#road-schooling

We took a four-hour bus to Dalat from Nha Trang. It was quite a busy ride but not bad.

We stayed at Dalat Train Villas. It is called “Dalat Train Villas” because the owner (who is a train nerd) bought some train tracks and a train carriage, and now it is a little café in which you have breakfast, lunch and dinner (If you don’t go out).

Our rooms were in renovated old French Villas. Every villa…

Aoifes International Menagerie #1; Vietnam & Chim Lac

There are a few different symbols for Vietnam. The one that I’m doing is called a Chim Lac Bird.

Appearing on Vietnam’s ancient Đông Sơn bronze drums, the Chim Lac Bird is a mythical creature.

The Vietnamese myth says that this bird represents the Vietnamese spirit, and it’s a symbol of the guardian angel who watches over Vietnam and carries ancient people on its’ back.

The Chim Lac Bird has an…

After Sanctuary Resort, we took a train to Nha Trang.

There we stayed in a nine-story hotel called Kingtown Hotel. We stayed in a family room with one queen-sized bed, one double bed and one single bed.

Our room was underneath the restaurant on the ninth floor, and a hole in the bathroom ceiling let us hear the chefs above us, not exactly great.

Papa, Cormac and me decided to go into the tiny ro…

Grand Tour 2015 #9; Nha Trang.

Nha Trang is a well established tourist destination on the south coast of Vietnam. It’s just not the sort of place we go. Maybe I am a snob.

It’s a bit of a Party town. There are night clubs and jet skis. There are amusement parks with trapped animals. There is gross wealth juxtaposed with significant poverty. Although in Vietnam the poverty is not as stark as it has seemed in other places I have…