3 weeks island hopping around Croatia.- Small Islands
Our experience on Mijet and Korcula in the Adraitic, island hopping around Croatia
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3 weeks island hopping around Croatia – Dubrovnik
3 weeks island hopping around Croatia.
Dubrovnik Mijet, Korcula, Hvar, Brac, and Split
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A Long Weekend in Belfast
Belfast is a friendly, buzzing city.
Not only does it pay homage to its industrial heritage, it is a gateway to lush green countryside with a splendid coastline.
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3 week itinerary: Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh
A 3 week itinerary for travelling Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh. As a newly retired couple we thought we’d try something a bit different to our usual 2 weeks of splodging on a beach with maybe a trip or two.
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Ho Chi Minh and the Mekong Delta.
It was back to the same, big city scooter chaos that had bewitched us in Hanoi.
In Ho Chi Minh City locals prefer the old name, Saigon.
This pulsating place has everything from cheap guesthouses to fine hotels.
You can eat at street stalls or in the finest restaurants.
You can shop in the markets or splash the cash in the classiest of boutiques and designer shops.
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Quy Nonh – a Vietnamese beach city.
We took a sleeper coach from Hoi An and headed south to the seaside town of Quy Nhon.
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Hue, The Imperial Citadel and Tu Doc Tomb
The Saigon Express sleeper train rolled into Ninh Binh Railway station at just gone 8.30am and we went straightt to Carriage Six, where our allotted bunks were 17 and 19.Much to our relief, unlike our previous sleeper coach, the bunks were big enough to fit us.
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Bich Dong Pagoda and Mua Cave Viewpoint
Mua Cave, 5km from Ninh Binh, is set in a beautiful spot. Mua Cave and Viewpoint We paid our admission (100,000 vnd each) and first found a large koi carp pond fed by a serene mountain waterfall. A stone staircase of 500 steps zigzags up an impressive peak on which perches a great stone dragon.
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