Vietnam Diaries: The heat is on in Saigon
I’m in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. I arrived yesterday, 35 minutes after midnight, and I’m leaving the city tomorrow afternoon.
It’s my first time in Vietnam and so far, I’m loving it. I’m loving the food an awful lot, though I seem to be the only one not enamored with the ban...
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[Filipina on Flip Flops] A Series of Snapshots: Staying Afloat in Asia
Anyone who’s ever traveled around Asia knows that life in this continent is often closely intertwined to and, in more ways than one, largely dependent on the numerous bodies of water that surround, run through and sometimes connect its many countries. For someone like me who lives in an archipelago like the Philippines and who’s fortunate enough to be able to explore its many islands, I’ve often observed this firsthand. I’ve seen the same thing in my travels in other countries in Asia as well – the importance of the sea, the river, or the ocean in everyday life, for everyday people to be able to survive.
Here are a few pictures I took from some of my travels that capture glimpses of the lives these people lead, in their everyday attempt to, quite literally and figuratively, stay afloat.
[Filipina on Flip Flops] A Series of Snapshots: Staying Afloat in Asia
Anyone who’s ever traveled around Asia knows that life in this continent is often closely intertwined to and, in more ways than one, largely dependent on the numerous bodies of water that surround, run through and sometimes connect its many countries. For someone like me who lives in an archipelago...
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Hanoi’s Bustling Old Quarters
Hanoi seems to be the tourism center of Vietnam, maybe because of it’s proximity to Sapa and Halong Bay. The city is loaded with rich history and tourist facilities that cater to different kinds of travelers. My adventure in Hanoi started when I arrived from an arduous overland crossing from Laos which I mentioned in my previous blog, “Border Crossing: From Laos to Vietnam”.
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Hanoi’s Bustling Old Quarters
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Halong Bay on the Cheap
Halong Bay has been on my list ever since I became a traveler. However, I was really hesitant to go there especially after knowing that Halong Bay is on the top list of the New Seven Wonders of the World poll. I was thinking that I may not be able to afford it.
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Halong Bay on the Cheap
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Filipina on Flip Flops Goes to Hoi An, Vietnam
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…In all honesty, to get how amazing Hoi An is, you have to be there and experience it for yourself, preferably with friends you love (a significant other will do, too!) who are travelling with you not to be able to get their pictures taken in as many tourist destinations as possible, but who are there to just live for the moment and enjoy it; to spend time strolling leisurely, gelato in hand, admiring the tiny stores and the little trinkets of things that they sold, smiling at strangers from different parts of the world. I hate to sound like a sappy romantic, but what can I say, memories of Hoi An bring that out in me.
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Filipina on Flip Flops in Siem Reap, Cambodia (Day 1)
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There it was, the temple complex of Angkor Wat, its “beehive” towers standing ever so proudly yet solemnly in the middle of the forest of Siem Reap, as it has done so for centuries. Other than how immense it was, I was taken by its location, hidden deep in the woods, forgotten and untouched, its existence unknown to the outside world for years and years. I wondered what it must’ve felt like for the French explorer who re-discovered Angkor in the 1800s, to have found all that grandeur and to have undoubtedly been flabbergasted by the staggering thought that a place as massive and as beautiful as that could’ve been forgotten almost entirely by civilization. And while Angkor Wat and the rest of Cambodia’s temples are now renowned all over the world and are visited by crowds of tourists each year, on that quiet, wet and gloomy Sunday morning, standing on the bridge towards its entrance, I couldn’t help but feel incredibly fortunate to have been part of, and to have seen for myself, the “hidden” magnificence that is Angkor Wat.
