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Cool. Did you find the trip as a whole qualified as "extremely cheap", "cheap", "worth it", or...
When I went: Cheap and worth it.
I got Air Asia tickets for $120. (Now much more.) Hotel in Hanoi near lake $18. Hotel in Ha Long Bay (4 Star) $55. Boat trip and round trip to/from Hanoi. ($100? including over night on boat or in CatBa Island)
I will PM you with the details of my trip and an inbound travel agent that arranged everything for me (and it was TET so not an easy thing to do.) Matthew, when I get the name and location of the jungle hotel in Jantaburi. LOL
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Nice one. Did the birds in their distinctive and graceful ao dai give you the fuckin' horn?
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Re: Hanoi and Halong Bay, July '08
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"cheap", "worth it",
Cheap and definitely worth it. It's cheaper than Thailand in some regards. A three day trip to Halong bay all food and accommodation included was $48.
Don't want to start some raging debate and I'm not having a go but I'd definitely recommend Americans to visit in particular. The whole image of the place we have in our heads comes into sharp relief, due to all the films and tv we've seen of it.
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Did the birds in their distinctive and graceful ao dai give you the fuckin' horn?
I'd get up on a cracked plate mate. A bumby bus journey gives me the horn.
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Re: Hanoi and Halong Bay, July '08
The Maison Centrale was last on our tourist trail. Also known as the Hanoi Hilton. The Frogs built it I believe and the Vietnamese used it to keep POWs.
It's where John McCain was kept.
They have his flight suit on display.
He wasn't quite as tubby then.
Of course all the photos show the POWs having a great time, in good spirits, getting looked after, treated humanely, etc. etc.
The building's not that spectacular but here's a guy painting the walls of it anyway.
The part about the building's history when the French ran it is a tale of the vicious colonial oppressors and the courageous political prisoners, etc. etc. In stark contrast to the pics of the American POWs decorating Christmas trees, reading and playing basketball, laughing and generally having a grand old time. Very simplistic propaganda. Even more so than our nationalist history sites in Ireland!!
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You can just read the caption underneath. These heads belonged to "patriotic soldiers".
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Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
I went to Vietnam once. Stayed at The Continental and The Rex, bought some t-shirts, got wrecked on 333 beer, rode around on the back of a Foster beer girl's bike, got wanked off buy a masseuse and ate some pho. Good trip.
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