I will write something when I find a faster and better connection!
Mama, he encontrado al senyor Bach!!! Estoy en Ho Chi Minh y manyana voy a cenar con el y su familia! ya te contare, que senyor mas tranquilo, no habla nada, jeje
Bueno, fins un altre
The MEkong Delta adventures will be followed...
Ok, today it's the 15th of December and I am in Da Lat. I have found a good internet cafe so I will try to tell you a bit about my trip in South Vietnam. In any case it won't be everything, every single day in this country has been a full on adventure!
So, I was in Rach Gia and I wanted to go to Phu Quoc Island, but I couldn't go... because nobody could understand me! a moto driver took me to the ticket office and the lady said to me the boat was full. I tried to ask if there was only one boat a day, or if there were other companies going there but she didn't speak any English and neither did the moto driver. I got a bit frustated so I said ok, just take me to the bus station. I'll go with Plan B. So I took a bus to Can Tho. Can Tho is a huge (well, compared to Cambodian standards) harbour city. My first surprise was in the restaurant of the hotel I was staying: fish tanks filled with snakes, and they were not for decoration! ooooops. Can Tho is such a busy city, lots of motorbikes and cars, and lots of places to have coffee ("ca phe") on the riverside. The day after I arrived I took a boat at 5 am that went along the Mekong river and its many canals. I saw a couple of floating markets, where the locals sell the groceries from boat to boat. Along the river there were many houses, well, not so many proper houses but more like huts and I felt so sorry for the people living there because it was so damp and humid. The boat kept getting stuck because of plastics and plants getting caught in the motor, so the trip lasted for 8 hours and I had enough of sightseeing! It was very hot!
Then I decided to leave Can Tho for a quieter place, the island of An Binh. I took a moto driver (he was going so fast I was a bit scared!), and guess what, for the second time he dumped me again before we arrived to the destination. He left me in Vinh Long (a very beautiful town). From there I was on my own, I took a ferry to An Binh island and I started walking. The vegetation was very lush with many orchards: pineapple trees, banana trees, papaya trees, I was following a little road and every so often I had to cross little bridges. It was so pretty, but after walking for an hour I still didn't know where I was heading to and it would be dark soon. So when I saw a western looking guy driving a motorbike I stopped him. He was very kind and he took me to his guesthouse. It was very exotic, a Vietnamese family house that rented rooms and they cooked a spectacular dinner and also breakfast, they were so kind. At night I slept in the room with a mosquito net and I could hear all the animals for the walls of the rooms didn't get to the ceiling, it felt like being in the middle of the jungle!
The day after I took again the ferry and another moto driver to Sa Dec, another Mekong Delta town. Well, I think Sa Dec was definetely my favorite place in the Mekong Delta. I don't know why but I instantly felt so happy to be there. There were no tourists around either and I ended up in a hotel from the 50's that hadn't had any refurbishment done since the 50's! Sooooo run down but soooo cool! In Sa Dec there are many many ancient French colonial houses and it was the town where Marguerite Duras grew up and you still can see her old school. It was a very charming town with a nice market, obviously the main product sold there was rice! So many different kinds of rice, and vegetables and fish... I met a Vietnamese lady who was an English teacher and she took me to her house and introduced me to the neighbours and family and had dinner with them and also breakfast because she came to pick me up to the hotel to take me to the bus station. Vietnamese people are really generous. She told me she was quite poor and many of her students couldn't pay for their lessons but she insisted all the time on paying: for dinner, for coffee,... so very kind.
But my visa for Vietnam is only for a month so I had to leave Sa Dec. My next trip would be to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
Mama, he encontrado al senyor Bach!!! Estoy en Ho Chi Minh y manyana voy a cenar con el y su familia! ya te contare, que senyor mas tranquilo, no habla nada, jeje
Bueno, fins un altre
The MEkong Delta adventures will be followed...
Ok, today it's the 15th of December and I am in Da Lat. I have found a good internet cafe so I will try to tell you a bit about my trip in South Vietnam. In any case it won't be everything, every single day in this country has been a full on adventure!
