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8 months in Vietnam – the home stretch.
It’s now my last week in Saigon. My Secondary School has closed and I am only in on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon as it is a National Holiday on Wednesday. Standard. But it allows me to organise everything before leaving for two weeks of travel with Aoife before...
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Four months in…
I have decided to write a post about my experience at the half way point. How many things have changed! Driving Nevertheless, it’s scary but I love it. Every time that I am away for the weekend, I miss my bike. And it always makes me happy to drive it again! I stick...
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My first week in Saigon
After graduating, I decided to pack up my life and move to Vietnam. In short, the first week was hellish, but that was to be expected. Every time that I’ve moved to a new country, the first week is filled with confusion, stress and inevitable language barriers. Moving...
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Notre Dame Cathedral of Sai Gon
Today I will introduce you to a must-visit site that I have been fortunate to visit twice in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City. Do you know? Saigon was the first place that the French occupied during the colonial expansion war in Vietnam. Shortly after the capture of Saigon,...
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Dragon Port - The 30 years journey of the First President of Vietnam
A century ago, June 5, 1911, from Dragon Port, the young man -Nguyen Tat Thanh with passionate patriotism, infinite love and extraordinary energy has gone out to find the truth. https://www.vntrip.vn/cam-nang/ben-nha-rong-sai-gon-15793 The colonial port of Sai Gon At...
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Củ Chi War Tunnel - Vietnam
After visiting the Ben Duoc temple, we came to the Resurrection Resistance Area. There I came to understand why a peri-urban district existed in such a heroic revolutionary base. After the trip, I was obsessed and impressived with what I saw at the Cu Chi Tunnels, and...
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Ho Chi Minh City - The Pearl of Indochina ( part 1)
Saigon is in two rainy and sunny seasons. It does not suffer from big water, it is not as stable as the West, it is flooded, it does not sleep through the night like the Central. Winter, the burning heat, the tunnel of the northern summer. The weather as well as the...
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