Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / June 2007

I will be traveling to Southeast Asia in November for a 2 week stay.
The majority of the stay will be split between Bangkok and Hua Hin.
However, I would like to take a 3 day or so excursion to another
city.  Currently I'm considering Chiang Mai and Hanoi.  I would

Hi, I would like to know if someone went from Vietnam to Chine or if
it is possible to go through border Vietnam - China (where?). Is it
possible to get Chinese visa in Ha Noi ? Thanks a lot.

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I would like to visit Vietnam in December and make an organized tour.
On the Internet I found the travelagency of Sinhcafe in Hanoi.
Does anybody has recent experience (good or bad) with this agency ?
Please let me know.

Hey, Bob! Guess who showed up at my condominium this afternoon? Yep,
that's right! The Immigration Police. But surprisingly, they didn't
want to talk to me or about me.
They wanted to talk with the condo manager.... ABOUT   YOU!

I have just been to Vietnam & Cambodia, and I had a great time.

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be interested in THE ORIENTAL-LIST.
Now more than ten years old and with several hundred members, the list
provides a forum for the discussion of travel in China, and across

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Killiney is literally a stone's throw away from Orchard Road in
Singapore, but hardly visited by tourists.  There's not much to see as
such, but it's an unknown food haven.
View the photos of the Killiney Road area at:

New train coaches will enter service on the Japanese Shinkansen
services between Tokyo and Hakata (Fukuoka) on July 1st.  Named Series
N700, these new cars were co-developed by JR Central (which owns the
Tokyo to Shin-Osaka Tokaido Shinkansen) and JR West (which owns the

Ha Long Bien Ngoc Company established on the October in 2004 By whose
founded the Hai Au Company ten years ago.
   With the achievement we were gather in over than ten years to
served the tourists visiting in Halong Bay by ship. And now Ha Long

Readers of rec.travel.asia with a particular interest in China may also
be interested in THE ORIENTAL-LIST.
Now more than ten years old and with several hundred members, the list
provides a forum for the discussion of travel in China, and across

Is it DIG?  Thanks.
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I recently posted a request on another forum asking for the name of a
photographer in Chiang Mai. As a first time poster there, I figured this
would be my best bet in terms of finding the info I needed. I was informed
that a gentleman by the name of Steve Kramer was the person ...