OLIVER JOEST

Category: Vietnam

  • Ho Chi Minh City

    Ho Chi Minh City

    The two days I spent in the southern Metropole of Vietnam were super relaxed. Some walking around at night time, a visit to the unification palace and admiration for the unwritten laws that keep the traffic participants alive. From this point onwards I am on my own once again. Heading to Bangkok to meet my…

  • Throwback Hoi An

    Throwback Hoi An

    I just recently finished another unit of work in Bangkok. My guilt is driving me to update the Tumblr. Somehow the travel made me lazy and I hadn’t picked up the keyboard for an extended period. But now I am back with some fresh updates. The images in this post were taken almost 3 weeks…

  • PADI Open Water / Surprise Destination

    PADI Open Water / Surprise Destination

    In Nha Trang I took the decision to start the PADI Open Water Diver certification. The town itself is dedicated to serious Russian holiday dreams. But once you leave the town on a ship in direction of the Hon Mun Marine Park it becomes more silent. When you enter the crystal clear water even more…

  • From Ban Ho to Ta Phin to Sapa

    From Ban Ho to Ta Phin to Sapa

    The trek ended in a Red Dzao Homestay in Ta Phin where we were able to get a prime herbal bath. The tribe people would collect the herbs in the rain forest surrounding the property and cook it in a giant copper bowl over an open fire for hours. The extract would then be poured…

  • From Ta Van to Bang Ho

    From Ta Van to Bang Ho

    Our route went from Sapa to Ta Van for the first night. From there we continued the route along the mountains to Ban Ho where we’d stay another night. The trek was ambitious without being overwhelming. The daily walking of 6 hours and around 15 Kilometers were a nice contrast to the last weeks in…

  • 4 days and 3 nights in Sapa

    4 days and 3 nights in Sapa

    The bus from Hanoi was a weird experience. No real two level bus, not a real sleeper, something in between. We left Hanoi very early to reach Sapa the basecamp for many trekkers in northern Vietnam around lunch time. The town in the north close to the Chinese border overwhelmed us with the different weather,…

  • Railroad Street

    Railroad Street

    You can find a street in Hanoi that has train tracks in the middle of it. People just live next door to the tracks and I guess the train ain’t coming often.