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 Posted: Feb 01, 2010 - 04:08 PM
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| skianbeerfist wrote: | I have always wanted to travel the world. I have always wanted to skydive. I have always wanted to deepsea dive with scuba gear. And, basically I just want to climb Mount Everest in a matter of speaking.
I grew up on the beach in Corpus Christi Texas.
I am optimistic.
Sincerely,
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Do you like sand?? Sometimes, I feel like I have sand in my joints. I hope it's not arthritis. |
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Posted: Feb 06, 2010 - 12:32 PM
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Well it was really hard to log onto this site in Vietnam, I had the same problem when I was in China for some reason, I suspect the banners make it a hard page to load on slower networks.
We had a great trip, where we did everything mentioned before plus a night dinner cruise on a beutiful Junk on the Saigon River, the food was excellent and the entrtainment fantastic.
We did a trip to Vung Tau 120km from Saigon, you travel via high speed Hydrofoil ferry and it takes about 1.5 hours each way. Vung Tau is a costal area on a peninsula where the Australian troops had their main base in the war, all over Vung Tau today you still find Australian named bars and hotels and signs with Kangeroo's on them, we ate at Tommy's which had Aussie food and a huge Aussie flag over the bar. At Vung Tau we also visited a monestary, two temples and some historic buildings etc. I even found one of only three Geo Cachese in this area, my first over seas cache.
We then did a full day tour on the Mekong Delta, we were driven there and traveled on the river by SanPan boat, we had lunch at this very colonial french style building.
So our last day was spent around Saigon, the people were great, they are very welcoming and friendly and look content and happy in their lives. We were disapointed with the rubbish in the rivers and how some areas looked so dirty while others you could see much care was taken.
For a quick stop or short holiday it was a great location, the Windsor Hotel is in China Town and was a great five star base, it had a free shuttle every hour and when this was not convenient the Taxi's were great and cheap. There was a huge number of tourists from Finland and Germany there and of course a growing number of Aussies now we have direct flights.
Would I go again, probrably not but only because there are so many more places to see and go to.
A well worth while and enjoyable trip.
Now for Japan in two weeks time |
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Posted: Feb 06, 2010 - 11:10 PM
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Love the Avatar 
Great trip you had there
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