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Overview

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Itinerary

Saturday 8/23 Flight leaving from O'hare. We’ll bring coffee, you bring the fun.
Sunday 8/24 Hit Hong Kong, break out your dancing shoes. Crash at the Empire Hotel
Monday 8/25 Explore Saigon and Free time. Dinner and a nightclub. Perhaps some Karaoke. Accommodations will be at the Hotel Equatorial Ho Chi Minh City
Tuesday 8/26 Fly to Cambodia, relax by the pool. (Look for Angelina Jolie shooting Tomb Raider V). We will be kicking back at The Angkor Century Hotel
Wednesday 8/27 Explore incredible temples at Angkor Wat. Sunset dinner and drinks
Thursday 8/28 More Temples and free time (there's a lot to see!!). Fly back to Saigon, party hard
Friday 8/29 Bicycle tour of Saigon, Boat Trip to the Mekong Delta
Saturday 8/30 Cu-Chi Tunnels (get ready to shoot AK-47’s and bazookas). Enjoy the last night in Saigon with an all nighter.
Sunday 8/31 Fly Home. Relax and tell stories of how cool your trip leaders are!

Why This Trip

This trip, which was rated the #1 Random Walk in 2007, is for you if:

  • You want to party like a rockstar and stay in four and five star hotels (aka go on a trip of a lifetime)
  • You want to visit three countries (Vietnam, Cambodia and Hong Kong) in one trip with ridiculously fun people!
  • You love amazing food and shopping
  • You want a good mix of culture and fun
  • You already know some Vietnamese: "Bạn \ Lanh lợi, Như thế nào Về một bia?" We’ll tell you what it means on the trip

This trip is not for you if:

  • You don't like fun
  • Not adventurous
  • You are unable to go out all-night , sleep 2 hours and then walk around a foreign country

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Trip Leaders

Clair RauhClaire "RAW" Rauh

  • E-mail: crauh AT ChicagoGSB.edu
  • Hometown: Greenwich "I tell people I grew up just outside NY", CT
  • Undergrad College: DOOK
  • Undergrad Major: Lax is life
  • Work Experience: Rolling dough and carrying knives in the south of France
  • Chicago Booth Concentrations: Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurial Studies
  • Hobbies: Planning Spring Break
  • Fun Fact: I use my feminine wiles to defend my cups in beer pong
  • Goal for RW Vietnam: Eat the beating heart of a king cobra

Persis ElaviaPersis "Spunky" Elavia

  • E-mail: pelavia AT ChicagoGSB.edu
  • Hometown: Purchase, NY (land of golf courses and Pepsi)
  • Undergrad College: U of C, don’t judge me
  • Undergrad Major: International Party Planning/Politics, Strategic Dating
  • Work Experience: Exploring coal mines, making CEOs cry
  • Chicago Booth Concentrations: TNDC, Winter Garden gossipping, Selling Stuff
  • Hobbies: Cooking new and crazy food, twisting my body into strange positions
  • Fun Fact: On my Random Walk last year, I was the 11th woman in fifteen years to scale a 30 foot cliff with no gear and then jump into raging rapids!
  • Goal for RW Vietnam: Run and survive a power hour... because at Chicago Booth, we are taught to Lead

Sean LoboSean "Slobodan Milosevic" Lobo

  • E-mail: sean.lobo AT ChicagoGSB.edu
  • Hometown: The Chi
  • Undergrad College: BC Baby!
  • Undergrad Major: Chaos Theory
  • Work Experience: Making dollars for Dutch people
  • Chicago Booth Concentrations: Analytic Finance, Accounting & Strategic Management
  • Hobbies: Doing tequila shots of the worst tequila I can find
  • Fun Fact: I like Orange gummy bears
  • Goals for RW Vietnam: Fall in love, get married, get divorced and have a child.. in a week... You want to explore life and not just go on another boring beach holiday.

Umar HaiderUmar "Playa" Haider

  • E-mail: shaider AT ChicagoGSB.edu
  • Hometown: BRONXville ( That's right I'm from the mean streets), NY
  • Undergrad College: Davidson, land of the popped collar
  • Undergrad Major: World Domination
  • Work Experience: Bringing tasty goodness to the world
  • Chicago Booth Concentrations: Strategic Management, Marketing
  • Hobbies: Anything involving the words BYOB, Inappropriate Humor, Being "randomly selected" by airport security
  • Fun Fact: I've shared a beer with Mr. Met
  • Goal for RW Vietnam: Drink snake blood
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