Back in 2014 Dan and I took our first big trip together. We spent two weeks exploring Thailand, spending a hectic day in Bangkok followed by almost a week in Chiang Mai and then a week on an island beach. We had been dating for a few years and things were getting serious. Although we weren’t living together yet, we were starting to broach the subject of maybe moving in together. At that point we had never spent more than…
I mentioned in my earlier post about our time in Hue that the food we experienced in Vietnam was unique and wonderful but that I had been doing a terrible job documenting it. With that in mind, I made a more conscious effort to document what we ate when we returned to Hanoi from Halong bay. When we got back Varshan left to go on a two day motorcycle ride, leaving me, Dan and Megan to really dig into the Hanoi…
Yesterday afternoon Dan and I took a bus from Ho Chi Minh City south to Can Tho, the biggest city in the Mekong Delta region, with the goal of getting up early and spending a day at Vietnam’s famous floating markets. We fist heard of the floating markets while watching a travel show on Netflix and it looked like an experience we couldn’t pass up. After some initial confusion about where where to buy bus tickets we successfully made it…
We are four days into our trip and I’m struggling to put my impressions of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) into words. We arrived at 1AM on Wednesday night after almost 20 hours of travel and I have to admit that, in my exhausted and jet lagged state, I did not love Ho Chi Minh for the first couple of days. We spent our first two days wandering around the city, trying to get our bearings and trying not to…