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3A station – a street art venue in Ho Chi Minh city
3A Station in Ho Chi Minh city – a street art venue/ youth culture hub/ great place for hangouts – has gone. I’m quite sad reading the news. This place is a combination of the contemporary art and an entertainment space. Street-style-decorated stores with a lot of graffiti wall is 3A specialities. It makes a real sense of art. The founder team plan to make it into “a destination not to be missed in Ho Chi Minh city” and I confirm that it’s true, I and my friends love the atmostphere there. I remember the first time I’ve been in 3A station with my friend. We shot a dozen of pictures. They are all beautiful. The…
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A Guide to “town on the cloud” Tam Dao
A weekend getaway selected by French, just 80km from Hanoi. Tam Dao is such a well-known destination thanks to its poetic scenery and spectacular cool climate all year round. Its name means three highest mountains (or “islands” on the cloud) named as Thien Thi, Thach Ban and Phu Nghia, which constitutes a basin where the cloudy town is situated, just a stone’s throw away from the borderline of two provinces Vinh Phuc and Thai Nguyen. People in the capital usually seek to travel here for leisure experience on the weekends, especially during the summertime and occasional hot days since the average temperature in Tao Dao is approximately 18 degrees at any season.…
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Ultimate Backpacking Checklist: What-To-Bring Before Boarding Flights
These final checklist before boarding will be sure you get a well-prepared trip. Passport This is the most important document right? Indeed, when you just travel overseas. If you’re Vietnamese, you can summit for a passport for 200,000 dong and it takes one week, then you can receive at the office. Visa It depends on your target countries. If you travel to visa exemption countries then no need to add it to the list. For Vietnamese passport, you can travel around Southeast Asia region at no cost, except for Timor East. Credit/ Debit cards Remember to bring them because most of the time we can have quick money from ATMs.…
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Bookclub: Brave New World – Happiness is boring
This is my very first English book for New Year Resolutions. It’s a big work of sci-fi and honestly it’s tough to read, too. Here is what I learned from Brave New World, mostly about happiness (and the reason why backpacking is still a joyful lifestyle for some of us, me included!) (Spoiler alert: I would partly reveal the plot below, so if you’d like to read, then read it, before continuing) Interesting distintives The iconic novel by Aldous Huxley introduces a world where human beings are perfectly conditioned, well-planned, fully content, even infantile a bit, hence, full of … happiness. On top of that, the people are cloned in…
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A Journey to Mau Son Resort, Lang Son
A memorable ride can fool you in the mysterious mist even in daylight, en route to the resort from the French colonial era with dozens of old houses now abandoned. For me, traveling by motorbike to the resort area of Mau Son mountain range (dãy núi Mẫu Sơn) was a tough, rough but irresistible ride, especially when wheels were rolling on a small road side by majestic cliffs. Read more: Top Tips to Make a Roadtrip Around Sapa by Motorbike Turning my head and I admired a panoramic vista towards green slopes dotted by local terrace fields with one or two lodges nearby sometime. The area is said to comprise up to 80 mountains…
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How to Travel From Bangkok To Hua Hin On A Budget
To reach Hua Hin, you can depart from Bangkok – The capital city of Thailand with several means to choose at your demand. Hua Hin is a tranquil city to the south of Thailand. It’s really renowned for beaches, delicious food, interesting tourism destinations and many distinctively exquisite sights. That’s reasons why tourists, both domestic and foreign, always choose this city for their holidays. There are 3 main ways to get to Hua Hin: by taxi, by bus or by train. 1. By bus or minibus Bus and minibus are the most preferred ones of top tips to travel from Bangkok to Hua Hin on a budget. If you choose bus…
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Trekking on Hon Son island: A Guide to Ma Thiên Lãnh
An extremely compelling experience awaits you on Hòn Sơn. One of my favorites during trip on Hòn Sơn is to enjoy swimming in turquoise sea with diverse marine world and also take part in continually trekking on steep trails through dense forests with giant and ancient trees to reach the top of the mountains and enjoy panoramic vista towards the coastal road bending like a snake, clusters of coconut, emerald sea ornate with rocks like eggs in various sizes, all under such a blue clear sky. In Hòn Sơn, these activities are possible to be experienced within one day. Fantastic! My typical schedule with a trekking option in mind: wake up…
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A Book in My Backpack: Guns, Germs and Steel
A hike through 13,000 years of human civilization evolution and five continents in less than 600 pages. This book was actually a big deal to me, since it focuses mainly on the history and geography, in contrast to the first English book of the new year challenge – Brave New World, which heavily depicted a fictional universe in the far future. Truth be told. Some sessions of this work really discouraged me as it presented such an enormous number of examples in boring scientific approaches, coupled with a long line of ancient flora & fauna names that I had to frequently look up in the search engine to get the picture. It’s…
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Hon Son Island Travel Guide
Tons of amazing things to see and do on this tropical paradise and this Hon Son island travel guide dare get you through the jungle of spectacular spots! Why Hon Son island, Vietnam? At the first sight, I was knocked down by its dramatically majestic beauty: pristine beach lined with coconuts, well, there’s indeed a forest of coconuts on the island. Disembarking from the express ferry of the Superdong operator, I was spontaneously feeling the dynamic life of the island while walking on the bridge toward the crowded central residence. The islanders and tourists moving fast back and forth the backbone of the boat dock. Not so far, the platoon…
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The most famous beer street in Hanoi: Ta Hien
Unique experiences to expect at the most popular beer street in the capital, with all the chaos around 200-meter-long hub: Ta Hien street, located at the heart of the Old Quarters, just a stone’s throw away from the legendary Hoan Kiem Lake. It seems every glorious backpacking city has its own hub to celebrate the nightlife. In Vietnam, the list is quite long. Not to mention the busiest seaside roads of the popular coastal cities like Vung Tau, Nha Trang,… or several well-known islands such as Phu Quoc, Cat Ba, Bui Vien street in Ho Chi Minh city is definitely a must for nightlife fans. And its renowned counterpart in Hanoi – “beer street” Ta Hien (Vietnamese: Tạ Hiện) also worths a…
