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2) Vietnam
Publisher
Escapi New Media Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Starting in Ho Chi Minh City, this tour of Vietnam takes you to the beaches of Lang Go, the city of Hue, the capital Hanoi, and the remote highlands near the Chinese boarder.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
James Sullivan's Over the Moat details his travels in Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, the planned three-month bike trip in the fall of 1992 takes a detour.
Here, in a city spliced by the famed Perfume River and filled with French baroque villas,...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam's notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads missing from maps. Hunt left the United States expecting to explore the 1,700-kilometer highway that was once the supply route for the North Vietnamese Army. He soon found himself roaming the Vietnamese countryside in need of...