So, I was in Rach Gia and I wanted to go to Phu Quoc Island, but I couldn't go... because nobody could understand me! a moto driver took me to the ticket office and the lady said to me the boat was full. I tried to ask if there was only one boat a day, or if there were other companies going there but she didn't speak any English and neither did the moto driver. I got a bit frustated so I said ok, just take me to the bus station. I'll go with Plan B. So I took a bus to Can Tho. Can Tho is a huge (well, compared to Cambodian standards) harbour city. My first surprise was in the restaurant of the hotel I was staying: fish tanks filled with snakes, and they were not for decoration! ooooops. Can Tho is such a busy city, lots of motorbikes and cars, and lots of places to have coffee ("ca phe") on the riverside. The day after I arrived I took a boat at 5 am that went along the Mekong river and its many canals. I saw a couple of floating markets, where the locals sell the groceries from boat to boat. Along the river there were many houses, well, not so many proper houses but more like huts and I felt so sorry for the people living there because it was so damp and humid. The boat kept getting stuck because of plastics and plants getting caught in the motor, so the trip lasted for 8 hours and I had enough of sightseeing! It was very hot!
Then I decided to leave Can Tho for a quieter place, the island of An Binh. I took a moto driver (he was going so fast I was a bit scared!), and guess what, for the second time he dumped me again before we arrived to the destination. He left me in Vinh Long (a very beautiful town). From there I was on my own, I took a ferry to An Binh island and I started walking. The vegetation was very lush with many orchards: pineapple trees, banana trees, papaya trees, I was following a little road and every so often I had to cross little bridges. It was so pretty, but after walking for an hour I still didn't know where I was heading to and it would be dark soon. So when I saw a western looking guy driving a motorbike I stopped him. He was very kind and he took me to his guesthouse. It was very exotic, a Vietnamese family house that rented rooms and they cooked a spectacular dinner and also breakfast, they were so kind. At night I slept in the room with a mosquito net and I could hear all the animals for the walls of the rooms didn't get to the ceiling, it felt like being in the middle of the jungle!
The day after I took again the ferry and another moto driver to Sa Dec, another Mekong Delta town. Well, I think Sa Dec was definetely my favorite place in the Mekong Delta. I don't know why but I instantly felt so happy to be there. There were no tourists around either and I ended up in a hotel from the 50's that hadn't had any refurbishment done since the 50's! Sooooo run down but soooo cool! In Sa Dec there are many many ancient French colonial houses and it was the town where Marguerite Duras grew up and you still can see her old school. It was a very charming town with a nice market, obviously the main product sold there was rice! So many different kinds of rice, and vegetables and fish... I met a Vietnamese lady who was an English teacher and she took me to her house and introduced me to the neighbours and family and had dinner with them and also breakfast because she came to pick me up to the hotel to take me to the bus station. Vietnamese people are really generous. She told me she was quite poor and many of her students couldn't pay for their lessons but she insisted all the time on paying: for dinner, for coffee,... so very kind.
But my visa for Vietnam is only for a month so I had to leave Sa Dec. My next trip would be to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
3 comentarios:
Hola Claudia, ya tengo el paquete de la India. Cuando e ido a buscarlo a Correos enseguida lo he visto encima de un archivador y he dicho "me parece que vengo a buscar aquel paquete", y era "aquel" paquete efectivamente el tuyo. Muy original el envoltorio y el cosido no lo supera ni el mejor sastre, se nota que quien lo hizo tiene mucho oficio.
El contenido es de 3 camisetas de adultos , 2 para Abril, 2 bolsas de té muy originales, unos retazos de telas ¿? 1 librito de oraciones y mantras 1 librito de postales de Benarés, 1 diario, varias facturas y publicidad y tarjetas de hoteles y 2 planos. Dime para quien son las camisetas de adultos. ¿Te guardo la negra para tí? Todo lo que no son camisetas y té, lo he puesto dentro de la misma bolsa de embalage y te lo he guardado en tu armario.
Las camisetas de Abril son muy bonitas y ya tengo ganas de vérselas puestas.
Muchas gracias por todo y hasta pronto. Te quiere tu madre.
hola primi, me algro de q lo pases tan bien, estoy verde de envidia,y + cuando lei que estuviste en JAPON es uno de mis viajes .
Próximo destino australia?ya me diras.Estuvo aqui Dani con Silvia y Abril 3 dias, ahora esta tu padre aqui 1 semana.
Besos
Tequiere Alexia
Hola Cla, retiro todo lo dicho y pensado del pueblo vietnamita. Es verdad que no te puedes fiar mucho de lo que digan otras personas. A la gente hay que conocerla "in situ". Estoy muy contenta de que te lo pases tan bien y sobre todo de que encuentres gente tan buena y generosa. Ya tengo ganas de saber algo más de la fimilia Bach. Recibe muchos besos de tu madre.
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