Travelling Aotearoa: Autumn in Turangi, New Zealand
I just got back from a weekend in “The Central Plateau” in the North Island of New Zealand. Namely a small, remote “desert” town called Turangi. Fifty kilometres southwest of Taupo and skirted by volcanic mountains; Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro,…
Travelling SE Asia: Up The Mekong River.
The daily high-speed ferry departs from South Vietnam (Chau Doc) at 7.30a.m. Picked up from the hotel we were very politely and rather tentatively shown where to embark. We walked down a broken concrete stairway that circumvented another hotel, The…
Traveling Vietnam: And Finding Our Favourite Food
As most of us know, Vietnam is renowned for its food. Fresh, tasty, and authentic. The Vietnamese people celebrate food and treat it as a time to get together with friends and family to share plates of delicious offerings, cooked…
Travelling Vietnam: Try Hanoi
The Capital of Vietnam Hanoi is one of the most exciting and absorbing cities I have ever visited. It is a city much defined by its streets. The locals live on them, their lives unfolding before our eyes as we…
Travelling Vietnam: Final Leg. An Entertaining Hours-Long Bus Ride
Saigon to Chau Doc The last leg of our Vietnam journey involved a six-and-a-half-hour bus trip from HCMC to Chau Doc. We planned to travel by ferry up the Mekong to Phnom Penh for the next instalment of our SE…
Travelling Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City
aka Saigon Saigon is a city I always wanted to see. During the Vietnam War, I used to imagine journalists holed up in hotel rooms, busy typing or telexing their foreign correspondent reports back to the West. My father was…
