Archive for the ‘Vietnam’ Category

Destination Tip: Halong Bay, Vietnam

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Learn more about Halong Bay, Vietnam’s biggest tourist attraction. A beautiful bay with a slow pace and a cheap touring price.

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The Cow in Hanoi, Vietnam

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The cow in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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From Saigon to Hanoi: A Train Trip Across Vietnam (Photos)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

A photo gallery of a train trip from Saigon to Hanoi.

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In This Picture: in Da Nang, Vietnam

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

On board a passenger train I took from Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam headed north, we met Nguyen and his son Pak. The two shared a train cabin with us and we shared a little stuffed animal and some of our snacks.
Although they didn’t speak much English, Nguyen knew a few words from his […]

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What It’s Like: To Fire A Machine Gun In Vietnam

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The next in a series of raw, mostly unedited videos called “What It’s Like.” This one from near Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.

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My Tour of Duty In Vietnam

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

In the spring of 1971, my American father received a phone call from the US Military informing him he’d soon be drafted for a tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Thirty-five years later, I entered Vietnam with a backpack in a dust covered bus with a cracked windshield, and willingly paid money to crawl through the underground guerrilla tunnels that slithered beneath the dense foliage of the Vietnamese jungle; tunnels that most from my father’s generation would have paid large sums of money to never see.

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