DavidHarveysMonkey
Am hoping to be in Thailand at the end of Jan for some business - Thailand V Iran - and was thinking of doing something like the mEKONG rIVER. aNY Tips on great journeys out there? Ive been to samui and bangkok, I'd rather see something amazing.
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ObL69
You've got to visit that place in Apocalypse Now where Kurtz has his base... is that on the Mekong river? The horror, the horror...
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DavidHarveysMonkey
so the mekong is boring to go up?
Sir_Gaylord_Retardo
I see a mutual friend of ours has recently posted some photos on facebook of his adventures since he moved there. I don't think you should look him up though. Each one is him with either a whore, a bancock ladyboy or both
DavidHarveysMonkey
I thought he'd moved to cockfosters and is commuting to Saltaire.
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Easy_Tiger
Go to Laos and smoke opium with monks, then visit the plain of jars
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Ho Chi Minh is an experience if you are in the area. The centre of town is amazing but also the War Remnants Museum, Cu Chi Tunnels, Mekong River are worth a look. Only an hour flight from Phomn Penh so could probably do both.Not been to Laos but reckon Vientiane would be ace.
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oneallanclarke
There are some decent one day tours from Saigon if you're limited for time. One will take you out to the Cu Chi tunnels and firing range and also the totally bizarre Cao Dao temple described The Quiet American. The Mekong trip is all right but a bit of a tourist trap. I got to sit on the prow of our speedboat and imagine I was Willard. Probably plenty of other twats doing the same thing at the same time on other boatsIn Saigon the War Remnants museum is a very sobering experience but worth doing and I also enjoyed being shown round the old S Vietnamese government building by a breathtakingly beautiful Vietnamese CP member lassie dressed in an Ao Dai (her, not me). Food's great and the Vietnamese people we met were good laugh if when we got to talk to them and and they weren't just looking to part us from our $$$ as quickly as possible. One fun thing we did was head out to a big amusement/water park on the edge of town, get totally caned while going round on a ferris wheel about four or five times and then immediately headback into the city on the back of motorcycle taxis in the rush hourBest place in the whole of SE Asia, possibly the most memorable place I've ever been, is Angkor in Cambodia. Can't describe how brilliant it is to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat. Place is so sprawling that if you go to some of the temples in the early morning, you've got them more or less to yourself. Siem Reap has some pretty decent hotels and easy to fly in and out of from anywhere in SE AsiaWent to Laos last year and really enjoyed it. Not much to do or see in Vientiane although it's pleasant enough but Luang Prabang is a really chilled place; great renovated French colonial hotels and rerataurants, picturesque temples, at the confluence of the Mekong and another river, plenty of scenic spots nearby. We had an afternoon splashing about in the pools at the bottom of a big waterfall. If you go from Vientiane to Luang Prabang or vice-versa by bus you can break your journey in Vang Vieng. Overrun by gap year Max Gogarty-type twats but inner tubing on the river while getting boxed is a good laughI really like Chiang Mai; pretty laidback with quite arty scene among the foreigners. Very different from the meathead farang that infest the rest of Thailand. Probably quite cold at night if you go at the end of January so pack a sweater
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Top post oneallanclarke. I think you should be the official OMJ travel consultant.
king_of_the_slums
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DavidHarveysMonkey
had a great time away now i'm back in bed with Jet Lag and Earache.
DavidHarveysMonkey
Jetlag's a ladyboy i married and Earache's his/her mother
DavidHarveysMonkey
Sent Dave Become Monster on a story to Thailand. Just had a text:DBM 1 Ladyboys 0
MDF
Was transitting at HCMC back home a couple of years ago. I had 5 days. Cu chi tunnels were great. It was quite awesome also to see the independence palace and the war remnants museum. But the boat market/ river market whatever you called it, came with a cooking class. I thought was very average. Had a couple of great street food meals recommended by the local hostel admin. Apparently backpackers were there to get a motorbike and go up north to Hanoi. Or Hanoi to HCMC. The rate I heard was you could have a bike for 400 usd and resell it in either HCMC or hanoi for more than 200. EVen though foreigners are not allowed to drive a vehicle in Vietnam. Just HCMC i would say 3 days is more than enough.
king_of_the_slums
I took our lass a few years ago, when I forgot her birthday one year. The food's excellent (some of the best Phô you'll ever eat) and Ho Chi Minh City's Reunification Palace is worth a walk around. We stayed at the Hilton Opera which was lovely. We had a Butler, not that we used him, but he made sure there was gin and tonic in the room. Graham Greene lived just down the road on the Rue Catinat at the Majestic and Grand hotels and used the place as a model for Fowler’s apartment in The Quiet American.
Let's get back to Pho though, this place is amazing... https://danielfooddiary.com/2017/12/01/phophuvuong/
