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Backpacking Days: Halong Bay, Vietnam
October 2009 I should say that the highlight of this getaway was spending the night in Halong Bay. Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi were also exciting, but it was my first time to sleep on a boat, and not a moving one this time. I slept on moving ferries during overnight trips in the Philippines. We rode a van from Hanoi […]
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Backpacking Days: Hanoi, Vietnam Part 2
October 2009 I wrote an entry on my foodie blog before about eating in Hanoi. I would love to eat authentic Vietnamese food again. After our stint in the Museum of Ethnology, we went to the Temple of Literature. I took several pictures inside but most of them were lost. This temple of Confucius was the […]
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Backpacking Days: Hanoi, Vietnam Part 1
October 2009 Outside Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh, I saw a statue located in the roundabout and took a picture. I found out later it was that of a Vietnamese hero, Tran Nguyen Hai. We could have visited other places in the city, but we needed to catch a flight to Hanoi that day. The […]
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Backpacking Days: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
October 2009 I lost most of the pictures taken during this trip after my old laptop was reformatted. Good thing I was able to save some pictures. This getaway was part of a backpacking trip with friends for almost two weeks. We packed only the essentials to avoid checking in baggage. From Phnom Penh, we rode a […]
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Budget Travel Tips: Bangkok, Thailand
Is it possible to stay in Bangkok for a month without breaking the bank? The answer is yes! In early 2007, I was surfing online and found ECC Language Institute’s Introduction to TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) course in Bangkok. It sounded interesting. I tried to answer some questions and applied. Later […]
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Visa FAQs
Filipinos travel overseas for different reasons. Others work or study while others do business or go abroad for tourism purposes. Overseas Filipino workers have to obtain valid visas to secure work permits. Meanwhile, those who want to study abroad must have student visas. Visa applications require money and time. Others who just love to visit […]
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About Getawaysnaps
Hello! Getawaysnaps is a travel diary with pictures taken by me starting in 2007. The first few posts talk about my time in Vietnam with three other ladies. It was part of our Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam backpacking getaway in 2009. I used to travel on my own. I did travel with my parents, younger brother, and friends […]