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Vietnam Death Machine (Vietnam #1)
Here comes a land so different from my lovely ordinate Japan. Will I survive, or… There is a stark difference be Japan and Vietnam: Vietnam is chaotic, slightly polluted, speaks English. When I...
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The Turtle Life (Vietnam #2)
I am a turtle; though there seem to be endless quotes about how turtles only move when they stick they neck outs (in a failed attempt to suggest that one must be daring to achieve), all those people...
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Haircut in Saigon (Vietnam #3)
At times, travelling can be both exciting and tiresome. The constant hassle for money, the new, strange, foreign places, they can undoubtedly be overwhelming at times. Clearly, the lack of chocolate...
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Incense (Vietnam #4)
As I ponder in my eternal wisdom, I realise that I have seen sights and tasted morsels few other mortals perhaps had at my age. It’s not only that Vietnam has been quite different from Japan, the pace...
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Bankrupt Beaches (Vietnam #5)
We fly over mountains and rivers to rest our weary traveller feet on the beaches of Da Nang. Because, well, I dont think there’s anything much to do else. Sure, there seems to be a vast number of...
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And if I had a boat (Vietnam #6)
To quote Louise May Alcott, “resolve to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her”. Unless you are Vietnamese and then extend said quite to most living creatures, be they rats, banana...
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1960 Presidential Club (Vietnam #7)
It might be useful to mention that I do not think all traveling should be a sort of constant battle for life, of fencing with snakes and running for your life from a wild boar who you though would...
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Snakes on the Boat (Vietnam #8)
It was time to face the fury and grandness of nature in this daring adventure on the Mekong River! I had succumbed to accept one of those touristy trips down the Mekong River for half a day – it...
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Surviving Saigon
Whilst Japan and other first world countries are presumably easier to survive in (the risk of you dying is probably minimal), it’s time to delve into Southern Vietnam and see how we can try not to get...
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