by Casey Siemasko | Aug 23, 2013 | Vietnam
Most travelers to Vietnam will take direct transportation from Hanoi to Hue, skipping over an extensive area of Northern Vietnam. In doing so, they’ll also pass over a little gem of a town only 150 kilometers north of Hue: Dong Hoi. Largely devastated during the...
by Casey Siemasko | Aug 19, 2013 | Vietnam
I’m in love with a small town by the name of Vu Ban. You’ve probably never heard of it, and it’s likely you never will again. The dusty town is about 100 kilometers from anything warranting a city, and there are certainly no ‘attractions’ to be had here. A dirt...
by Dan Moore | Aug 15, 2013 | Adventure Travel, Photo Essays, Photography, Vietnam
They may not capture the children who run to the roadside, posed for a high-five as we pass by. Or the old women who try to cycle faster than us, laughing and balancing small mountains of rice on their own bikes all the way. They don’t show the locals who slow their...
by Casey Siemasko | Aug 12, 2013 | Travel Inspiration, Vietnam
You might know by now, but currently we’re cycling cross-country through Vietnam. By ourselves, lugging way too much stuff (sorry Dan), over mountains and dirt roads and towns that don’t even exist in any guidebook. It’s exhilarating, scary, and exhausting, but most...
by Casey Siemasko | Aug 8, 2013 | Photo Essays, Photography, Travel, Vietnam
The short answer? YES! We actually had a different post prepared to share with you today. But then we went to Halong Bay, and everything changed. We were too excited about what we saw to think or talk or write about anything else. We would have felt guilty for keeping...
