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Where I’m At: October, 2020 – Saigon edition

October 1, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Greetings from Saigon! Here is the October 2020 edition of Where I’m At – my monthly summary of where I’ve been and site news. I haven’t been blogging much here lately, but I still publish a weekly travel newsletter with updates not featured on the blog. The newsletter includes a round up of the best […]

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Hanoi beyond Hoan Kiem – how the metro will open up the city outside the old quarter

September 16, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Hanoi is a city of over 8 million people that is composed of 12 urban districts, 1 district-level town, and 17 rural districts. Most visitors – including myself – stay in the old quarter in Hoan Kiem district, and visit Ba Dinh District (the political and cultural heart of Vietnam). With a new metro system […]

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Where I’m At: September, 2020 – Saigon edition

September 1, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Greetings from Saigon and another edition of Where I’m At – my monthly summary of where I’ve been and site news. Subscribe to my weekly travel newsletter for more updates not featured on the blog, which includes a round up of the best travel reads of the week. Where I’ve been (or not) View this […]

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Notes on Ninh Binh – an abandoned backpacker street and the mega mansions that look like cathedrals

August 28, 2020 By James Clark 4 Comments

After visiting the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex (the main attraction of Ninh Binh) I visited Ninh Binh City. I had read some reviews saying its not worth visiting, which just made me want to visit it more. To be fair it’s not a place you would choose to visit if you had two weeks […]

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Notes on Sam Son Beach – The hyper-local resort city in Northern Vietnam

August 21, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Sam Son is a beach city in northern Vietnam, 16 km east of Thanh Hoa City (which is 150 km south of Hanoi). It’s not the sort of place that’s listed in Lonely Planet (I checked my 2018 edition), and that’s fair enough. With hundreds of kilometres of beaches to choose from in Vietnam, you […]

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Scenic Ninh Binh – The Trang An Landscape Complex

August 13, 2020 By James Clark 3 Comments

The Trang An Landscape Complex is the name for what most people just refer to as Ninh Binh. That’s the official UNESCO World Heritage name, while in Vietnam it’s the more superfluous Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. Ninh Binh is also the name of the capital city of the province of the same name, though […]

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Notes on Thanh Hoa – A provincial capital in the North Central Region of Vietnam

August 6, 2020 By James Clark 2 Comments

Thanh Hóa is the capital of Thanh Hoa Province, about 150 km directly south of Hanoi. Like Tuy Hoa on the South Central Coast of Vietnam, Thanh Hoa doesn’t get a lot of tourism traffic. I got a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Thanh Hoa as it’s the closest airport to Ninh Binh. […]

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Where I’m At: August, 2020 – Saigon edition

August 1, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Greetings from Saigon and another edition of Where I’m At – my monthly summary of where I’ve been and site news. Where I’ve Been I’m in Vietnam where domestic travel has still been possible. I’m not entertaining or encouraging any thought of international travel, and as mentioned later this post it looks like there’s going […]

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Notes on Quy Nhon – an emerging beach city in Vietnam (2020 trip report)

July 29, 2020 By James Clark 2 Comments

Quy Nhon is a provincial capital in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. I was last in Quy Nhon in 2018, and a 2020 visit wasn’t on my travel radar until I visited the beaches of Phu Yen to the south. After visiting Phu Yen it made more sense to go to Quy Nhon […]

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Vinh Hoa Beach – An idyllic small beach getaway in Vietnam

July 16, 2020 By James Clark 7 Comments

Vinh Hoa Beach is near a fishing village of the same name in Phu Yen Province, on the south-central coast of Vietnam. It’s not near any major city, so it’s best to describe is as being approximately half way between Quy Nhon and Tuy Hoa. If those cities are obscure to you, it’s about half […]

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