So my very exciting tour looks like this:
Day 1: Hanoi
Day 2: Halong Bay
Day 3: Hanoi
Day 4: Hue
Day 5: Hoi An
Day 6: Whale Island
Day 7: Whale Island
Day 8: Nha Trang - Saigon
Day 9: Ho Chi Minh city
Day 10: Saigon
If you look very closely at the map, you can see I pretty much cross the entire country!
But I just checked ticket prices and it is going to ki-ill me!! Apparently the cheapest ticket without including airport taxes etc etc is Rs.40,000!! My god - I can't even imagine what I would have to fork out if I was paying full price for the tour. What I need to do is find a buddy ticket type situation so that would practically work out to be a free holiday - is anybody volunteering?? please...pretty please...with pink icing and a cherry on top? I am also thinking I might do a LCC from Bangkok to Hanoi - since I know I can get a cheap flight to Bangkok from here so that's a thought. If anyone can recommend anything and please remember, budget travel is the key thought here!
I'm really excited though...after ages, I'm going to be doing a never been there before kinda holiday - it's always fun evenn though I know just before I'm due to leave, I will be behaving like a chicken and saying 'do I need to go? Really Really? ' . I hate leaving the safety of the house you see for faraway lands unknown and yippee - they speak french in some parts so me and R should be able to make do!
A friend of a friend had visited Vietnam late last year so I'm going to ask her about her experiences - if anybody knows anything that they would like to share with me - please go ahead!
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V goes to Vietnam at least once every year, the lucky dog. Basically Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi. There's supposed to be lots of churches and a lovely art sector. So keep space on your way back for cheap paintings. I don't think much French is spoken anymore.
Um 19th of what?
oh you lucky lucky thing!!!
Just finished reading amazing account of friend's trip to Laos and am totally GREEN with travel envy.
Must comfort myself with knowledge that am going to Montreal over Easter weekend.
@ pixy princess: I is also upset that can't do Cambodia and Laos as originally planned but don't get so much leave so rushing through 3 countries in 18 days did not seem like such a dream thing!
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