Vietnam and China trip
So in less than a week, Trish and I head out to Vietnam and China!
It will be a 2 week trip, and we pretty much got the game plan put together.
Hanoi will be our home base of sorts, and for the first week we will do trips set up out of Hanoi. The first one will be to Halong Bay, which is a beautiful set of islands. Will do some kayaking there.
Then we will head up into the mountains in Vietnam to the Sapa area. Hang out with some mountain folks and do mountain folk like stuff.
After that we will head to China, or to Yunnan Province specifically, since China is huge. Its the size of America, but a country in Asia, so when I say we are going to visit China, we are really visiting like the Colorado equivalent of China.
Going there, since the place has the southeast reaches of the Himalayas so I can see at least one section of them in my life. Will be able to go up on to some glaciers that are 4,500 meters above sea level (thats 14,700 feet up), and we will go hiking along Tiger Leaping Gorge.
And then it will be back to Hanoi. While we are in Hanoi it would be cool to check out the Ho Minh Chi, the communist revolutionary leader, since he is embalmed and on display just like Mao and Lenin. Fitting in any other communist stuff would be cool as well.
Will be a short 2 week trip, by backpacker standards. I kind of wanted to do a big long 2 month farwell tour of Asia, but o'well, this will be a nice greatest hits final tour. It will be nice to be back in Canada as soon as possible anyways.
After the trip it will be just one month until we are back in Canada! Hurah!
It will be a 2 week trip, and we pretty much got the game plan put together.
Hanoi will be our home base of sorts, and for the first week we will do trips set up out of Hanoi. The first one will be to Halong Bay, which is a beautiful set of islands. Will do some kayaking there.
Then we will head up into the mountains in Vietnam to the Sapa area. Hang out with some mountain folks and do mountain folk like stuff.
After that we will head to China, or to Yunnan Province specifically, since China is huge. Its the size of America, but a country in Asia, so when I say we are going to visit China, we are really visiting like the Colorado equivalent of China.
Going there, since the place has the southeast reaches of the Himalayas so I can see at least one section of them in my life. Will be able to go up on to some glaciers that are 4,500 meters above sea level (thats 14,700 feet up), and we will go hiking along Tiger Leaping Gorge.
And then it will be back to Hanoi. While we are in Hanoi it would be cool to check out the Ho Minh Chi, the communist revolutionary leader, since he is embalmed and on display just like Mao and Lenin. Fitting in any other communist stuff would be cool as well.
Will be a short 2 week trip, by backpacker standards. I kind of wanted to do a big long 2 month farwell tour of Asia, but o'well, this will be a nice greatest hits final tour. It will be nice to be back in Canada as soon as possible anyways.
After the trip it will be just one month until we are back in Canada! Hurah!