I searched for Vietnam Travel Blogs, hoping to find really
impartial reviews and information about travel lodging and dinning in Vietnam,
but most of what I found was very much commercial advertising sites. These are
the most interesting & informative Blogs (some what). If you know a good one, please add to this list.
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/
http://my.opera.com/thehiddencharm/blog/
http://realtravel.com/de-1229-vietnam_real_trips
http://www.travelpod.com/blogs/0/Vietnam.html
http://www.vietnam.com/add_blog_post
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Vietnam/TravelGuide-Vietnam.html
These are few Vietnamese Blogs and Blogs that contain subjects related to Vietnam or Vietnamese. Post your comments and evaluation. Have fun.
From Viet Nam
- Royby.com: The personal weblog of a chap teaching "Web Construction" at RMIT International University. Some snaps. Saigon.
- Remittance Girl: "Multimedia designer, wannabe writer, general all around curious person." Another personal weblog. Saigon.
- No Star Where - Personal weblog with links to local news and me. Saigon. UPDATE: Now in NYC and blogging here.
- Here I go again - Newbie EFL Teacher called Alison Bradley. Saigon.
- Our Man in Hanoi - KOTO PR fundraising maestro, VSO volunteer, regular commenter at noodlepie and fellow lover of the great British greasy spoon. Hanoi. UPDATE: He's moved here.
- I love the smell of coffee in the morning... - Personal weblog with pics. Hanoi.
- Pourqois non? - EFL teaching and yeast infections from Carrie. Saigon.
- Vietish - Another VSO volunteer and TV star based in beautiful Yen Bai City
- Toi la Nguoi - Gets in bother with Saigon's underbelly. Author has now left Vietnam. Saigon. UPDATE: Toi la Nguoi has left the building. Shame.
- Nhin cai ga? - Personal weblog of Linda Park in English with pictures. Saigon.
- upside gone: down in saigon - Beers, girls, shagging and no capital letters. Saigon.
- Cottontimer - LiveJournal of an expat Mum in Saigon, regular commenter at noodlepie. She updates her site daily and has lots of photos. Saigon. UPDATE: Now moved to London and blogging here.
- Good Morning Vietnam - Diary style weblog of Minty Russel. Saigon, I think.
- Virtual Doug - Vietnam Vet, teacher and pavement pounder. Hue.
- Our Hanoi Blog - Personal weblog from a Network Engineer/Mac user. She has Tiger... grrr. With some pics. Hanoi.
- Wendy Yanagihara in Vietnam - Lonely Planet writer updating Southeast Asia on a Shoestring. Vietnamwide.
- My Tho, Vietnam Surgical Trip - Interesting diary of an Interplast Surgical Volunteer. My Tho
- Ed and Oren's Vietnam Bike Ride Blog - Self explanatory. Vietnamwide.
- NamViet.net - General stuff, some politics. In English and Vietnamese. Dunno where.
- Blo-Chi-Minh - In French. All about living and travelling in Vietnam. Inactive since June, 2004. Dunno location.
- Vietnamese God - By a Vietnamese guy from Nha Trang, but living in Hanoi. He blogs in English. Good English. Hanoi/Nha Trang.
- The Alpha Project - Diary come novel come stream of conciousness. Some pics. Hanoi.
- Hanoi Days - Diary style written by JC, a British guy working for the Bao Nhan Dan Newspaper. Some pics. Hanoi
- Philip's Vietnam Diary - Diary of experiences cataloguing Philip's time in Vietnam from August 2004 - August 2005. Some photo albums. Saigon.
- Ipa Nima - A blog by bag designer Christina all about her Ipa-Nima hand bags. Hanoi.
- Xin Chao Vietnam - Ola! A travelogue blog in Spanish with pics. Vietnamwide.
- Jess on the road - "Vietnam/Cambodia 2005: Travels of a former business journalist." Vietnamwide.
- Diary of love - In Vietnamese. Not sure what it's about. Love?
- Tuyen Dung - In Vietnamese. All about jobs.
