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We left Nghia Lo at around 9am today. Hoang warned us, once again, that we would experience ‘very simple life’. I think he is worried that we will be disappointed at the hotels, food, towns and what have you. He also mentioned that we were a very rare species in this part of Vietnam, as [...]

Pick-up at the hotel was at 8:30. By that time, we had to eat breakfast, pack and get to the lobby. Not that they would have left without us. You see, we were very privelaged and had a private tour, so just our driver Manh, our guide Hoang, my dad and yours truly. After throwing [...]

The horrible sound of an alarm clock woke me at 6am. Thanks to the “Symphony of Horns“, I realized quickly that I was waking up in Hanoi. By 6:30, my dad and I hit the streets of the old quarter. From our lodging at the Viet Hotel on Hang Than (Hang=Street), we meandered along Dong [...]

We left from Zurich in the evening, treating ourselves to business class seats for the long trip to Bangkok. Good god I work for an airline, that makes that part affordable. Hopping off the plane in Bangkok, the heat and humidity almost knocked us back into the SWISS A340-300. The flight was quiet and smooth; [...]

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be blogging about my recent trip to northern Vietnam. I will bring you day by day reports and illustrate them with a few photographs. Unlike most of my previous blogs, I won’t be doing this one in german and english, I’ll be sticking to english for the sake of [...]