The Statues of Pleiku
Pleiku is different from many other places in Vietnam. While it is definitely a Vietnamese city, it is also a frontier town. It sits in the Central Highlands, a region of non-Vietnamese ethnic groups...
View ArticleThe Gialai Provincial Museum
Sometimes you go to a museum to check out what’s in a museum, sometimes you go to check out the museum itself. My trip to the Pleiku’s Gialai Provincial museum was of the latter sort. The...
View ArticleIt’s 2:30am in Pleiku! Night Market Time!
The math was wrong. I had been offered a 1pm bus from Hue to Pleiku, but as I thought I was looking at a 12-14 hour trip, arriving at 1-3am didn’t make sense. Pleiku was not known for its nightlife. Or...
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