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Travel as internship
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Highway 19: From Sea To Mountains
Highway 19: From Sea To Mountains
As a goodbye to coastal lines of Tuy Hoa city, you may turn head westward, take a ride to the Central highland, kingdom of majestic mountains and breathe-taking passes to Pleiku via Highway 19.
The road is not completely well-maintained as well as industrial tree plantations contribute significantly to the view en route.
You will ride through 2 major pass including An Khe and Mang Yang, the…
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Highway 27: From Coffee Capital to Land of Flower
Highway 27: From Coffee Capital to Land of Flower
Central Highland of Vietnam is house to spectacular ranges of mountain and lakes. Among the best route, highway 27 features Chu Yang Sin mount, Lak lake with a secluded resort, Buon Tua Srah lake as reservoir for a hydro dam and a beautiful look out from a pass in Phi Lieng that you will never forget.
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Wild food you should try once in Central highland
Wild food you should try once in Central highland
Food is a great way to explore a country culture.
So I bet you might find it adventurous trying this food.
But it is worthy, maybe you would love it or hate it, but a lifetime moment tasting something new, right?
Ok, let’s try these typical food when in Central highland of Vietnam.
1. DRIED-BEEF (Bò một nặng)
It cost me 14$ for 0.5 kg of the special dried beef.
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If Ba Den mountain – the highest and most challenging summit in the south of Vietnam seems too much painful for you, so Chua Chan Mountain in Dong Nai province, the second highest peak, probably your perfectly alternative choice.
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Introduction
Located in Dong Nai, Chua Chan mountain (aka Gia Lao) is about 100 km away from Saigon. Standing as 837 m high, it is also the second-highest peak in the southeastern region of Vietnam, just after Black Virgin Mountain (Ba Den) in Tay Ninh, whose height is 996 m. It was recognized as a national heritage site in 2012.
It is interesting that Chua Chan used to be a volcano (so typical is the conical shape), and you may see it when taking a bus from Saigon to Phan Thiet as it locates close to the mainway.
In Vietnam, wherever there’s a mountain, there are temples or pagodas. Sharing the same fact, Chua Chan is home to three main pagodas Buu Quang, Linh Son, Lam Son.
Road to the mountain
There are 2 routes, depending on your vehicles: Fastest is on a car/ bus via expressway but I go for a motorcycle ride of freedom on 1A highway.
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Vendors by the staircase
The stone staircase upward the pagoda is steep and fully occupied with stores and food stalls. Some vendors might ask you to buy some goods, especially incense and candles if you are Vietnamese or Asian as they think you come to pray.
Despite the fact that stores ruins the sacred atmosphere of a pilgrimage, but they are beneficial somehow that provide travelling people with delicious food and cool drink, along with clothes, shoes, souvenirs. Someone says it hosts also so-called “spiritual services” including palmistry and fortune telling cards. Entertaining in karaoke rooms and resting overnight in hostels are also available.
Yeah, I think the “very special village” plays very well a role of the dedicated food street in a manner of “staircase to heaven”
The trail
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After leaving the cable car station behind, you start following a trail paved, which is sides with cajus and other lush trees. Be noticed that sometimes forks show no direction signs, and the general advice is to opt to the wider routes as they are likely towards the peak. If you go wrong way then it is also very short time to realize that situation and come back, which means, you may get lost, for a while, so no worry.
Wooden house by the spectacular view
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En route to the peak, you probably stop by a cottage hosting many hammocks for beautiful resting. Actually, when we came here, we saw a little garden full of baby pine so it is hopefully expected to be very green next year.
You could set up camp and cook there, a lot of campfire traces on the ground and you can collect big stones nearby for a temporary stove.
Cable car station
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With 1 km in length, the Cable car system hosts 72 cabin (8 pax /cabin), constructed by an Australian company. The surrounding is so colorful with flowers and plants neatly grown and take good care on a daily basis.
A return ticket costs 160,000 VND/ adult and 90,000 VND/ child (0.9m-1.2m ) and free for under 0,9m but charge as a adult if he is taller than 1.2m. You can buy bottled drink and ice-cream by a vendor inside for at least 15,000 VND for a 500ml bottle of coke.
It is hardly occupied by campers but we did it and enjoyed a wonderful night. In the next morning, someone told us that the night watcher thought it was devil as he heard our laughs but failed to see us. Amazing! I reveals more details in a below section.
The peak
Truth to be told, I didn’t make it for the very first attempt to the summit, below is collected information that would be useful for you and my second trial.
Depending on the season so the land is colored by green or yellowish brown look-like burnt grasses or lush plants. The breezes lure you into a calm nap with floating clouds rolling by near and far. It also provides a spectacularly panoramic view downward the neighborhoods below.
Camp fire
There are two suitable grounds to camp: At the summit and by the cottage.
For night trekkers
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As we planed to camp at night, so the experience was totally different from day hiking.
It was a little bit weird.
Starting at 10 PM at the foot of the mountain (10,000 parking fee/ night at a nearby house), you would see no one while taking step-by-step to the peak, but some prayer when you are close to the pagoda. Dogs everywhere and they are barking at you fiercely but nicely without any bites.
