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A journey through Vietnam
Sep 2nd, 2011 at 1:00PM:
Lost in a world of Skype and Reddit at Gadling Labs this morning, we were thrilled to get a dispatch from our friend Sean over at Vimeo. In a A Journey Through Vietnam, Leon Visser and his friends capture a summer vacation taken through the budget friendly nation of Vietnam, complete with plenty of local portraits, breathtaking scenery and a good beat to boot. It's the perfect sort of ...
10 countries Americans need advance visas to visit
Aug 17th, 2011 at 12:00PM: We live in an increasingly borderless world and we have access to many countries that were closed (or non-existent) 20 years ago. As reported earlier this week, Americans are especially lucky with access to 169 countries visa free. Still, there are still many countries that Americans need advance visas to visit. Visa applications and processing services can cost several hundreds of dollars and ...Traveler Q & A: Pavia Rosati
Aug 2nd, 2011 at 9:30AM: Pavia Rosati is the founder of Fathom, a recently debuted travel website. Fathom is smart and beautifully designed. It's full of exciting short briefs about various destinations across the globe.
Rosati, as you'll see from her answers below, is an experienced editor and an avid traveler. Her enthusiasm for Fathom's subject matter is palpable and infectious. We love Fathom and can't wait to see ...Photo of the day - Vietnamese flower seller
Jul 7th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Sometimes (for instance during a summer day of on-again-off-again rain in London) only a major splash of color will do. Today's Photo of the Day, by Luke Robinson, accomplishes this end very well. This Vietnamese flower seller is surrounded by brilliant hues, made all the more noticeable by the gray metal backdrop. Even the blue of the flower seller's jacket is bright and compelling.
Got an ...Cobras cause panic on train in Vietnam
May 30th, 2011 at 8:30AM:
Passengers on a train in Vietnam got an unwelcome shock when dozens of cobras and king cobras were seen slithering under the seats.
The train, traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, was stopped at Quang Ngai when the incident happened. Apparently someone was smuggling the animals when they broke loose. Police gathered up 45 kilos (99lb) worth of snakes but didn't find the smuggler.
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Video of the Day - Journey through Asia
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:00PM:
If you have 4 minutes to spare and a virtual tour through Thailand, Cambodia, & Vietnam strikes your fancy; sit back and enjoy this beautiful montage from filmmaker Ivan Vania.
Shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and set to a soundtrack by Yann Tiersen (composer of the score for Amélie), it's an incredibly vivid depiction of the boat rides, temples, smiles, and landscapes that many ...
Rescuers work to save "sacred" Vietnamese turtle
Mar 8th, 2011 at 11:30AM: How do you save a sacred Vietnamese turtle? Very, very carefully, according to dozens of veterinarian workers in Hanoi who are trying to capture a rare giant turtle in desperate need of medical attention from Vietnam's Hoan Kiem Lake.
Workers waded through the lake to try to save the giant freshwater turtle so it could be pulled to land and treated. The animal - one of only four Rafeteus ...Vietnam authorities suspend tour company over deaths
Mar 7th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Citing negligence, Vietnam authorities suspended a tour company responsible for the deaths of 12 tourists killed last month when the boat they were sleeping on sank.
AZ Queen Company had clients from nine different countries including Americans, Austrailans and Britons sleeping on a tour boat anchored in Ha Long Bay near the Vietnam-Chinese border when the aged vessel suddenly filled with ...Rarest mammal in the world caught on video in Indonesia
Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:30AM:
The Javan rhinoceros is widely considered the rarest mammal in the world. Flirting with extinction for decades, it is estimated that only forty of the beast remain on the island of Java in Indonesia and less than ten in southern Vietnam. Once the most widespread rhino species, poachers and human development have made life increasingly difficult for the small rhino. None exist in captivity.
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Archaeologists discover "Great Wall of Vietnam"
Jan 29th, 2011 at 10:00AM: Archaeologists in central Vietnam have discovered what locals are calling the "Great Wall of Vietnam", The Korean Times reports.
