Halong Bay, Hanoi, Vietnam
Photograph by: istock, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Photograph by: istock, Getty Images/iStockphoto
By LIISA ATVA,
Postmedia News
February 13, 2012
“Please feed our fish your dead skin” read the sign over a large fish tank in the night market of Siem Reap, Cambodia. The perfect solution for sore feet after a day exploring the nearby Angkor ruins – foot spas where fish nibble away your calluses, leaving your feet silky smooth. Sitting around the tank soaking their feet, happily chatting, beers in hand, were three twenty-something young women, all with sun-bleached hair in beaded or dreadlocked strands. Cheery Australian accents intermingled with a Swedish “yah, yah.” Backpackers, we presumed. We were two ladies, old enough to leave backpacking to our kids, adventurous enough to pass on a group tour, but not carefree enough to try the foot spa.
Using travel guide books, and sample itineraries from the tours we didn’t book, we planned a 17-day trip through Vietnam and Cambodia. My travel companion’s daughter, Julianne Austman, joined us in Hanoi for a few days at the end of her three-month back-packing trip through Australia and Southeast Asia. Read the rest of the article at The Vancouver Sun.
“Please feed our fish your dead skin” read the sign over a large fish tank in the night market of Siem Reap, Cambodia. The perfect solution for sore feet after a day exploring the nearby Angkor ruins – foot spas where fish nibble away your calluses, leaving your feet silky smooth. Sitting around the tank soaking their feet, happily chatting, beers in hand, were three twenty-something young women, all with sun-bleached hair in beaded or dreadlocked strands. Cheery Australian accents intermingled with a Swedish “yah, yah.” Backpackers, we presumed. We were two ladies, old enough to leave backpacking to our kids, adventurous enough to pass on a group tour, but not carefree enough to try the foot spa.
Using travel guide books, and sample itineraries from the tours we didn’t book, we planned a 17-day trip through Vietnam and Cambodia. My travel companion’s daughter, Julianne Austman, joined us in Hanoi for a few days at the end of her three-month back-packing trip through Australia and Southeast Asia. Read the rest of the article at The Vancouver Sun.
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