The vendor just resting on beds or hammocks but you hardly see them, little altar along with smell of incense. After the pagoda, you will experience a complete darkness of trail, and it should take you 1-2 hour to reach the summit.
If you don’t want to take risk (due to weather or so) then camp at the cable car station is pretty ideal but you may need a permission.
Bring home
It’s definitely crunchy banana chips with ginger that is a specialty as you see many many of them on the way back and local vendors ask if you would like to buy them as souvenirs.
“What’s your plan”
A typical plan for a day trekking should be like below:
5:00: Departing from Ho Chi Minh City
6:00: Have a breakfast (in Bien Hoa city)
9:00: Reach foot of the mountain, park your motorcycles (if any), prepare your backpacks and ready to start the staircase journey.
9:30: Starting the hike, head to the pagodas
10:30: End of the staircases, reach the pagoda, take rest then start the mountain trekking
12:00: At the summit, have lunch, take nap
14:00: Start descending
15:30: At the foot of the mountain, have drink and relax
16:00: Ride back
17:00: Have dinner in Bien Hoa city
17:30: Continue riding back to HCMc
19:00: In HCMc
For the night trekking, generally share the time schedule, if you departs from HCMc at 16:00 then you’re likely to reach the peak at midnight and welcome the sunrise at dawn on the next day (luckily you see a stunning sea of cloud) and get back at 8:00 then arrive in HCM at 14:00.
Outfit
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Pants and long sleeve better as the trail has a lot of tall grasses that makes you irritated, along with mosquitoes.
Weather does matter. We have a very bad rainy night and couldn’t make it to the summit, so, you’d better watch out for weather forecast before departure. It’s safe to trek on dry season but packing along a raincoat usually a good idea.
The path is easy to go, and it may have a little muddy terrain in rain season that probably makes you fall.
It is extremely comfortable to wear sandals in rain season. Normally, trekking shoes play pretty well, too.
Wanna protect your skin? A sun cream is perfect, though mostly you are covered by the shade
If you plan to camp overnight then a optional clothes to change is advised as it keep you dry while the cold and fog at night may make you get sick.
Hiking on a budget (2018)
100,000 VND Gasonline
60,000 VND two on-the-way meal (Pho is good option)
10,000 VND parking fee (per motorcycle)
100,000 VND self-prepared meal for one person at peak/ camping
30,000 VND water (3,0L)
10,000 VND raincoat
320K VND in Total ($15)
Alternative Choice If Ba Den mountain - the highest and most challenging summit in the south of Vietnam seems too much painful for you, so Chua Chan Mountain in Dong Nai province, the second highest peak, probably your perfectly alternative choice.
Photography is one of the reasons why people love travel.
It is admittedly that people have to pay a chunk of money to travel to a incredible destination, why don’t they have a stunning album to show off to boast our journeys?
However, most of us are amateur shooters and photographs are just for beautiful memories, the landscape is picturesque but through our lens, it looks so ordinary, not as subtle as ones captured by professional travel photographers.
This post won’t turn you into a super photographer overnight, but possibly improve your shooting skill.
The shooting field location is not included so that you will focus on how to shoot perfectly instead of “Could you please tell me where it is?”, which is not the purpose of the post.
Here we go !
The trunk
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The models are my companions on the trip and we had a wonderful shooting time with every amazing poses.
As you can see, we set up by a big old trunk playing as a background.
The first tip is to find a contrast background so that it will color the photograph naturally, highlight the models and reduce hard-working effort in post-process stage. We chose the trunk due the high contrast compared to the verdant vegetation behind, so people will be easier to recognize the subject.
Then, the color of the costume should be (again) make some contrast. Black and white is never old-fashioned but if you’d go for some vibrant color choices, stay contrasted (red-green, yellow-violet, orange-blue,…) and no one could ignore you.
Also, stock some poses to use at once instead of waiting for posing advices from the photographers (sometimes, our friends or companions, who are not talented at composition and photography in general).
The grass
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The brownish grass field is good case for playing color contrastly, The black fits perfectly for most case while the reddish orange scarf is a good partner featuring the model and also, contributing to the contrast range including green grass background.
There is a trick to wear sunglasses due to the fact that your eyes look slightly closed to prevent the sunshine. So even the model face the sky, she boasted very air of confidence.
The hill
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Another reason why you should bring along a scarf (I suggest 2 contrast colors, blue on for warm-colored background and red/ orange for cool-colored landscape) is to visualize the wind. Yes, we can not see the wind, but with a scarf, wind become our ally: He bring us a sense of freedom in the photograph, which is all travelers look for.
With scarf, we have more options for posing ideas.
The view by the hill
Last but not least, don’t forget to take some unmanned photos. Sometimes we just love to enjoy a clear vista while sipping a cup of tea recollecting a time when we are young and wild.
Mondulkiri Photography tips: The pine hill It is admittedly that people have to pay a chunk of money to travel to a incredible destination, why don't they have a stunning album to show off to boast our journeys? Photography is one of the reasons why people love travel. It is admittedly that people have to pay a chunk of money to travel to a incredible destination, why don't they have a stunning album to show off to boast our journeys?
