Category Day/Weekend Trips from Saigon
Cao Dai Temple and Cu Chi Tunnels
During my last weekend in Vietnam, my friend’s parents were visiting, so we took a day trip a little bit outside of the city. Our first stop was the Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh (close to where I went hiking and broke my arm earlier this year). Cao Daoism is one of the most […]
Phu Quoc
Phu Quoc is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, right off the coast of Cambodia… which is somehow part of Vietnam. The island is stunning – it’s mountainous and highly under developed in the the center of the island, and it’s surrounded by white sand beaches. I really wanted to make it Phu Quoc […]
Vung Tau
This past weekend I finally made it to Vung Tau – the beach that’s about an hour and a half outside of Ho Chi Minh City. Vung Tau has been a popular get away for people living in HCMC/Saigon for centuries – the French used it both as a port and a vacation spot, and […]
Back in Phnom Penh!
Last weekend I went back to Phnom Penh with a group of my co-workers! It was really neat, because even though I went to the same place two times so close together – I had a completely different experience both times. My more recent trip was really relaxing – Phnom Penh moves at a much […]
Phnom Penh
Last weekend I took a bus over to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It’s a lot of traveling for such a short trip (I was only in Phnom Penh for a little over 24 hours), but I managed to fit a lot in! It was a really interesting time to visit Cambodia, the king’s father (Norodom Sihanouk) […]
Siem Reap
Last weekend was Vietnamese Independence Day (independence from the French), so I got my first three day weekend! Over the weekend, I left Vietnam for the first time since I’ve been here to go to Siem Reap, Cambodia to see the Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat was probably the site I was most excited about seeing […]
Da Lat
I took my first weekend trip outside of Saigon to a town in the Central Highlands of Vietnam called Da Lat. During the French occupation of Vietnam, the colonists used Da Lat as a vacation town – so the architecture has a strong French/Swiss influence (it’s known as “Le Petit Paris” – and even has […]
Trip to Tay Ninh
A few weeks ago I went on a beautiful hike in the Tay Ninh province (right outside of Cambodia) on Black Lady Mountain with a few co-workers. The mountain plays a role in Vietnamese mythology. Also, during the Vietnam War the mountain was on the Ho Chi Minh trail. During the war, there were many […]
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