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Photo Gallery: Vietnamese Water Puppets in Ho Chi Minh City
I’ve gathered a few photos to go along with my article about Vietnamese water puppets. Read the story that goes with the photos Puppets with movable arms perform a synchronized dance that must require...
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Vietnamese Puppetry: Just Add Water
A colorful, wooden fisherman, almost as big as his traditional Vietnamese fishing boat, sits in the bow with a fishing rod and a line dangling into the water. Suddenly, a fish as big has he is leaps...
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My Visa Emergency and the Next Big Trip
It’s January, winter has just about worn out its wonder for me, and it’s time to hit the road. It’s gloomy enough at 10 am on a Sunday that I have the lights on while I’m typing this. The bags are...
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Thoughts from Saigon
It’s been nearly two years since I’ve been back to Vietnam, and this time Peung joins me, so it’s my first time not traveling here alone. I’m back in Ho Chi Minh City (see some of my previous blog...
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Enter the Snake: Photos from Tet in Saigon
Just a handful of shots from tonight. At midnight began the year of the snake here in Saigon. We headed up to the 10th floor of the hotel to watch the fireworks down by the river near the Majestic...
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Finding Humility in Ho Chi Minh City
There isn’t a day that goes by that I am not aware of how fortunate I am. That’s not to say each day doesn’t have its little (or even big) personal melodramas, discomforts, annoyances, and valid...
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Street Food: Best Banh Mi in Ho Chi Minh City
Among the list of best restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City over at TripAdvisor is a street food cart. But there aren’t too many restaurants on that list offering food at 75 cents, but Banh Mi 37 Nguyen...
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Hue: Vietnam’s Imperial City
Huế is pronounced “hway” with a sort of rising tone that may sound like someone asking for clarification: hway? Gentle and wide, the Perfume River winds its way to the sea from the nearby mountains,...
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Three Second Rule in Hue
I am not squeamish about street food. I swear by it, generally speaking. The occasions I get rip-roaring sick I have usually traced back to a crappy “proper” restaurant; a couple in the fancy malls of...
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Getting a Visa for Vietnam: Rules, Snafus, Solutions
Visa on Arrival or E-Visa for Vietnam It has become so much easier to get a visa for Vietnam since I first did it myself several years ago and wrote this post. The rules changed a few times, and I...
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