Tag: Travel
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Vietnam Diaries 2- The fall of Saigon and The rise of Ho Chi Minh City
24.12.16 We landed at Saigon on the 23rd December at around 3.00 p.m.after an 8 hour flight through Qatar. Saigon airport was small and met our expectations. It was neither grand or big. Simple, small-town airport. First feel : Anybody who has visited Bangalore, in India, or Srilanka would feel Vietnam’s no different except for the…
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Vietnam Diaries 1: Good Morning , Vietnam!
I landed this morning after a 10 day trip to Vietnam. As I got into the cab on my way home, it seemed like one long, beautiful dream, far, far away; so different from anything that I had fathomed, that it almost seemed unreal. ‘Exotic’ best describes this South East nation-the people, the food, the landscape, the victory…
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Jordan…Eat, Explore, Escape to…
Jordan was the last destination that I thought I would choose to travel to because I knew of it as a hub for medical tourism but hadn’t really heard of it as a travel destination and have not had the opportunity to visit the “must-visit” countries on my list as yet. Also, when I told…
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Robbed in Rome!
Getting out of the Termini station at Rome, I had the most uneasy feeling. Something about the place did not feel right. I am not sure what it was. I can’t actually say it was this particular thing or that. It was just a feeling, a feeling that senses danger. The feeling that one has…
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Cinque Terra, Italy
“Cinque” meaning 5 and “Terra” meaning land- 5 lands is a tour of 5 villages nestled on the mountains alongside the Mediterranean sea , a treat for the eye, a hiker’s dream destination, an artist’s fantasy, a world away from the rest of the world, staggeringly beautiful and unpretentious. In the Liguria region of Italy, set on…
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