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Pythons & Biceps in Hanoi’s Outskirts

  By Robert Reid | June 16, 2007 - 11:12 pm | RO-Travel, Uncategorized
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Just leaving the Water Puppet performance in central Hanoi — where tourists pack into tight rows of plush red seats in an air-conditioned hall to watch an hour-long performance of dancing fishes, dragon, turtles, farmers splash in the water to a live soundtrack … Read on →

Tagged Hanoi circus, Kajagoogoo, nightclub opening, pythons

Sapa Tours… It’s a Frenzy!

  By Robert Reid | June 16, 2007 - 7:27 am | Uncategorized
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Sometimes researching guidebooks just means being a tourist. Sapa emerged as a must-stop itinerary-changer, with high mountains, traditional H’mong and Red Giay villages and cool temperatures in the far north of Vietnam. Fancy hotels are there now, and fancy tourists, even though it … Read on →

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Watching TV in Sapa

  By Robert Reid | June 12, 2007 - 7:24 am | Uncategorized
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BETTER THAN A MUSEUM?Travel isn’t a full-time deal unless you let it get out of hand. I find — whether I’m in Yakutsk, Sliven or Bac Ha — I end up turning on the TV a bit, if there’s one available. Coming into … Read on →

Tagged no dogs, Price is Right, Robot Wars, TV in Vietnam

Backroads Mishaps en route to Bac Ha

  By Robert Reid | June 11, 2007 - 5:00 am | Uncategorized
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I’ve long been saying that in Vietnam anything’s possible: where there’s a will, there’s usually a way. I may need to revise that after a disasterous two-day trip to Bac Ha, a minority town of H’mong people near the Chinese border, an overnight … Read on →

Tagged Bac Ha, motorbike nightmares, piglets, the new Sapa

It Takes Five Days to Love Hanoi

  By Robert Reid | June 7, 2007 - 10:09 pm | Uncategorized
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Or One Glass of 15-cent beerIf you look at a world map and think a bit, there are very very few countries, where you have more than one major, world-known rival cities that divvy up political, cultural and economical duties over the centuries. … Read on →

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ROT: The Official Blog

  By Robert Reid | May 30, 2007 - 6:55 pm | RO-Travel, Uncategorized
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I’ll be updating the second — and biggest — portion of my free online guide to Vietnam in June and July. Last October and November I biked and boated around the Mekong and Saigon, and the website is now up at www.reidontravel.com. I’ll … Read on →

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