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My Vietnam Experience: Ninh Binh

By Emily / 17 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip… We left Dong Hoi at 7am knowing that today was going to be the longest travel day of the trip.

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My Vietnam Experience: Hue

By Emily / 15 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip… The trip from Hoi An to Hue took no time at all, with a couple of noteworthy things en route.

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My Vietnam Experience: Hoi An

By Emily / 14 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip… The first thing to grab my attention as we drove into Hoi An at dusk where the beautiful (Chinese) lanterns dotted along the streets.

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My Vietnam Experience: Introducing the Crew

By Emily / 13 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip… The next day we had Naomi join us. She had been unable to start the tour with us in Ho Chi Minh because of a delay getting her visa but was now happily united with the […]

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My Vietnam Experience: Qui Nhon

By Emily / 12 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip…

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My Vietnam Experience: Stray’s Buon Ma Thuot Homestay

By Emily / 11 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys continues to make us all jealous as she travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip… We got into Buon Ma Thuot by early afternoon, where the whole group would stay in a traditional house – an experience exclusive to Stray.

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My Vietnam Experience: Vietnamese Roads and Language on the way to Buon Ma Thuot

By Emily / 10 December 2013
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Stray New Zealander Keys (aka Eileen) continues her travels on Stray’s very first Vietnam trip….. We headed out of Dalat and eventually made our way back down to sea level. The trip took us over another mountain range with stunning views of coffee plantations as far as the eye could see.

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My Vietnam Experience: Dalat

By Emily / 9 December 2013
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Keys (aka Eileen) is a Tour Leader with Stray New Zealand, and also our Environmental Officer, based in our head office in Auckland. A keen and experienced traveller, we sent her off to Vietnam for the very first Stray trip, to explore and report back on her experience…

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My Vietnam Experience: Pre-Stray, Ho Chi Minh City

By Travel Mate (guest blogger) / 7 December 2013
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Keys (aka Eileen) is a Tour Leader with Stray New Zealand, and also our Environmental Officer, based in our head office in Auckland. A keen and experienced traveller, we sent her off to Vietnam for the very first Stray trip, to explore and report back on her experience…

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A Village Homestay: Visiting Ban Lad Khammune with Stray

By Emily / 26 November 2013
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The giggles were everywhere. They started on the concrete stairway leading up from the boat jetty. We’d just arrived at a small village along the Mekong River in Northern Laos, and the children were the first to greet us.

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Why Hop-Off in Luang Prabang in Laos?

By Emily / 30 October 2013
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Spiritual capital, slow boat end-point and UNESCO heritage city, Luang Prabang is a completely unique destination in Laos. It has a rare combination of French colonial history, traditional Lao village life, and a potent Buddhist influence through every street, and is a place you could easily spend two weeks or more. Even if you can’t […]

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My Weekend At Raglan Surf School

By Intern @ Stray / 15 October 2013
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Last weekend I went with all the other interns to Raglan for our first ever surfing lesson. This is what a weekend at Raglan Surf School is all about.

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How The Cambodian People And Culture Inspired Me

By Emily / 7 October 2013
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Having never previously spent over 48 hours in Cambodia, I was blown away on my last visit there by the people.  Living in Laos for six months had provided me with a certain preconception about how the local Cambodian people would be.

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Newsflash!! Stray Asia Launches Into Vietnam

By Emily / 16 September 2013
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Chao everyone! Stray is getting further off the beaten track, local Viet style! That’s right, Vietnam has now been added to our hop-on hop-off Southeast Asian travel network, and here in the Stray offices, we are all pretty excited about it. Holly and the Stray Asia team have been busy sussing out the best spots […]

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6 Awesome yet Weird Food You Have to Try in Southeast Asia… If You Are Brave Enough!

By Emily / 29 August 2013
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There’s a wealth of opportunity for adventure in the food scene of Southeast Asia, and we’re here to take you through some of the more… exotic options. Are you brave enough?

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