Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Viet Nam Hanoi, Halong Bay, 5 day 4 night romantic tour (liushuizhang)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Viet Nam tour---all the sunshine dust (1)
(I) visa and other
The original did not go to Viet Nam.
As has been done this year to a crossing West Cumbria travel. 4 month to Beijing, prepares for a visa to Russia, but the original carriage travel agency now. Embassy of Russia to Visa Unit went quite cumbersome procedures, but also to catch this great holidays to labor. Come back after moving to Viet Nam. Just know that Viet Nam had consulates in gold rush North Road, visas and other travel information are blank. Illa helped me a great favor on in Ctrip ask, give out answers in Guangzhou haizhu square, overseas Chinese mansion. Own Visa Department, do visas were also a lot of the whole lobby sitting full of people. However most Transact Business or to visit visa. Visa is simple, fill in the application form, attach photos, RMB400, day 4. If acceleration, RMB650, day 2 afternoon.The next step is looking for Viet Nam travel information, the entire canton of bookstores, or few on the network.
In Beijing's foreign language Bookstore, I saw a Lonely Planet Vietnam, price RMB 320, scared me jump, thin one, USD17. Then see a Chinese independent tour of Viet Nam, Hong Kong, but RMB HKD56, 102. No way, can only be bought, but later found the book very useful. To Viet Nam, found that in fact there is no need to worry about, in Ho Chi Minh City has a lot of second-hand and pirated Lonely Planet and other travel books. Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City that night I Phan Ngo Lao Street look at a ratio of Oxford Dictionary of South East Asia, reprographic, brand new, the asking price, I had also USD6 USD5, who immediately sent me. I know the price is too high, but not to the Beijing-price 1/10. In fact, I offer 3-4 USD, you can buy.Guangzhou to HO CHI MINH CITY's aircraft is more.
But the price is not low. Because originally not planned, the company is only looking for booking. But do not know why ticket than a two-way ticket expensive, guangzhou-saigong two-way RMB2480. SJT kangtai to RMB1880, China Southern Airlines more resemblance to RMB2000. Later Chirolee help busy to RMB1650 Chi Minh City of Guangzhou-Ho ticket.Climate: hot & Wet
Languages: Vietnamese, to the original pronunciation of the Chinese Cantonese is very similar.
Some words from the Chaozhou dialect (e.g. lights---Do, mango-Den--Xuao). France invaded the previously used Chinese character writing, now some vocabulary to original Viet Nam to European languages, such as tourism-Du Lich)Currency: Vietnam Dong.
VND. 1USD = 14, 553VND (May 2001), the traffic on the tourism and accommodation more dollars quote and payment.Culture: Chinese, France's bread and urban architecture, local costumes and music in Viet Nam, the Champa culture passer.
History: the Qin dynasty, the Northern Territory has been part of China, the Kingdom of belonging to the South Vietnamese when Han (capital at Guangzhou), then the South Vietnamese State into the territory of China, Viet Nam experienced after a thousand years of Chinese rule.
Later, self-contained, and establish a Tran (Chen), LY (LI), LE (Le), NGUYEN (Nguyen) dynasties. Ming dynasty and included as a part of Chinese territory, and later the independent. But always cut ongoing Viet Nam relations with China, even now, "innovation" is a COPY of the policy of reform and opening up in China.Sunday, January 29, 2012
Viet Nam: road trip of sunshine dust (2)
From Guangzhou to Ho Chi Minh City flight, not many people have a lot of Viet Nam and Chinese. Riding is Viet Nam flights. Entered the engine room, if you do not see the garment, you do not see that Viet Nam and the Chinese people's differences. The stewardess wore Viet Nam's national costume, a bit of a learning Chinese cheongsam, long sleeves, trousers and also lengthen outside skirt. Starting to feel a bit strange. To Viet Nam, just know this kind of clothing is of wearing them middle school girls, just white. Long-sleeved zichang trousers for Sun protection. Viet Nam woman riding a motorcycle, wear this dress, belt tip bucket bamboo hat, also use a towel wrap the whole face, in order to prevent sunburn. Viet Nam Sun very ill. Our ten days there, every day the Sun blazing, came back close to the African people of color.