The wall is up to 4 meters (13 ft.) high in spots and stretches for 127 km (78 miles). While parts of it are an earth embankment instead of a stone wall, it's still a major engineering feat and the longest monument in Southeast Asia. It's almost as long as Hadrian's ...Photo of the Day - English Class in Vietnam
Jan 24th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
As we travel the world taking in the sights and sounds, it's often easy to forget that the people whom we romanticize are just people living their own lives and trying to fulfill their own dreams. Those workers tending rice paddies, artisans weaving tapestries and farmers herding livestock may make for some fanastic stories when we return home, but they all remain where we saw them, taking on ...World's largest cave passage finally revealed
Jan 6th, 2011 at 12:00PM:
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For whatever reason, caves appeal to me. And although I'm admittedly a novice, my brawniness negotiated only by yoga, caving appeals to me, as well. I just started exploring caves a few years ago and have found my efforts to expand on the practice stifled by White Nose Syndrome, a condition that has left bats for dead in caves from Canada to Oklahoma. ...Q & A with travel and food writer Zora O'Neill
Dec 14th, 2010 at 11:30AM: Zora O'Neill is a travel and food writer, an editor, and the co-founder (with Tamara Reynolds) of an underground Astoria supper club so successful that it eventually spawned Forking Fantastic!, a cookbook and entertaining guide.
Zora has authored guidebooks for Lonely Planet, Moon, and Rough Guides. Her expertise runs from Egypt to Amsterdam to her home state of New Mexico and on to the ...Gadling's favorite destinations for 2011
Dec 7th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
We travel a lot, to destinations both well-known and unfamiliar. In our defense, it is our job to travel like mad, to explore the world and then write about our discoveries.
Though most travel writers find something or other of interest in most places we visit, there are always those personal favorites that rise above the rest. This year, we decided to scribble our favorites down for you. ...Top ten cheap local fast food items worldwide
Dec 2nd, 2010 at 10:30AM: Food is usually a major cost on the road, a significant component of any careful travel budget. Very good, inexpensive food is on offer in most of the world's destinations, no matter how expensive average meals may be. Here are ten delicious fast food items from ten different destinations around the world.
1. Burritos, San Francisco. San Franciscans are passionate about their burritos. It's ...Dream Travel Blogger Job: Get $10,000 to eat your way across Asia
Nov 18th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
Travel junkies, food lovers and fellow travel bloggers, listen up. We've found another dream job - or shall we say "dream temporary gig" that will allow to eat your way across Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, China and Japan and get paid $10,000 for the pleasure.
Pei Wei Asian Diner (a sister restaurant company to P.F. Chang's) recently launched a search for an international correspondent to ...Weekend travel media top five
Nov 1st, 2010 at 10:00AM: Among the best travel stories this last weekend of October: emerging Armenia, undervisited Northern Vietnam, a rail journey across China, top spots to celebrate Halloween (start your research for Halloween 2011 here!), and a wine-free tour of St. Helena, California.
1. In the Financial Times, Teresa Levonian Coles writes about the emergence of Armenia as a tourist destination. Her piece is ...Adventures in Eating: the Mekong Rat
Aug 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: When is a rat not a rat? I was about to find out at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese metropolis everyone still calls Saigon. After traveling around this country for two weeks, consuming everything I could and saying no to nothing, I received an education in eating. I didn't intentionally eat all the "weird" stuff, but if it was offered, I took it.
In this instance, I was eating ...Photo of the Day (8.6.10)
Aug 6th, 2010 at 7:00PM:
I love the colors, the motion, and the title of this photo (Hanoi Breakfast) by andreakw. Is it the social whir behind the woman in the foreground? Is it her intensity? Is it simply dinnertime in my time zone?
This image is an easy reminder that breakfast is a culturally bound concept. That the pho' in question also looks terribly delicious, spicy and dense with noodles, is also very ...Travel Q&A with author & cook Tamara Reynolds
Jul 14th, 2010 at 2:30PM: Tamara Reynolds is a the co-founder (with Zora O'Neill) of The Sunday Night Dinner, an Astoria, Queens-based supper club. The Sunday Night Dinner, which continues to thrive, was well ahead of what has become a supper club trend. Out of the Sunday Night Dinner came a fabulous cookbook, Forking Fantastic, which Reynolds co-authored with O'Neill. Travel is key to Reynolds' imagination as a cook. She ...
