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Our friends of Hanoi

local Vietnamese street

As we were due to arrive in Hanoi late and the likelihood of hostels being closed for the night, we pre-booked using Hostelbookers, which is far easier to use than Hostelworld (yes, we have used both a few times).  Our A/C, luxury taxi took us to the door, where we were greeted well, but with …

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Back to the Andes and wine tasting in Mendoza

Wide view of Maipu and around

We arrived in the massive bus terminal of Mendoza at 10pm, breaking our usual rule of booking somewhere in advance when we arrive in a new city. This is simply because you have to pay more, so we are pushing our rules to see if it is needed. As a wise man said “if we …

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Agra and the Taj

The only issue of our 26 hour delay was the fact that we had 2 days in Agra to see the town. Although we this was the only place that we were going to only see a tourist sight 2 days would have been good. We landed at 12:30pm and had our train out to …

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