Along the Nam Ou
Nong Khiaw is a small town (or village) located on the Nam Ou, a tributary river of the Mekong, 4 hours north of Luang Prabang. We first heard about it while speaking with a French girl during our day hike… Continue Reading
Nong Khiaw is a small town (or village) located on the Nam Ou, a tributary river of the Mekong, 4 hours north of Luang Prabang. We first heard about it while speaking with a French girl during our day hike… Continue Reading
To avoid a rather long journey by bus (and also visa scams at the Laotian border), we took a one-hour flight from Hanoi to Luang Prabang. Luang Prabang is quite different from the other South Asian cities we visited previously.… Continue Reading
We heard about the Ha Giang motorbike loop from many people we met here and there in Vietnam. All agreed it offers marvelous landscapes. It is also less crowded than the touristy Sapa, so probably a bit more authentic. Knowing… Continue Reading
I am sure none of you (readers) have heard about this place before, even if you have already visited Vietnam. Am I wrong? 🙂While we were looking for an alternative to Sapa, which we heard had become an overcrowded touristic… Continue Reading
Though we did not know it yet, leaving Cat Ba one day earlier was a smart move, as we discovered Tam Coc the so-called “Halong Bay on earth”, as its karst scenery is quite similar to Halong Bay but located… Continue Reading
Cat Ba is an island located south of Halong Bay. We read about it on Juju and Coco’s blog, a couple of friends who completed an eight months Asian trip in 2016. Our first impressions were not really good: we… Continue Reading
Recommended by some friends, we had booked a fancy cruise on a traditional vietnamese junk. This Unesco-classified scenic landscape actually covers 3 bays (Halong, Bai Tu Long and Lan Ha). We went on the second one (Bai Tu Long bay)… Continue Reading
To avoid a rather long journey back to Tokyo, we had booked a flight to our next destination (Hanoi, Vietnam) from Osaka instead. Believing Osaka was just “another big city”, we decided to split our last day in Japan between… Continue Reading
Though we spent 5 days in Kyoto, we did not go much out of the beaten path for various reasons (Hagibis typhoon being one of them) so we basically focused on the city “must-do” attractions. Also we eventually prepared for… Continue Reading
On our way to Kanazawa, we stopped several hours in the “village of the White River”, Shirakawa–gō. Though this traditional village used to be famous for its silk worm culture, we did not see any of these little monsters 🙁… Continue Reading