Befriended in the two hour window between a 12 hour bus and a 12 hour train from China to Vietnam
First classic rice paddy/hat dealio
Valentines Day Hanoi madness
Vietnamese Flag in Hanoi
Intersection motorbike chaos
Business as usual
Street Pho with Charlie (the comedy of his name didn't go unnoticed)
Sleeping shoe salesman
Safety First
Crazy tree
Chicks dig the uniform
Our Valentine's Day date
Poetic aint it
Blurry street restaurant
Brigid's first day! (fruit shake street)
Balanced diet of pineapples
Pho
Water Puppet Show
Street kitchen
Creepy child manequins
Representing Westerners
McCain's Hanoi Hilton
Where she belongs
Brigid's first Pho
Still don't know what this means but their spray painted everywhere
Halong Bay
Natural cave, manmade light
Karsts, everywhere
Atop our boat
Ditto
Fishing for squid, one catch
First of many banana splits
Kayaking at 6am and pretending its fun
Doing all the work
Not doing all the work
First jungle trek
First monkey ninja impression
Where's Waldo
First monkey hamburgaler impression
My own personal cave
On top of a rusty jungle war tower
Beach on some island
More karsts
Fishing boats, flashing lights, and bumping music
Day 2, colder, foggier
Standard $15 hotel
Spot the cameltoe
Our Hanoi Hilton
A1, not just for steak
Cat on a leash
Overnight bus south to Hue
Ho Chi Minh's Tomb
Hanoi life
Hue marketeers
Wine and jam
Wine party, sans Cheryl
Dragon fruit
Back alley exploring
Back alley gems
First motorbike ride
Desolate beach in Hue
We commandeered an abandoned boat
Local hawkers
Dried squid
Hue Citadel (pretty boring)
But I bought a soccer ball!
And we found elephants
First night in Hoi An
Our bus stopped for lunch and we ran a half mile to this beach
Then we ran back, as the bus was pulling away with our bags
Hoi An vendor
Aren't we all
Bikes to the beach!
Reward (kissing the guns)
The real reward
The REAL reward
Mr Hung, our favorite chef
Standard house temple
Our hotel came with robes!
Crouching tiger hidden dragon fruit
Private beach
See
Riding home
Backwater scenery
Keg delivery service for Mr Hung's 30 cent drafts
I want that outfit
Nha Trang (lame, except for this picture)
Mui Ne banana sandwich (very not lame)
Mui Ne hammock on our porch
Sand dunes surrounded the town
The daily soccer game that I joined in on
Our beachfront home ($10)
The speedo was free
Local basket boat
We were invited to join a lunch with some locals (prawn as big as a beer)
So much food and drink
Of course, unidentifiable rice whiskey of sorts
And a jam session with this fun loving crazy old man
My turn
Hiking up the fairy river
Ok, not really hiking
It's red from the dunes and sand
We were goofy by this point
The White Dunes
Our guide
Sand boarding
It was super windy
Sand jumping
Bombs away
Taximan, to the next dunes!
The Red Dunes
Eiffel Tower
I'm a little tea pot
Fleet of fishing boats (I feel sorry for the fish)
Do it yourself BBQ with the locals
Our bungalow
Party in the mosquito net
I climbed this tree to get a nut off
Coconut dept
Diced fruit dept
Fresh rum fruity cocktails on the beach dept
Our bungalows
My view
Strike a pose
Ditto to the sun
The last of the rum and fruit
Tastes so good
More fresh coconut
Hot pot with the locals
You cant walk past one and not jump on
Good morning. Cattle on the beach?
Our hotel
Killer style on the way to Ho Chi Minh City
Taking in the sights and coffee in HCMC
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Vietnam War Museum, very enlightening and solemn
The exhibit on napalm and agent orange was graphic and disturbing but my pictures didn't come out
Where we stayed in HCMC (aka Saigon)
Mekong River Delta
Making rice paper (aka penis skin)
Making rice crispies which is like the popcorn or rice kernals, pop and all
Local water shacks, gotta have your TV signal though
Our goofy tour guide, prone to singing and letting his mole hairs grow
Beer and Dongs, a match made in heaven
Lunchtime self guided jungle hike, bananas
Baby pineapple
Durian Fruit (smells like animal carcass but pulls off shades)
Ant nest somehow made out of full sized leaves and goo
Floatin down the river
Fish farm, PETA unite
More water shacks with sweet reception
Weaving the old fashioned way
Sister helping her brother pee his pants
The bridge to backwards village tourist stop
Building bamboo bridges
Swimming with the fishes
Bridge works
Downtime on the 5 hr boat ride on hard seats
Border village at Cambodia, the Mekong river rises that much in the rainy season
