Leaving Hanoi, we hopped rides on the back of a pair of motos whose ambitious drivers careened around slower vehicles, in a race against time to get us to the train station. We boarded our 30-hour train bound for the bottom end of the country, prepared for a 2 night and 1 day excursion down… Read More Saigon: Where Americans don’t get stared at
Our second stop involved flying into Hanoi at night, landing in the dreary darkness near the airport and passing through the messy, sprawling outer boundaries of the Vietnamese capitol in a fast-moving taxi. We were deposited in the care of a young Vietnamese woman from our guesthouse in the midst of a swirling whirlpool of… Read More I love the smell of motos in the evening
Initially our plan had been to go to Guilin, a city in southwest China surrounded by the limestone mountains that make its famed karst landscape. I however underestimated the demand on the Chinese railways for the holidays, and found that ambitious travel agents had snapped up all the available tickets within a day after they… Read More Tour d’Asia, Part 1: Kuala Lumpur
So I am back home in Shenzhen and have started uploading my pictures. About half of mine from the past month are up now, and more will be along shortly. Follow the trail if you’re interested: Pictures
About halfway or a little more through the big trip of the school year, with the aid of a 5-week break from work thanks to the Chinese New Year festivities. Kathleen met me in Hong Kong on 12 January, and from there we have since been to Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, and now… Read More Notes from the Road
So in the midst of the busy-ness and activity that consumed my normally free and easy 13-hour work week in the beginning of January I never got around to putting down my thoughts and experiences for these two cities. Needless to say that writing now, nearly a month and several countries later, the fine details… Read More Delayed Updates- Suzhou/Hangzhou
Zak Abroad 