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Nha Trang
VIETNAM: NHA TRANG April 24-25, 2006 Nha Trang is a beautiful beach with hilly islands. We took an all-day boat tour which included swimming, snorkeling and lunch. And here is where I had my best experience of the trip so far: snorkeling over a reef. I’d never been snorkeling before, and I couldn’t believe how …
Mui Ne Beach
VIETNAM: MUI NE BEACH April 26-28, 2006 Mui Ne, is a lovely little fishing and tourist town spread along a curve in the beach. I really liked this place because the beach was full of local people using nets for fishing, so it was really interesting just to sit around and watch life here. One …
Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island
VIETNAM: HALONG BAY AND CAT BA ISLAND April 19-21, 2006 We spent 3 days in Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Island, which is a beautiful area with lots of hilly islands and floating fishing villages. My favorite part was kayaking and looking at the jellyfish up close. There was also a really large cave …
Dalat
VIETNAM: DALAT April 25-26, 2006 On the journey to Da Lat, the scenery was beautiful. Da Lat is the highlands, so the air was cool, the mosquitoes were abundant and there was nothing to do there. We looked at the people fishing in the little lake and got eaten by mosquitoes and wandered around the market. rice …
Lantau Island
HONG KONG: Lantau Island January 30, 2006 On Monday morning, we took a ferry to Lantau Island. It is the largest of the islands, nearly twice the size of Hong Kong Island, although its population is a mere 45,000. At Mui Wo, the sleepy southern side of the island where our ferry arrived, we …
Lamma Island
HONG KONG: Lamma Island February 1, 2006 On Wednesday, we took a ferry to Lamma Island, the third largest island. There are no cars on Lamma Island, so the island is covered in paved footpaths connecting the houses and shops. It was a warm and beautiful day and after about five minutes of traipsing …
Hong Kong Island
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Island January 27 – February 2, 2006 Skyline from Victoria Harbour Hong Kong Island was beautiful. The north side of the island was packed with skyscrapers, but it still managed to have plenty of trees in addition to a botanical and zoological park right in the middle. The city was impeccably …
Cheung Chau Island
HONG KONG: Cheung Chau Island February 2, 2006 Thursday was our last day in Hong Kong. For breakfast we dined on chocolate milk and donuts then took a ferry to Cheung Chau Island. It’s a small dumbbell-shaped island that also has no cars, so most of the population is crowded into the isthmus near …
Yangshuo
China: Yangshuo April 14-16, 2006 We spent the last three days of our China trip in Yangshuo, which has great scenery and is the “sister city” of Zac’s Grandpa’s city of Morehead Kentucky. It was through this connection that we ended up having lunch with Mayor Zhou in a restaurant right by the Li River …
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON CAKES from http
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON CAKES from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050919/od_nm/china_mooncakes_dc Mon Sep 19, 2:49 PM ET BEIJING (Reuters) — The people of Beijing munched through 15,000 tonnes of mooncakes — more than 1 kg (2.2 lb) per person — and bought one tenth of all the round cakes sold nationwide for Sunday’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Xinhua news agency …