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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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Vinh Hoa Beach – An idyllic small beach getaway in Vietnam

July 16, 2020 By James Clark 5 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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Lucky Spot Beach Bungalow – an almost perfect beach break on one of the most scenic beaches in Vietnam

June 16, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Guesthouse Name: Lucky Spot Beach Bungalow. Address: Vinh Hoa, Tu Nham, Song Cau, Phu Yen, Vietnam. I stayed at Lucky Spot Beach Bungalow on Vinh Hoa Beach, located in Phu Yen Province on the south-central coast of Vietnam. I had read about this beach on a forum, which led me to book at Lucky Spot. […]

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Notes on Cox’s Bazar – the longest beach in the world

March 21, 2018 By James Clark 9 Comments

Cox’s Bazar is the pride and joy of Bangladeshis. Everywhere I went people would always say to visit their famous beach. I had already planned my Bangladesh trip to end at Cox’s Bazar, and after being in the big cities I was looking forward to filling my lungs with sea air for a few days. […]

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Unawatuna Travel Guide

May 1, 2015 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Unawatuna Travel Guide

Travel Guides > Sri Lanka > Unawatuna Travel Guide Unawatuna is 5 km south of Galle and is usually lumped together with Galle. If you are a beach person then you may prefer to stay here and just do day trips into Galle. I felt that Unawatuna was a destination in itself, so I stayed […]

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Notes on Pangandaran, Indonesia – An alternative beach destination to Bali

April 19, 2013 By James Clark 9 Comments

Pangandaran Travel Guide

[Pangandaran Beach, Java – Indonesia] Up until a few days before I arrived I had never heard of Pangandaran. This fishing village on the south coast of West Java is a popular beach resort (if you can describe it as that) for domestic visitors, but like much of Indonesia beyond Bali, it is not on […]

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Pulau Pangkor Travel Guide

September 14, 2010 By James Clark 9 Comments

Pangkor Island Travel Guide

Travel Guides > Malaysia > Pangkor Travel Guide Pulau Pangkor (Pangkor Island) is on the West Coast of Peninsula Malaysia. It’s close enough to Kuala Lumpur to make it an accessible stopover destination, which was how I ended up on the island. I had a week in KL enroute to China, so rather than staying […]

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Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast

August 11, 2010 By James Clark 13 Comments

Nessebar

The Black sea Coast of Bulgaria has been a budget holiday favourite for decades. First with the countries behind the Iron Curtain, and now with the countries from the cold north. Along this stretch of coast is a good cross section of Europe with styling urban cities, cheapo package holiday resorts, old fishing villages and […]

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Notes on Fort Lauderdale: beaches and canals

June 10, 2010 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is one of those places that turned out better than I thought it would be. The beaches are better than Miami (softer sand) and the mansions and super yachts along the waterways are truly grand. Fort Lauderdale Beach. Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called the Venice of America. I wince whenever I hear the […]

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Notes on Miami: The Capital of the Americas

June 5, 2010 By James Clark 6 Comments

Miami Beach

Going To Miami It wasn’t my original plan to visit Miami on this trip to the USA. I was planning to road trip from Chicago back to Newport, RI, where I have based myself. It turns out that there is hardly a hostel between Chicago and Newport, so my accommodation budget was facing a blowout […]

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