A Few Photos From Our Trip

We're still a little busy this week with Winter Camp and seeing friends again so I'm just going to throw up some photos from our time in Vietnam.

We did a fair bit of travel in Vietnam as the country is far longer than I had realized. During our vacation we actually traveled through 7 airports over our 14 days (Seoul, Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh, Siem Reap and Bangkok). Though all our flights (except the ones from and to Korea) were only an hour in length so the travel didn't consume much time at all.

Our favourite city in Vietnam was Hoi An (with Hue as a very close second). We enjoyed Hanoi a fair bit and didn't really like Ho Chi Minh very much. Though we were glad we made a brief stop there as the Reunification Palace was definitely worth a visit. This was the home of the South Vietnamese President during the war and it's where the war officially ended when the North came crashing in with their tanks as the remaining Americans evacuated from the rooftops of Saigon in their helicopters. We even got to watch a video about the war from a very different perspective after our tour.





Here we are in Hanoi in front of Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum. We were allowed inside to see his body (it was a lot cooler than it sounds).





This is us in Hue. About 2 minutes after we took this photo we got monsoon levels of rain. We actually took our ponchos off for this photo, but luckily got them back on in time.


In this photo you can see us with our ponchos on. It rained a lot in Hue, but we still had a really good time there. I felt like a fool at first wandering around in my blue poncho, but I kind of miss it now. You can't really see it but we're at the entrance to the Forbidden Palace of Vietnam.


We encountered a fair range of weather over our two weeks away. When we left Korea it was around 0 degrees, Hanoi was about 16, Hue 18-19, Hoi An 20-22, Ho Chi Minh 25, Angkor 27-30 and Bangkok 35. So it gradually got hotter as our trip progressed. Which worked out fairly well since I think I might have died from the heat if we had gone straight into Thailand. I'll try and post some from Thailand and Angkor in the next few days. You'll definitely notice a chance in our clothing as the weather heats up.