Our time in SE Asia is drawing to a close, but before we left we spent some time checking out the seaside city of Nha Trang. The Chams were the original inhabitants of Vietnam. Between the 2nd and 17th centuries, their kingdom extended from the coastline inland across much of modern-day central and southern Vietnam….
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If you need a reprieve from the oppressive heat in Southeast Asia, may we suggest heading to the highlands of south-central Vietnam and the city of Da Lat. Nicknamed “The City of Eternal Spring,” average temperatures are between 14 and 23°C (57 to 73°F), although April, the hottest month, has occasionally seen daytime temperatures as…
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In case you were worried about us following our last post, wherein I alluded to a potential problem with overstaying our visas, we are not in a Cambodian prison, nor were we unceremoniously deported and barred from ever re-entering the country. We were fined – $10 US / $13.50 CAD each. Fortunately, Howard still had…
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m kind of a history nut. Sometimes it’s a bit overwhelming trying to distill thousands of years of history into a manageable chunk, and Vietnam’s past was one of those challenges; I kept getting lost in minutiae. So I finally admitted defeat and what follows is just a…
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