Monthly:July 2019

Hanoi

Hanoi Note: This trip was done in 2001 and 2002 Hanoi is Vietnam’s capital town with 3 million citizens (8 millions in 2019) .From 1902 to 1953, Hanoi was the capital town of the French Indochina, which from 1893 consisted of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.Hanoi is a town surrounded with beautiful lakes and lush parks, and it feels a little bit more spacious than HCMC (Saigon). However, the pulse of life is just the same. The most visited area is […]

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DMZ

DMZ Note: This trip was done in 2001. We also made a one-day excursion from Hué to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). DMZ consists of an area about 10 km wide and located around the Ben Hai river. This river forms the split between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The area around the DMZ is still not cleared by mines, and everyday new mines are found.Our first stop was in a mountain district near the Laos border. Due to the fact […]

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Hoi An

We bought bus tickets to Hoi An in Saigon. These are “open tickets” where you decide your final destination of the bus trip. On the way to your destination the bus stops in different cities and you can stay there for several days. The night before you want to depart again you just tell them and then you can go on further to your final stop the next morning. After some days we stayed in Hoi An, in central Vietnam.The bus […]

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Hué

Note: This trip was made in 2001 Hué has about 250000 citizens and is known as the old imperial town. Here 13 Emperors have reigned during 1802 to 1945. The largest places of interest in the area are the old Emperor tombs. In November 1999 the whole town was below water when a huge flood hit some parts of Vietnam. The city is split in two sections by the Parfyme River. We really recommend a boattrip at the Parfyme River. […]

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Saigon

Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has 9 millions citizens. Add to that about 2.5 million of mopeds/motorcycles. One advantage of that is that the city is not as polluted as for example Bangkok. The traffic is very hectic. To go from one side of the street to the other side is a big achievement. You can not stay and wait for someone to stop and let you pass, you must slowly go forward without stopping or going back! […]

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School Visits

During our big Asia trip in 2001 we completed three different school visits. These were our objectives to visiting schools in Malaysia/Borneo, Thailand and Singapore: To visit students and teachers in their everyday life situation at schools in Malaysia/Borneo, Thailand and Singapore and set up a network for long-term and improved contacts.The connections are made especially with children and school personnel in elementary schools in the above mentioned countries. Our hope is that the visit will be followed by corresponding […]

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