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Day 30-32: Rock the CatBa
Since our passports are tied up with the Indian embassy until Monday morning we’ve been pretty much stuck in Hanoi. Instead of sweating it out in the city we decided to join our new frienda, Melissa and Hannah on a three day two night tour to HaLong Bay.HaLong bay is about 150km north of Hanoi Read more
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Shanghizzle
Shanghai was lots of fun for us. We were able to mesh our schedule with our friends from home who play in the ‘Indie Rock Group – Paper Lions’. It was a great taste of home for us and it was refreshing to see some familiar faces from familiar places. We let loose a little Read more
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Memory Lane : Suzhou / Hangzhou
Suzhou and Hangzhou were both nice and quaint. I think that each of them deserved more time than we gave them. We spent two days in each place which was not enough time to get settled and truly enjoy the cities. If I had to choose one over the other I would have chosen to Read more
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Tip: The Cost of Traveling in China
We spent a lot of time budgeting our money for this trip and a lot Iof the times it was really difficult to find up to date or accurate information. Fortunately though we ended up coming in more or less exactly on budget. Some cities we were over and others we were under. So for those Read more
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Day 28&29: Hectic Hanoi
We arrived in Hanoi Sunday in the late afternoon and were immediately impressed by the chaos. We’ve spent a lot of time in Asia and have seen a lot of traffic and big crowds of people but nothing quite like this. Hanoi is a whole new kind of beast. We got dropped into the thick Read more
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Tip: Overlanding from Hong Kong to Hanoi via Shenzhen and Pingxiang
I wrote a post earlier about setting up this part of the trip but for those of you trying to do something similar here is the rest of the story. We had already purchased our tickets on the overnight bus from Shenzhen to Pingxiang so all that remained was to complete the trip. We left Read more
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