Aircraft flight by 2 hours, arrived in Saigon. Due to the time difference, the province an hour. 4: 15PM aircraft taking off, to Ho chi minh city's local time is 5: 30pm. The aircraft down, see the Delta of the Mekong rivers. There are a lot of good.
Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as SaigonNow the Westerners call it SAIGON. The locals but for old town called SAIGON. from the airport, for $ 100, Viet Nam shield more so I don't know how to count: 1455300VND. Many TAXI drivers waiting at the door. Go to PHAN NGO LAO street price 6USD. I bought in Beijing, also home of the Guide, and drivers really willing to USD4. From the airport to Lao, discover Phan Ngo SAIGON is a bit of a Westernized, 3 layer of French small buildings, yellow walls, the road is wide, very relaxed in a city. The Phan Ngo Lao Street, immediately lively. This is the focus of independent travelers Saigon, compared to Nepal with a full scale of Thamel are larger, but hilarious. most popular is Detham Street, Sinh Café Office in the small streets. There are a lot of family hotel/Tour Café, and small restaurants. Miss most is our hotel Vinh Guest House next to the juice bakeries, 3000VND a large glass of freshly squeezed juice, 1000VND a pastry.
Phan Ngo Lao's family hotel not expensive, very clean. With air conditioning and telephone bathroom a small bed of a large bed Standard Room 8-12USD. without air conditioning in the 6-8USD. If more than one bed, a bed in 1-3 USD.Detham Street is a transversal streets, in addition to the tour agents, guest house, there are many other things, Western restaurant, fresh juice store, call sweep by motorcycle, taxi, occasionally evening or morning to OPEN TOUR tourism tourist BUS, sit back, hit the push scooters CYCLO, hawking full MOTORCYCLES & CYCLES of taxi shop, pushing a cart of street traffic in hawker, pick a Viet Nam Viet Nam Snack basket selling, holding a big basket of French bread, holding a large base of pirated travel book Shuttle in the small restaurant patrons between marketing, holding a shoe at the table next to find Sassafras dirty shoes shoe Guide by child leaning on a blind old canes beg, fluffy hair with oil pants and ear slippers back a small backpack travel alone, or alone or third or second sexy only a bra and short Gallery of Western women tourists. In addition to the night, at any other time of DETHAM STREET are hilarious. The day of the Sun is very poisonous, but still bustling streets. To the evening, the café shop will all face the street direction stool placed, has filled the sidewalks, even on the motor road, shops, waiter, and lots of tourists, are facing the street, sitting down, like a glass of fruit juice or beer, as in a movie or show, like watching through the scenery.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Viet Nam travel: all the sunshine dust (5)
In the more independent traveller, you will feel great convenience. Before you go, I also found a lot of information about Viet Nam traffic, also asked on CTRIP, information is very limited and incomplete. Only know that the train is very slow in Viet Nam, from HANOI to HO CHI MINH CITY's S1/S3 ...
S7. From HO CHI MINH CITY to HANOI by train S2/S4 ... S8. There is a bus, but messy poor slow. TOUR AGENTS also have the long-distance buses, other information is lost. The SAIGON of PHAN NGU LAO Street, you'll know everything there is no need to worry about. The most convenient is the OPEN TOUR, from SAIGON to HANOI's full vote is $ 27, many major cities can reach down, swimming, and then for the company by the same BUS to continue the next trip. No one, OPEN TOUR of chain stores with local travel information, you can participate in local short half day/day ... ONE WEEK of travel, of course, you can find your own way. Open tour in fact provides a transport services and free travel information services, other accommodation/eat/.... is represented by your own Museum. Of course they can also help you. For example, in SAIGON, you can participate in the MEKONG DELTA them ONE WEEK TRIP, you can also do not have to purchase a full fare, purchase only a period, the next and then continue to purchase, or select another company. This may be a full your USD, but many freedoms. OPENTOUR is the day of departure, the evening departure. We've bought SAIGON-NHA TRANG-HOI AN-HUE-HANOI full votes. There are three nights in the car had to save a lot of time. Price noted OPEN TOUR company is SINH CAFÉ, in Viet Nam has five Center branch. SINH CAFÉ offers a variety of travel, car and everywhere the station, there is its cooperative management of accommodation, HOTEL up describes help handling baggage. You can live in their shop, or you can also select. In Viet Nam tourism, there is no need to worry about accommodation issues. And each station's OFFICE provides information on local tourist meals/\ local group information, etc. Many tourism are everyday events.We take the BUS from SINH CAFÉ SAIGON HANOI after all the way to swim to, and participated in the CAFÉ of HA LONG SINH BAY/CAT BA ISLAND tours. Along the way, you will encounter many of Europe's independent travel, backpack is great, even one that high backpack. You will also meet on different distances in the same group of people.
