Marble Mountains From Đà Nẵng we set out for Hội An. After around 9 km by car we reached the so-called Marble Mountains. The Ngũ Hành Sơn, as they are called in Vietnam, are five wooded marble mountains whose peaks can be visited. We decided to climb the mountain Thủy...
Halong Bay By night train from Sa Pa we drove to Ha Noi and arrived at the railway station at 4 o’clock in the morning. A taxi took us in total darkness to our Travel Agency. From there we started our trip to Halong Bay around 8 a.m. We decided...
Tour to Sa Pa After three days in Ha Noi, we decided to make a trip to Sa Pa. Unfortunately it was not as easy as we had imagined. It is apparently not possible to travel there independently, because train tickets for sleeping compartments are fully booked a few days...
Today a warehouse with fireworks has exploded on the grounds of the My Dinh National Stadium at 11:30 a.m. Actually, they were created for the big firework celebrations of the 1000th anniversay of Hanoi on Sunday. Reportedly, there are four casualties and several injured persons. The cause of the explosion...
Flights to Vietnam during German summer vacation were quite expensive, so we chose an indirect flight with a stopover in Seoul, South Korea. And we would do it again at any time… Our accommodation, the Open Guest House, was a nice, well located hostel and we took a lot of...
Ich muss mich heute kurz fassen, denn die Internetverbindung ist extrem langsam und bricht zwischendurch oefter mal ab. Nach acht Tagen kreuz und quer durch das Mekong Delta sind wir heute auf der Halbinsel Hòn Chông, gut 30 Kilometer suedlich der Stadt Hà Tiên angekommen. Wir haben uns ein kleines...
Die erste laengere Busfahrt brachte mich nach Hue. Anstatt der angekuendigten 13,5 Stunden brauchten wir jedoch 17 Stunden. Das lag sicherlich auch daran, dass wir mindestens zehnmal stoppten, um Personen/Gepaeck aufzunehmen bzw. abzuladen. Entsprechend “zerknittert” fuehlte ich mich am Morgen nach der Fahrt im “Sleeping Bus”. In Hue angekommen checkte...
Summer has taken control of Hanoi. Since the middle of the month, there has been the biggest heat, for I do not know how many years. The thermometer climbes up to 40 degrees, every day. Even at night the thermometer still shows 30 degrees. Because the rain stayed away up...
Nha Trang with its 6 km long palmy city beach is also called the “Nice” of Vietnam and is the oldest seaside resort. For water sport fans an ideal place. Everywhere you can book Trips to the little outer Islands for snorkelling or diving. With approx. 350.000 inhabitants not a...
Hue, called “the old emperor city” is really not so old. It was built in 1802 as the capital of the kingdom and after the model of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Today are the relics of this emperor residence in the citadel and the surrounding emperor tombs one of...