Thank you so much for this fabulous report. I live up the road from Naples, and am leaving on Dec 15 for the OAT Vietnam trip. You have just increased my enthusiam enormously!!----even tho I have been to Thailand and Angkor, I will do those add-ons----since my traveling friend has not been there. She and I booked this trip partly because we could get single accomodations with no supplement.Plus, of course, Vietnam was on both of our travel lists....

I felt like I wanted to print out your travelogue---but perhaps my Lonely Planet and Rough Guide travel books will fill the bill. The ink and paper stopped me from printing.

I have several friends who have done the OAT ultimate Africa trip with outstanding reports. I have lived there for 5 yrs, and returned many times independantly....If I were to do a tour, i would go with OAT----or on the Shongololo train...
thank-you again....pat (up the road).....

Bookmark. Great trip!

Bringing this to the top to thank you for your report, Neopatrick. Like you, we have never done a group tour, but friends were taking this exact trip in 2012, and having planned too many trips by myself lately, I thought it might be nice to be dragged around by someone else for a change. I had some misgivings upon signing up, but your report has made me feel confident that it will be a good time! Thanks for your refreshing and entertaining tales.

neo---where are you.. certainly you are still travelling

In Amsterdam right now. Just came from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Suzdal, Kiev, and Barcelona. Sill Brugge, Paris, and London this trip.