(6) Nha Trang-China Beach and Champa pagoda
Friday, January 27, 2012
Kung fragment 2, historical Museum of the war card
Many presented the book said to Ho Chi Minh City, be sure to visit the historical Museum of the war card.
I have specifically told myself I must not, and would rather go to the distant suburbs of more leisurely in the Museum of history of Botanical Garden, do not want to forcefully on the shocking photos of dehumanization, shocking and displayed is not a good thing.I never imagined myself into international hotel is located in the Museum's school.
Daily access to both see the walls of the gates, the gate of the tricycle must undergo and sell postcards tangle of hawkers and tourist bus brings teams of different colour of tourists. Now that the neighbors I couldn't pretend not to see it go to found an early morning walk time.The Museum is the usual plain appearance, high walls, silver-gray little door, no line on the physical color decoration, in this simple but since is was that paragraph is not far away from heavy.
Courtyard vegetated, scattered exhibiting a retired US Army fighter armoured vehicles and artillery shells, flower bushes they fade away old prestige.
Exhibition Hall has a large number of photos from those journalists, as well as the "revolution in Viet Nam and cut down the Warrior's head, US Army Photo" war mental patients themselves.Is the war to metamorphosis, or human nature itself ugly? even if I understand the hatred that eager to fight and I cannot understand why the United States soldiers can hand over the bombing of the mutilated body of bulk up like carrying a piece of art; I do not understand how can eradicate locusts and sowing pesticides destroyed and mutilation of similar herbicides.
In the war, in black and white photos of the record, I see that some people back to force lost all rights, including on your own body's control.Visit keli, many United States, with their children in immersion in formalin drops in for a long time to stop before the deformed babies.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Kung fragment v, spicy and sour Street
How many people are fascinated by the vitality of the city, she's busy pressing of vitality.
I think the number with the city cannot help Horn. Car and motorcycle tweets with thousands of people across the city wide or narrow, narrow streets, vying for the right to use the fighting over the road. There are several square in the city centre, is busy streets and an interesting contrast. Sitting in the last post, city square, near the distance a great variety of persons and circulation of the street, I understand why Westerners will suddenly from the bottom like this and not quite satisfactory.This has less tolerant of cities also easily accept me.
Hungry, they start looking for something to eat. I want to find that not Konishi restaurant also non-Chinese restaurant-a place where people love to eat. Visitors set a few streets are through, you did not find a place where I belong. Already the evening around the road horizons without lights, just thinking about is not a casual walk back into a just a restaurant, but in the last for himself a bend in the road, saw the not ideal of absolute style restaurant, half indoor half outdoors like Guangzhou as cooked food stalls.Sat long bar, shop assistant came along and asked something about the problem of what to eat, I looked at him, his hands when doing a recipe of gestures, he pointed to the wall with colorful paper.
I can't read that he knows. Stood up, he thought I want to go, after coming to speak. I just visited, and then pointing to a guest a large dish before the dishes he nodded and need this.Place simple ordering simple, but also quite comprehensive.
First previous-soup with water kimchi and a plate of the wet towel, then wash with a basket of lettuce and two small pieces of dough, although I have ever been in Guangzhou restaurant Viet Nam, may not know how these things. Hungry, willy-nilly have to eat a gas, finally I pointing up, a main course of the scene. Bottom is made of glutinous rice flour fries similar bulk child-like things, top with tomatoes, roast beef, then sprinkle a few coriander leaves and the other is not known for condiment cuisine. My appetite, hurry to eat up, hand and chopsticks and ... Taste excellent!Insist on eating the last piece of beef and casual child, I have been extremely satisfied.
Next to the checkout, when a man, they called and I like things that turned out to be the one to offer me no handy empty bowls, few things mixed up fine with food.To Viet Nam must have on her spring rolls.
