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Index
This post will serve as an index page to my various trips. Each trip will be further broken down into several blog posts, each blog detailing out about one location. South East Asia trip – Oct & Nov 2024 Goa Mahabaleshwar road trip – Sept 2024 Goa Mangalore Kudremukh road trip – July 2024 Goa…
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Cat Ba – Han La Bay Tour
How the trip came to be Halong Bay and Han La Bay are the two beautiful bays studded with numerous limestone karsts which magically rise from the ocean while one is cruising through the waters. Halong is famous hence more crowded. I had seen it back in 2019 and it was indeed amazingly beautiful. Some…
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Sa Pa
HK Buslines – Comfortable though delayed arrival After a lot of last minute hassles (details here), I was successfully picked up from my hostel in Hanoi (Lake View) at 845am. We were then shifted to the main bus from the pickup van. The journey started with lots of enthusiasm of seeing the world famous rice…
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Hanoi
Weather gods to be consulted henceforth before every trip I had landed at Hanoi with the hope of finally getting some respite from the monsoon which has been chasing me from Saigon, to Da Lat and then to Quy Nhon. At every location, many days were completely washed out due to rains. Oct-Dec is the…
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Quy Nhon
Bus Journey to Quy Nhon There are two cities off the regular tourist trail between Da Lat and Hoi An – Tuy Hoa and Quy Nhon. I wanted an experience slightly off the busy places, so I had decided to visit Quy Nhon and time permitting, to do a bike trip to Tuy Hoa from…
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Da Lat
On my previous trip to Vietnam back in 2019, I couldn’t visit Da Lat. Since then I only had heard good things about Da Lat. As a result, it was a vital part of my Vietnam itinerary this time around. After staying for just a couple of days in District 1, Saigon, I was so…
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Crossing Land Border at Bavet–Moc Bai border I had used Giant Ibis bus company for all my Cambodia intercity travels and had loved their service way too much – so I booked my Phnom Penh – Saigon travel with them. Ticket cost – 35$ Bus timings – 8am and 945am daily Travel time – 7hours.…
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Cambodia – Probably the best travel destination in South East Asia
Transport Giant Ibis is a bus company providing upscale travel service b/w all major tourist cities of Cambodia. It connects Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kep, Sihanoukville and other cities. Internationally, it connects Siem Reap to Bangkok and Phnom Penh to Saigon. Comfortable, clean and punctual – I booked all my trips with them and…
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Koh Rong – A slice of paradise – All you need to know
Amidst confusion whether to visit an island in monsoon season and several positive recommendations about the exceptional beauty of Koh Rong – I finally made up my mind and boarded the 10:40am Cambodian train from Kampot Train station to Sihanoukville. One can conveniently book a Grab TukTuk in Kampot – the journey to train station…
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Kampot and Kep
Kampot is a beautiful laid back city on the banks of Preaek Tuek Chhu River in Southern Cambodia. My rendezvous with Kampot started with getting down at the Giant Ibis bus stop with literally no one around. It was 530pm in the evening. The air was warm and weather pleasant. I had a feeling how…
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