Belated Vietnam pictures...sorry!
Just realised that, despite being back over a week I'm yet to put any photos of our amazing time in Vietnam up here! Blame my Father as since I've been back its been a non-stop tourist trail of HK but I think I've worn them out as they're leaving today! I'm also back at school with only 6 weeks until I finish for good - scary stuff!
Anyway here are some pics of Vietnam, after the whole delayed plane fiasco we arrived at our hotel at 7am so, having been up for over 24 hours we caught a few hours kip and then set out to explore Ho Chi Minh city in the boiling heat -
The view from our hotel window (very odd to be able to see for miles when you're used to Hong Kong...)
Mopeds! If I tell you there are the most mopeds you have ever seen in your life in HCM and then you multiply the number you're imagining by 100 you'll be close to picturing how many mopeds there actually were. During our stay we saw everything you can imagine on the back of a moped - washing machine, family of four, cats, dogs, kitchen sinks...
The next day we took a tour around the Mekong Delta (L-R Neela, Me, Hannah, Rav), we stopped at loads of interesting places including a 'factory' that makes rice sweets and an exotic fruit farm...
(insert your own gag here)
The next day we took another tour to the Chu Chi tunnels that were used during the Vietnam war - this one has been made about three times its original size for tourists to crawel through.
I also went down one of the escape tunnels they used...going,
going...
GONE! This, along with the War Remnants museum was fascinating but also a creepy mixture of happy tourism and horrific historical fact...the whole experience was bizarre but I'm very glad we did it.
After the tunnels we visited an amazing temple that follows a 'universal' religion that is a mixtire of Christianity, Judaism, Taoism and Confustionism. We got to watch the monks at mass (and before you ask, we weren't being obnoxious tourists - we were allowed to take photos!) On the same day we also visted a lacquer factory, rubber plantation and saw some water buffalo. Then at 4am that night it was time to head back to HK! The whole trip was hectic madness (both tours were 10 hours long and started at 7am!) and not at all relaxing but it was amazing! I definitely want to go back to Vietnam!
Anyway better get back to work...
R x
Anyway here are some pics of Vietnam, after the whole delayed plane fiasco we arrived at our hotel at 7am so, having been up for over 24 hours we caught a few hours kip and then set out to explore Ho Chi Minh city in the boiling heat -
The view from our hotel window (very odd to be able to see for miles when you're used to Hong Kong...)
Mopeds! If I tell you there are the most mopeds you have ever seen in your life in HCM and then you multiply the number you're imagining by 100 you'll be close to picturing how many mopeds there actually were. During our stay we saw everything you can imagine on the back of a moped - washing machine, family of four, cats, dogs, kitchen sinks...
The next day we took a tour around the Mekong Delta (L-R Neela, Me, Hannah, Rav), we stopped at loads of interesting places including a 'factory' that makes rice sweets and an exotic fruit farm...
(insert your own gag here)
The next day we took another tour to the Chu Chi tunnels that were used during the Vietnam war - this one has been made about three times its original size for tourists to crawel through.
I also went down one of the escape tunnels they used...going,
going...
GONE! This, along with the War Remnants museum was fascinating but also a creepy mixture of happy tourism and horrific historical fact...the whole experience was bizarre but I'm very glad we did it.
After the tunnels we visited an amazing temple that follows a 'universal' religion that is a mixtire of Christianity, Judaism, Taoism and Confustionism. We got to watch the monks at mass (and before you ask, we weren't being obnoxious tourists - we were allowed to take photos!) On the same day we also visted a lacquer factory, rubber plantation and saw some water buffalo. Then at 4am that night it was time to head back to HK! The whole trip was hectic madness (both tours were 10 hours long and started at 7am!) and not at all relaxing but it was amazing! I definitely want to go back to Vietnam!
Anyway better get back to work...
R x
posted by robynandben at 9:16 AM
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Hi guys, I left your Dad's book in your flat last night - Rob, could you bring it along to supper tonight for me?
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