Tried several times, most flavors, or street side of little women. Skin is made of glutinous rice powder, such as paper-like translucent. First put cooked beef, lettuce, vermicelli, bean sprouts, mint leaves, coriander, volumes, both sides folded in half, then cooked shrimps on separate, a left-right on, plus a long raw onion, continue to the volume, it can dip fish sauce, sour vinegar and pepper and eaten. Fresh and delicious.Women were more a flamboyant flower trousers, sit or squat in a little side expertly busy, sometimes looking at the sharp end round Hat down face, you laughed.
Fresh lemon cut opening up there, you have to squeeze a few drops on fresh green vegetables. Viet Nam's Greens are eaten raw, it is their traditional dishes. Gradually enter into traditional and French bread, styling there. Middle cut and added to meat, fish, shrimp, lettuce, pickles, called out the names of its flavor seasoning vegetables, keen is a tasty and nutritious lunch.Viet Nam Choi joined many Western dish element.
But it was obviously Oriental cuisine. The shadow in food. everywhere Day in the evening, walk to the River, into the Pavilion between one and a half open-air restaurant. Watch the Viet Nam Wen and English recipes, I try to read out the text of the spelling used in Viet Nam, DA BIN LU name, letter on crooked accents ignored, paternity has to understand, and I further asked him, this dish is very large, because da Word. He said no, but also explained out DA here what do you mean, "in short is a bit like Chinese food. We watched this name is known. "And so on vegetables end up, I realized that the Viet Nam restaurant sells, not just hot pot? use the Cantonese pronunciation: playing bianlu.Without any reason took to Saigon, like Kung is not looking for any reason.
Too many things can go to see, too many things can go to experience, too many things can go to the feeling, no matter her War Museum, the history of her past, her to livelihoods will price a pressure and pressure of tricycle 's, or making delicious to eat on the streets of women spring flowers like a smile ... This is a no matter how easy emotional city.Wednesday, January 25, 2012
From South to North Vietnam
This morning we went to the Capital, Ho Chi Minh City Tour by bus fare, as long as 6 dollars before noon to the border, only the second official procedure of leave.
One of the Cambodian women don't know why it won't be shut, she performed in front of all foreign tourists face deportation in the money (don't know how much money the first money too little, not too), and then cross the border.General entry card is take, but in Viet Nam has to get the window asking officials, and Viet Nam have health certificates, virtually everyone entering delivery over a dollar, get back 12000vnd (1 dollar convertible 15000vnd), there is a covered charges 2000vnd health paper disguised charges only.
Viet Nam's scenery and completely different in Cambodia.
In fact, Cambodia is basically a fertile plains, but relatively lazy Cambodians, often visible to the total absence of development of the land. But in Viet Nam, we'll be able to see a slice of a slice of lush land. It is said that Viet Nam is the world's third largest grain exporter, Viet Nam women who handworking, are all foreign tourists cameras chasing object. Walking in the streets of Viet Nam, and always have a hawker, tricycles, motorcycles-Fu to find your business, so I must have been at the head State: "No!" ，“No，Thanks！”My companion to Hanoi from hue, take the bus in the middle of the second point I lot has puncture, less than ten minutes, the bus around the immediate to the hawker, high traffic in mineral water, Orange, and Viet Nam were so diligent, believe economy sooner or later.
Ho Chi Minh City's Street crowded, odd lot motorcycles.
In Cambodia, the English everywhere, but in Ho Chi Minh City, and very few English words, as many Chinese characters (used in Viet Nam with Chinese characters until the one hundred years ago, one of France's missionary to Viet Nam voice invented now of Viet Nam text). I'm really concerned about, here how to communicate with people?16 February, Tay Ninh Hoa holy places
Sihn Office is Viet Nam's biggest travel company, the most popular tourist routes is the Mekong River (1-4 days), the Guide's only English and Japanese languages.
Because tourists too much (I think 10 tourist bus or so), I phase of "Hoa holy places + ancient Shiba road" tour was the 8: 30 start of the actual departure time is 9. Our tour guide was 61 years (in China, very rare to see such a large majority of the Guide), in the car with us about various issues, and Viet Nam to answer visitors ' questions (in addition to political issues).Hoa in the early 20th century South of Viet Nam, it appears to meet the needs of all believers, marries Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and the sermon, the gods of coexistence.
