Travellers are often asked what their favourite city is, so I have been thinking about my response to that question. It has taken a while to compile this list as my favourite city can change
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How to Avoid Saigon’s Rip-Off Taxis: A Comprehensive Guide
Whenever anybody asks me for advice about an upcoming visit to Saigon I always start with the same tip: be careful which taxi you choose to get in. "Never take a taxi from directly outside
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How to do Saigon (even more) Cheaply!
Brooke vs. the World has asked travel bloggers to put together their best thrifty and resourceful travel tips for a helpful, free ebook. If you think you’re thrifty and would like to participate, check out
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Top 3 Beaches in Vietnam
When most people think about travelling to an exotic beach, Thailand is often high up on their wish-list. But did you know that next-door Vietnam has some equally spectacular beaches to rival many of those
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My Saigon Ink
Getting a tattoo while travelling. Great souvenir or terrible mistake? Personally I think that it is a great idea and I had one done while I was in Vietnam. The downside of travelling for prolonged
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The Working Women of Vietnam
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman. Especially in Vietnam. Street Seller Ferrying tourists down the Mekong Selling freshly made juice Collecting Garbage Washing laundry in the lotus pond Bringing home the groceries - most
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Read Your Way Around The World
Travel books don’t necessarily have to be books written by travellers, most of the books that have inspired me to travel are novels in which the setting is important to the atmosphere of the book.
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Miss(ing) Saigon
I was inspired by a post about Saigon that I read on another travel blog recently. So here is my very own tribute to the place that I once called home. These are some of
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Don’t Stop BIS-lieving!
This is my tribute to my friends at BIS, the school I worked in during my time in Vietnam. It's good to remember the fun times :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NULMiA9z8U
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Beating the January Blues
Christmas is over, the New Year's resolutions have already been broken, and the beautifully glistening snow had turned to brown mulch - January has well and truly set in but things are not all bad.
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