Since we’ve been enjoying Vietnamese food so much, we decided it was high time to try our hands at learning how to cook some of this grub. We signed up for a class at Miss Vy’s Cooking School, and had a smashing good time. Unlikely we’ll remember how to make …
Wanting to expand our transportation horizons, we opted for a ‘sleeper’ bus to our next destination, Hoi An, about a 3-hour ride from Hue. There are 3 rows of seats, with seats on the bottom and top like bunk beds. Buses go up and down the coast of Vietnam but we decided …
After being in the city a few days and doing the tourist circuit we wanted to experience the Hue countryside a bit. One doesn’t have to go far outside of Hue to get away from city life and into the surrounding small villages and rice fields, and we figured there would …
First things first – the correct pronunciation of this imperial city’s name is “whey” not “hugh.” We still prefer to call it the latter and then remember we are wrong when given funny looks by folks we are speaking with. Oh well. Leaving our beloved scooter behind in Da Nang, we …
Our transport from Cat Ba dropped us in Hanoi early evening. We wanted to try out the night train to central Vietnam but it turned out to be quite pricy (about $150 for the two of us) and was going to take a good 12 hours. We found another option, …
Now that we’ve had a couple of days to explore Cat Ba Island and dodge the rain as much as possible, we figured it was high time to get ourselves on a boat to Ha Long Bay and see about these naturally occurring limestone karsts that make this a UNESCO …