Best Hua Hin Itinerary For 4-Day Trip
Best Hua Hin Itinerary For 4-Day Trip It’s quite difficult to discover it all but Hua Hin is a really great destination for any traveler. Here below are best Hua Hin itinerary recommended for your information.
Are you looking to visiting Hua Hin in your 4-day trip? It’s quite difficult to discover it all but Hua Hin is a really great destination for any traveler. Here below are best Hua Hin itinerary recommended for your information.
Hua Hin is a famous tourism spot in Thailand. It’s not so large but owns a lot of landscapes, historical places, sea activities, food, traditions… that it must take very…
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Nature Lodge, a splendid hideaway spreads over 7 hectares of verdant countryside of Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, offers the best leisure time for your weekend retreat. Let’s take a look!
Established in 2007 by a lovely couple, the accommodation is a set of eco-friendly bungalows where you may find interesting and relent, aim at nature-loving travelers looking to break away from the hustle and bustle of city life (for a while). It is also an effort to maintain “environmental friendliness, fair employment and ethical practice”, provide “ethical employment, language and vocational tourism training to locals in Sen Monorom”.
Bungalows
If you’ve been to the Central Highland of Vietnam, you may find it similar but I bet it just bears resemblance to the exterior features, not interior designs. That’s the case here:
The rustic cabins are made of reclaimed wood details, from walls to roof, staircase to log table by the balcony, gentle breezes blowing softly on a hammock where guests may love to take a glance at horses below greeting with echoed whinnies through the trees.
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Step inside and don’t let the furnishing amaze you as it did to me. So gorgeous vintage findings, including a fabulous cushioned-wooden bed accompanied by a white mosquito curtains above.
The bathroom is super cool that you would love it for the first time seeing. Good furnishings with tasteful decoration makes it an unforgettable moment during your staying there. The water is heated by bio-gas so it takes a little time to be ready.
With plenty of space between cottages, you may get lost for the first time trying to navigate. Admittedly, so did I, especially at night where the light is scarce (true, we used our headlight or smartphone to light up the environment all the time, it is quite interesting). No worries, you would get used to it quickly on day.
Tree top café
Another amazing corner when you stay at Nature Lodge. There’s great charm in many of the lodge’s well-thought out details, particularly the bar, as well as the tree top balcony. Chilling out with friends by the pools is the best to kill time. I even borrowed a guitar and we had a wonderful acoustic night. So great!
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I’ve never been to any places like this before, truly live among nature, all wooden parts, the small statue with mysterious smile, cushion lounges, tables and chairs on the high decks overlooking the surrounding canopy of forest and garden views.
The Nature Lodge tree tops café & kitchen opens daily from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM, serving a variety of Western, classic Khmer and Thai cuisine. The lounge offers free wifi 24/7 so it’s perfect if your would like to reconnect to the world while looking for relaxation, meals or refreshments.
Facilities
Guests tend to come for a couple of days to relax over leisurely dining or merely short-term stop on their around-the-world trip. Become a big fan of the lodge or you will be tired out by running around the expansive property for photography or pleasedly strolling for a summer sunset or a fresh dawn. Such a chilled-out vibe.
Also, the bar is perfect for leisurely relaxation. You can play billiards, guitar with friends or sipping a drink for a peaceful morning, or just swinging on a hammock while recollecting beautiful wanderlust memories. It is all wooden, with vintage-styled orange lighting, impressively cute and very unique.
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Although the lodge is officially open, it’s not 100 percent: there’s still quite a lot under construction, like new bungalows. In other words, there’s still a presence of equipment and noise that’s definitely annoying.
Afterall, it is beautifully preserved natural landscape, amongst thousands of native trees and many fruit trees (avocados, then you see!) that have been planted for years in order to restore deforested areas. Such an immersive green world!
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The premises also provides large grass areas and communal fire places, an open space for group activities. We did campfire there with grilled shrimps, seasoned meat and beer, making so loud that the host gently reminded us to keep quiet (Oh, I was so sorry but, it was so exciting for any first-time experience).
Service
Travelers could find the staff is so friendly that it’s hard to be grumpy. Any of the attendants would be happy to offer you a stroll back to the bungalow after dinner, in case you get lost.
You may note that the room service attendants are not English-proficient so you are advised to contact the bartender for specific help.
Hardly find a flock of travelers, no, particularly on weekends, means, you will get peaceful corner for yourself, if that’s what you’re after.
Conclusion
I love the lodge for the very first time staying. Its nature beats me up with love that we had a wonderful night camping, singing and playing billiards together and Nature Lodge is a gem that you’d love to explore when in Mondulkiri.
Verdant retreat Nature Lodge, a splendid hideaway spreads over 7 hectares of verdant countryside of Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, offers the best leisure time for your weekend retreat.
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Most of the journey’s costs come from traveling fees, especially if you’re moving from place to place by plane.
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Here are some tips on how to find cheap flights without much efforts.
1. Using best airfare search engine
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