Tag: Asia
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Bye bye, Mumbai!
06:00 pm The ship departs punctually and a glowing red sun bids us farewell from Mumbai, the city of the beautiful bay. The name “Bom Bahía” was once given to Mumbai by the Portuguese sailors, and with the reign of the English it eventually became Bombay, we are told. Since the beginning of the 1990s,…
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New Year’s Eve – no fireworks in the Indian Ocean
09:30 am (Mumbai time zone) The last day of the year has dawned and once again time was stolen from us overnight. This time it was only half an hour, but before that it was a full 60 minutes. To adapt us to the time zone of Mumbai, this is certainly useful in stages. One…
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The return to Hanoi
Sapa – Hanoi Before we say goodbye to this absolutely stunning part of Vietnam we dare to get on the bikes, again. Starting at 09:30 am, this third tour of ours lasts 2 hours. Again, we have the opportunity to gain even new sights of the country, and see it from a different perspective. On…
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Frontier Land: A visit to Sapa and the highlands
Hanoi – Sapa Our transfer to Sapa came with the hotel reservation. There are other options to get to this quite remote place close to the Chinese border, all of which take longer. We wanted to make the most of it and enjoy the next days to the fullest, so we are quite lucky to…
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The sound of traffic or “How to cross a Vietnamese street”
06:00 am, we are woken up by the sounds of traffic, the unavoidable horns, people bustling around, already busy with their businesses: preparing food to sell, transporting huge cupboards on tiny scooters, chit-chatting and more. Don’t mistakenly take it for chaos. You need to stop, take it in fully and just watch from a distance…
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Arriving in Hanoi: About the Old Town, Pho and Hoan Kiem Lake
Hue – Hanoi The plane that takes us to Hanoi, the big metropolis of the North, arrives after only 55 minutes. Again, they are super-fast with the luggage. Vietnamese efficiency. After only ten minutes we are looking for a taxi, our luggage at hand. We approache a probably French guy who is waiting next to…
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Hue, the Imperial City
Hue The highlight by night is the illuminated bridge across the Perfume River, connecting the Southern, contemporary part of the city with the Northern part where the remains of the Emperor’s city are situated. As we’re about to leave the city for Hanoi tonight we were lucky to have watched the bridge change colors yesterday…
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Hue today – sights of a Vietnamese city
Hue We arrive in the old emperor’s city by train in the early afternoon and take a taxi to our hotel. The place is neat and cozy, the staff super-friendly and it costs us about USD 30 per night. An obligatory visit for me, we are going to the town’s market. It is huge and…
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Vietnam’s beautiful cost line – a train trip
car 1, seats 35 & 36 on the train from Da Nang to Hue 11 o’clock, our shuttle to the train station in Da Nang arrives and takes us to Ga Da Nang – “ga” probably comes from the French word “gare” for train station. We need about half an hour to get there and…
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Lazy beach life
Hoi An After a little bit of shopping (authentic Gucci toe socks to wear with flip flops) we checked out and called a taxi to get us to the beach resort we booked yesterday. The weather is perfect, the beach sandy and waves are perfect. Not many people dare to swim so we indulge in…