The writer at Halong Bay in Vietnam in January 2020.
IT IS time for me to pack my travel bag again as my last overseas vacation was more than two years ago.
My last trip was to Hanoi and Halong Bay in Vietnam in January 2020, before our borders were closed on March 18 the same year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country.
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