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LONG TAN TREK
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The 2014 Long Tan Trek Tour and the 2014
Decisive Battlefields of Vietnam (DBV) Tour are now finalised. Please see
below for a downloadable FLYER and ITINERARY for both Tours.
The dates are now confirmed:
depart Australia Saturday 11 Oct 2014;
depart VN Sat 18 Oct from the LTT Tour (arrive Aust
19 am);
depart VN Wed 29 Oct from the DBV Tour (arrive Aust
30 Oct am).
(This avoids School holidays, Grand Finals etc!)
We have retained very much the same formula as it has
drawn so much good comment, and much the same visits and timings but with
the significant differences noted below...
For the Long Tan Trek (LTT) 2014
Having listened to those who did the first week only in
2010 and either wanted to see the VC tunnels or wanted some extra time in HCMC (Saigon),
we added a day after returning from Vung Tau to do either Cu Chi or see more
of Saigon. This worked well for the 2011 Tour, so we are retaining this in
2014. At Cu Chi,
you can fire some weapons - AK47,
Armalite, M60, etc if you want to (at about US$2 a round but rising every
visit!).
If not Cu Chi, then see more of Saigon, or just hang out
on one of the roof bistros or bars and watch the road and river traffic go
by, or go shopping, or have a swim in the pool. A great time to relax and unwind, 'coz
the tour's pretty hectic...
And again, in response to comments from the 2012 Tour, and by popular request, we'll
have a free day in Vung Tau on Thursday 16 Oct. This will allow
the Tour folks a day to "do their own thing", whether that be to return to
Nui Dat to seek their old unit lines, or go to old areas of operation (if
those areas are open for travel), see things not already on the itinerary,
or just take some R&C in the town. Maybe catch up with some of the
ex-pats?
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Download the 2014 flyer
(1 A4 page).
For the Decisive Battlefields of Vietnam (DBV)
Tour 2014
We've listened again - we went to Da Nang in 2010 but didn't
go the extra 30 Km to Hoi An. While not a battlefield, Hoi An is such
an attraction that we spent two nights and a day there on the 2011 and 2012 Tours.
That's retained in the 2014 plans.
A sort of R&R before launching into the DBV Tour.....
The rest of the DBV Tour very much
follows the well-received format of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Tours. And, yes, we've
retained the R&R at Ha Long Bay - again, not a battlefield, but certainly a
welcome recuperation after an intensive week of viewing Hue, the DMZ and
points North. Besides this, and again by popular request, we've added
a free day in Hanoi...
The full itinerary is in two parts - the SOUTH only and the
NORTH only:
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...the 2014 SOUTH itinerary in PDF format
(WARNING - Lots of pix so it's 1.2 Megs!)
(8 A4
pages, as at 11 Nov 2013).
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...the 2014 NORTH itinerary in PDF format
(WARNING - Lots of pix so it's 1.5 Megs!)
(10 A4
pages, as at 11 Nov 2013).
If you read the Flyer or the Itinerary and
want a great preview, then please view the Report of the 2010 Tour at:
VN Long Tan Trek Tour 2010.html
or the Report of the 2011 Tour at:
VN Long Tan Trek Report 2011.html
or the Report of the 2012 Tour at:
VN
Long Tan Trek Report 2012.html
or the Report of the 2013 Tour at:
VN
Long Tan Trek Report 2012.html
The Reports are statements of what the Tours did, supported
by photographs taken and contributed by those on the Tours. Read what
the folks on the Tours thought and said about it. And then at the end there's a
few "out-take" pictures you might find amusing - they did.
So - please read and consider joining us and visiting not
only Long Tan but many other battle-sites you know about and have only ever
dreamt of visiting - Dien Bien Phu, Khe Sanh, Hue...
And as you will see from the Tour comments - there's lots
to keep the ladies interested - as well as Saigon and Hanoi, there's Ha Long
Bay and Hoi An and now a free day in Hanoi. And I might add that they all wanted to see the
battlefields as much as the men did.
So - please pass the flyer on, pin it up at the office or
in the club, add it into your newsletter, bring a mate, form a group, if
there's enough of you interested, we'll make a group only for you for a date
you all agree on - just use the "Contact
Dave" web page.
Thanks for your interest in visiting this page. We'd
be only too happy to go with you to visit the Decisive Battlefields of the
Three Indo-China Wars.
Cheers,
Dave and Di Sabben.
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ps - If you've done Viet Nam and are interested in a
Tour of the key Decisive Battlefields in Europe of WW1 (Western Front) and WW2
(Normandy), AND want to spend time in London and Paris, AND want to
spend ANZAC Day 2014 at Villers Brettonneux - then maybe you'd like to read
our Flyer at:
Europe Battlefield Tours.html
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