Tag: Travel Blog
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SAIGON – VIETNAM
28/1/23 – 31/1/23 I finally found my accommodation for my time in Saigon – 60 Inn, located down an alley not far from Tao Dan Park. This accommodation was really well situated and came equipped with a small kitchen – not that I intended to do any cooking! – and the owner, Sonny, was still…
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REUNIFICATION EXPRESS VIA HUE – VIETNAM
26/1/23 – 28/1/23 I had decided prior to coming on this trip that I wanted to experience train travel in Vietnam on what is commonly known as the Reunification Express – a train line which runs from Hanoi, the capital, and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), the former capital of South Vietnam. Following the end…
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HANOI – VIETNAM
23/1/23 – 26/1/23 Waking up at 3am either means that you’re having a bad night’s sleep, or you have an early morning flight to catch! Luckily for me, it was the latter, and after a quick drop-off at the airport, I was on my way to Vietnam. I won’t bore anyone with the details of…
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KHIVA – UZBEKISTAN
29/6/2022 – 2/7/2022 I woke up this morning, ate breakfast, and made sure that I was ready to depart for Khiva. There are several ways to get from Bukhara to Khiva, including a train line, private drivers, shared taxis, and marshrutkas. I had spoken to the guy who ran the place I had stayed at…
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BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN
26/6/2022 – 29/6/2022 To get from Samarkand to Bukhara, I had decided to forgo the comfort of the Afrosiyob train in favour of the Soviet-built Sharq train, both so I could leave Samarkand later, and so that I could experience some historical Soviet engineering. I left the guesthouse at around 11:00am, and caught a Yandex…
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SAMARKAND – UZBEKISTAN
22/6/2022 – 26/6/2022 This morning, I woke up early, gathered my things, woke up the hotel manager (who was asleep on the couch by his desk!) and checked out. Whilst waiting for a Yandex I had ordered to the train station – you absolutely need this app on your phone if you’re travelling in Uzbekistan,…
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TASHKENT – UZBEKISTAN
19/6/2022 – 22/6/2022 This morning, I woke up early, double-checked all my bags, and checked out of my hotel in Istanbul. I was finally off to Uzbekistan! I caught the same Havaist bus that I caught from the airport, again 52 lira ($4.20), expecting the trip to take a similar amount of time. I was…
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