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Posted by reasons on Dec 23, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | Comments Off on High Rise Horticulture

Houses packed as close as Lego bricks with little room for a blade of grass let alone a garden in parts of Ho Chi Minh. But up on roof...

Posted by reasons on Dec 22, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places, Photos, Walking | Comments Off on Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park

‘Only just opening up’. It was this accolade which made Phong-Nha Ke Bang National Park my first trip out of Ho Chi Minh. Quang Binh...

Posted by reasons on Dec 13, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places, Walking | Comments Off on Nuoc Mooc Eco Trail

My penultimate day in Phong Nha-Ke National Park felt more like the North West of England than Vietnam....

At last I have climbed a mountain in Vietnam. A real mountain not a metaphorical one. Phong Ke Bang National Park is still...

Posted by reasons on Dec 8, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places | Comments Off on Phong Ke Bang National Park

Out of HCMC and to Phong Ke Bang National Park. Dramatic landscape. Jagged mountains rise like ill kept molars from deep valleys and...