- The Rice Bowl - A yoga practicing English teacher who sounds rather fun. Saigon
- Down and Out in Saigon - Blog of another expat teaching English. Saigon.
- Travelblog - Saigon - Blogs and travel journals from the south of Vietnam. Some pics.
- Thanh Long - A travel blog. Experiences in Vietnam by Sean Lovell. Hanoi.
- Vietnam Journalism - Vietnamese journalist Le Quoc Minh provides insight into journalism in Vietnam including 'personal stories by journalists on their life and work.' Vietnamwide.
- Clear Path International - Work with landmine and bomb victims in Vietnam and elsewhere. Vietnamwide.
- Such is life - A personal weblog in English of Vietnamese student Van. Hanoi
- Noodle Journal - From a Vietnamese student called Phuong about study.
- My translation diary - A personal weblog by someone by the name of Dich Thuat. He also keeps a 'wedding diary'
- VietnamTours - Tien Nguyen is a tour guide.
- Kia Ora Vietnam - A Kiwi couple in the early 50's living and working in Hanoi.
- Antidote to Burnout - An architect who lived in Vietnam in the 70's returns to work in Hanoi.
- Sticky Rice - If it's the Hanoi food scene you wanna check out, these are the guys for you.
- No Star Where has a list of Vietnamese student blogs here and here.
- Step2Vn - A blog about mobile technology in Vietnamese.
- A Viet soul in Texas - Vietnamese expatriate/student in the US.
- Vietnam travel guide and good friend to have - Tour guide about guiding and looking for people to guide. Hanoi.
- Sky's Vietnam Diary - Diary of a Danish expat trainee project leader and IT developer. Saigon.
- Renee's Weblog - The life of a volunteer in Vietnam. With photos. Saigon.
- A country on the change - Written in English by a woman called geminicat27, a Hanoian living in Saigon
- ABC of Vietnamese blogs - List of blogs in Vietnamese & English and some in Vietnam
- Elmoooh - Young Vietnamese chap, with good written English, blogging from Hanoi. With photos.
- Street Kids in Vietnam - A regular update on the work of Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, a grassroots charity working in Vietnam with street kids and the poorest of the poor.
- The Final Word. He's a British English teacher, plays footie for the Saigon Raiders and is engaged to a Vietnamese girl. He lives in Saigon.
- Hau, friend of Elmoooh, and an 'outted' Vietnamese guy living in Hanoi blogging in English at Hanoi Rainbow.
- Vietnam 555-333 is a French language blog. I think the numeric name refers to fags and booze. But I could be wrong.
- Chris blogs at Charvey in Vietnam.
- Rose's Blog - The blog of Rose Nguyen who works for Humanitarian Services For Children Of Vietnam.
- Les Tontons Blogueurs - In French, and I am very reliably informed, bloody hilarious. From Can Tho/Saigon.
- Gia Linh - A blog, in Vietnamese, all about a subject very close to most Vietnamese hearts - babies.
- 15 May School - Not strictly a blog, but a site/blog about a restaurant that helps children 'escape the streets' in Saigon
- Vietnam, Photos and Notes of a very personal war - Reminiscence and photos of a British soldier serving in the Mekong Delta, Tay Ninh, Phan Thiet and elsewhere.
- vietnamesegod.blogspot.com (from Ha Noi)
- thealphaproject.blogspot.com (from Ha Noi)
- hanoidays.blogspot.com (from Ha Noi)
- http://www.noodlepie.com/2005/06/vietnam_blogs.html
- http://www.itsthefinalword.blogspot.com/
- VisualGUI.com
- http://vietnamwatch.blogspot.com/
- http://immigration.freedomblogging.com/category/vietnam/
- http://my.opera.com/thehiddencharm/blog/
- http://vietnam.blogs.wvu.edu/
- http://dir.blogflux.com/tag/vietnam
- http://vietnamstreets.blogspot.com/
- http://www.gadling.com/category/vietnam/
- http://www.potatomato.com/blog/?tag=vietnamese
- http://vietnamtravelblog.com/
- http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamarchive/reference/blog/index.htm
- http://www.elittlesaigon.com/
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