{"id":49,"date":"2017-09-24T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bltierney.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/24\/on-to-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2018-04-14T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T02:35:00","slug":"on-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/24\/on-to-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiso Valley, Kansai, and on to Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve left Japan and moved on Vietnam. I\u2019m finding it hard to update this blog, as we\u2019ve been doing a lot everyday. Find me on Facebook if you want more regular updates. But I\u2019m hoping to have more free time starting with our next stop: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%C3%A1t_B%C3%A0_Island\">Cat Ba Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Tokyo, we went to Kiso Valley (highly recommended!), Kyoto, Amanohashidate, and the Osaka area, including Nara, Himeji, and Kobe.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the links below for a selection of photos from each.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/b4EFC6XfPE1VR2KE3\">Kiso Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/lKZMInF2ejt9f4AJ3\">Amanohashidate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/5qjCfw2OdtJmC7Ko1\">Kyoto<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/BXnoKx8uaYlM4Cwx2\">Nara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/BsgCP4TtTfQbG1V92\">Himeji and Kobe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/GtY4XrNeWMmW5zdA3\">Osaka<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hanoi is a very intense city, but feels very safe. And its really affordable! Sample costs: Hotel: $25\/night. Taxi for 2-3 km: $2. Beer: $1. Good coffee: 40c. Cheap meal: $2. Nice meal: $10. Air pollution is horrible tho. Be sure to get a mask.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46\" src=\"https:\/\/bltierney.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/img_20170922_210508.jpg\" width=\"3391\" height=\"1604\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve left Japan and moved on Vietnam. I\u2019m finding it hard to update this blog, as we\u2019ve been doing a lot everyday. Find me on Facebook if you want more regular updates. But I\u2019m hoping to have more free time starting with our next stop: Cat Ba Island. After Tokyo, we went to Kiso ValleyContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-asia","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}