Vietnam, December 16 - January 2

Eden and I will be leaving for Vietnam this Thursday. We have a rough idea of where we'll be going and we'll try to post to this blog when we're on the road. We'll be flying into Hanoi and then slowly working our way south to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Our rough itinerary is as follows:
Dec 16 - arrive in Hanoi at 10:30 pm.
Dec 17-18 - explore Hanoi. Capital of Vietnam. See Ho Chi Minh's mummified corpse, etc.
Dec 19-21 - Halong bay. Limestone cliffs. Overnight train to Hue
Dec 22-23 - explore Hue. World Heritage Site
Dec 24-26 - explore HoiAn. World Heritage Site
Dec 27 -28 - fly to Saigon, try not to be run over by cyclos.
Dec 29-31 - visit Mekong Delta
Dec 31 - new years eve in Saigon
Jan 1 - finish up in Saigon and go to the airport
Jan 2 - 1 am leave Saigon

So Vietnam is pretty much the last of the Southeast Asian countries we've really wanted to visit. If we had more time we'd like to travel around southern China and Laos as well as maybe diving in the Philippines, but you have to make choices.

Lantern festival in Kumamoto city around October 16, 2004.