Kinabatangan Jungle Camp It’s our third day in the Borneo rain forest. Two boat trips down the Kinabatangan River each day. It’s a rain forest, and it seems to have set out to prove it! We’d been on a short trek into the forest surrounding our camp earlier that day, and had squelched through the… Continue reading Not-so tall tales from the jungle!
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Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon, or as it’s now known, Ho Chi Minh City, is a port city, and so it’s been settled by many different peoples, merchants and traders over the centuries. Khmer fishermen lived here before the Nguyen Dynasty came in. Later French colonists, looking for a trading post in SE Asia, seized the city and declared… Continue reading Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam Videos
*** We have many more posts on Vietnam still to come ~ watch this space! *** We spent six weeks in Vietnam during February/March 2017. We very much enjoyed meeting the people, learning a little about the different cultures around the country, including some of the ethnic minorities in central and NW Vietnam. Oh and… Continue reading Vietnam Videos
South East Asian Airlines
This is a completely subjective, personal view of some of the various SE Asian airlines, from our experiences of flying around the area between February and June 2017. In no particular order: