his tour services to another [...]
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A Tale of Two Tours: Part 1, Ba Chuc
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 28 February 2011
We were racing the sun. It was begining to glow orange, cut into pieces by the great green palm leaves. The Mekong Delta—the landscape of every Vietnam War movie I’d ever seen, where boat engines sounded like the echoes of helicopter blades. We were trying to get to Ba Chuc before the sun went down. [...]
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Saturday Night Fevered
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 27 February 2011
Long stalks of flowers and twisted plumes of incense burning. Nodding, bowing, chanting with their eyes closed. Trays of food—peeled fruit, shrink-wrapped cookie packages, an entire plucked chicken—held atop people’s heads as they murmur. Candles and coconuts, red glowing altars (to what, to what?).
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At home in Vietnam
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 28 May 2010
Vietnam. If you asked me why I wanted to come here so badly I could have given you a dozen answers. I’ve been literally obsessed with traveling through this country since I knew I’d be taking a year out to travel, and … Continue reading →At home in Vietnam is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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