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South East Asia Travels '12
Interesting facts about Vietnam:
1. No money, no honey.
2. No motorbike, no girlfriend
3. Small motorbike, small girlfriend. Big motorbike, big girlfriend.
4. Ho Chi Minh no family, cos Ho Chi Minh no girlfriend cos Ho Chi minh no motorbike.
Today we took a trip to Mekong Delta. Jumped on the bus, the tour guide was as funny as, his name was An, me and Jessie were the only ones laughing as per. He had loads of hilarious one liners, what a joker. Learnt about Ho Chi Minh and how he was a national hero and with the help of the Viet Cong defeated the Americans who killed many innocent civilians, in their attempt to stop Vietnam becoming communist. The city which used to be called Saigon, but it was then renamed in 1976 to Ho Chi Minh City to honour the man himself.
After an intro to Vietnamese history, we jumped onto boat which took us onto the Mekong. He told us that there are four islands on the Mekong delta. The first island we stopped at was called Unicorn Island. We had some locals performing live Vietnamese music which was nice, the women sing so high though and kind of sound like kids, later I even mistook a women singing group for a school singing group. We ate fruit and drank green tea. Then moved on to look at the Honey friend bees, they were very tame and the lady was just pulling out the sections of the hive with her bare hands. I even stuck my finger in the hive and ate some of the honey, as fresh as Andre 3000. Then had some honey snacks and honey tea yum, so good the bees wanted it back. I bought some honey and honey peanut snacks. Moved along and saw a massive planet sized fruit dangling from a tree. Literally was bigger than a foot cubed! And the branch it hung off was like the size of my wrist. Then we had a canoe ride down jungle stream which was super relaxing.
Next up, the next island was called Coconut kingdom - they made coconut candy, coconut soap and rice paper treats, all by hand. The coconut was heated by burning the coconut shells, there was some pretty old school stuff going on there. I bought some more island treats, this time coconut peanut candy. Ben made rice paper and didn't do a bad job at all.
Then An pulled out a 15kg Python, Nicola ran away and I dived in first to have a handle. It was so heavy! Me and Jessie even had to hold him together. It was a pretty wretched cage for the poor guy; animal cruelty is a very common trend in South East Asia.
Also we saw crocodiles in a pen and I saw two of the alpha males battling, but one caved and swam away. There were also some dickheads teasing them with bait and laughing away, I felt like throwing them in to the pit.
We had Lunch, and me and Isaac almost tried croc but it was pretty expensive so we gave it a miss. Then back on the boat and back home.
Bought some vod, had some cake and a couple pre drinks for Nic's bday. Moved onto cocktails at various bars, there was one weird Vietnamese man who kept dancing behind bens bum and touching my ears to talk to me and was surprised when I said I wasn't Vietnamese. One bar I paid £3 for 300mils of water!! Extortionate prices! Another bar was ridiculously expensive and had a bottle of wine for £300! We then realised we were on the expensive side of town. Me and Isaac sacked it off and went home.
1. No money, no honey.
2. No motorbike, no girlfriend
3. Small motorbike, small girlfriend. Big motorbike, big girlfriend.
4. Ho Chi Minh no family, cos Ho Chi Minh no girlfriend cos Ho Chi minh no motorbike.
Today we took a trip to Mekong Delta. Jumped on the bus, the tour guide was as funny as, his name was An, me and Jessie were the only ones laughing as per. He had loads of hilarious one liners, what a joker. Learnt about Ho Chi Minh and how he was a national hero and with the help of the Viet Cong defeated the Americans who killed many innocent civilians, in their attempt to stop Vietnam becoming communist. The city which used to be called Saigon, but it was then renamed in 1976 to Ho Chi Minh City to honour the man himself.
After an intro to Vietnamese history, we jumped onto boat which took us onto the Mekong. He told us that there are four islands on the Mekong delta. The first island we stopped at was called Unicorn Island. We had some locals performing live Vietnamese music which was nice, the women sing so high though and kind of sound like kids, later I even mistook a women singing group for a school singing group. We ate fruit and drank green tea. Then moved on to look at the Honey friend bees, they were very tame and the lady was just pulling out the sections of the hive with her bare hands. I even stuck my finger in the hive and ate some of the honey, as fresh as Andre 3000. Then had some honey snacks and honey tea yum, so good the bees wanted it back. I bought some honey and honey peanut snacks. Moved along and saw a massive planet sized fruit dangling from a tree. Literally was bigger than a foot cubed! And the branch it hung off was like the size of my wrist. Then we had a canoe ride down jungle stream which was super relaxing.
Next up, the next island was called Coconut kingdom - they made coconut candy, coconut soap and rice paper treats, all by hand. The coconut was heated by burning the coconut shells, there was some pretty old school stuff going on there. I bought some more island treats, this time coconut peanut candy. Ben made rice paper and didn't do a bad job at all.
Then An pulled out a 15kg Python, Nicola ran away and I dived in first to have a handle. It was so heavy! Me and Jessie even had to hold him together. It was a pretty wretched cage for the poor guy; animal cruelty is a very common trend in South East Asia.
Also we saw crocodiles in a pen and I saw two of the alpha males battling, but one caved and swam away. There were also some dickheads teasing them with bait and laughing away, I felt like throwing them in to the pit.
We had Lunch, and me and Isaac almost tried croc but it was pretty expensive so we gave it a miss. Then back on the boat and back home.
Bought some vod, had some cake and a couple pre drinks for Nic's bday. Moved onto cocktails at various bars, there was one weird Vietnamese man who kept dancing behind bens bum and touching my ears to talk to me and was surprised when I said I wasn't Vietnamese. One bar I paid £3 for 300mils of water!! Extortionate prices! Another bar was ridiculously expensive and had a bottle of wine for £300! We then realised we were on the expensive side of town. Me and Isaac sacked it off and went home.
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