The Hoa's may, at the very top Central is Shakyamuni, left and right are the Laozi and Confucius; the second layer is the goddess of mercy, left and right in the middle are litaibai and gateway icon; the third layer is the Jesus; the fourth layer except Jiang taigong, there are statues of East and West. In all this is above the maximum "dominate" the Jade Emperor's eyes, as if the room everything not be able to escape the scrutiny of the Jade Emperor. Holy Land of Tay Ninh Hoa from Ho Chi Minh City 120 km, drive to there 11: 30, you can catch up to 12 o'clock, religious ceremony, but unfortunately I can only see the "amateur". Due to the Hoa Temple colours, is a completely strange religion murdered so many tourists.Authentic ancient Shiba is actually almost with China Didaozhan, but China is not like ancient Shiba that attract more foreign tourists.
(1-day tour is $ 4, plus $ 5 admission fees.
If you go back very difficult to find a car, you must pack their local bus very broken, from ancient Shiba road back to Ho Chi Minh City to 10 dollars, more expensive. )February 17, summer resort Dalat
Because summer resort Dalat Dalat in Ho Chi Minh City to Nha road, turn to the Northwest, therefore, some visitors time would put it ignored.
Before I read a bit Taiwan reporter travels, she said this in Dalat in subtropical areas has a temperate climate, beautiful town like the Philippines, like Greece Segada, like nine.In fact, the altitude only Dalat 1745 meters, but here the temperature is only 10 degrees Celsius, thus becoming a summer palace of the Emperor Bao Tai, a bit like China Lushan or Beidaihe.
I most admire or embellishes small town each road of mini Villa Hotel. I'd like to here more suitable for tourists here living, leisure, rather cursory flowers. Unfortunately I don't have the time, and the car has three Israel youth, specifically to Dalat go live a few days, so let me envious.But here the majority of English is poor, almost Chat does not continue, I not only want to use sign language, but also with pen and paper to let them know what I mean.
Dalat has several waterfalls, but will follow tours to go, I can only be used in a small town and see hints Lake, big Queen's Summer Palace, Church of the Virgin Mary.February 18, looking for COM eat fast food
Viet Nam has 2200 kilometres of coastline, see sea view famouser is North Vietnam Halong Bay, South of NHA and clams.
"Maritime" Guilin Halong Bay now has a lot of tourists, it is said that the Chinese tourists to account for Halong Bay for over 60% of the visitors, RMB there is very easy to use. Because many people with the Guangxi tolerated or doing business, so the Cantonese can also be used. Clam in Hong Kong is the Jiang Zemin's recent visit to Vietnam swimming places, this used to be the US holiday base, is a beautiful harbour city. NHA be blue of the sea, but a comparison of sand on the beach, but you can go to rough island diving.Viet Nam's many cities and towns in China, almost here, I could see the 1980s in China, especially suitable for visitors of nostalgia.
One dinner at the problem, but I am lazy prowled, find full street with com is IT company, which is the hotel. I found a home vegetable dish a plate on the street side of the hotel, Like in China called fast food, point three dishes before 8000vnd, inexpensive and delicious. I asked the shop fast food say, she does not know English, finally said yes COM, I do not know what exactly is fast food COM, or hotel.In fact, any place in hawker will call to aliens, the Cambodian-Vietnamese high prices is no exception, after I eat this kind of fast food, some will come with me to 1 million, then I said: "yesterday I eat only 8000.
"She also received 8000. However, the day in Hoi an, may be I'm chicken wing more expensive, she refused to reduce the price, just more clips a second piece of meat to me and I forget.In addition, sometimes they don't know is not specifically to you, for example: "two thousand", our reaction was 2000, but sometimes can be 2 x 1000.
That is, each 500.February 19, unusual funeral
Take a day late, very tired, hoping to have a bed sleep.
It is so clever, in the street I was caught in a that they signed up to be a companion to Myson (m)-day tour, I'm too sleepy to talk with them to the room key, thinking to the river around them to go back to sleep, I meet a funeral.At first I was excited that they can see water burial.
It is strange that staff clothing: commanders wear a suckling, make-up with singers like, take the second short knock wood roots rap, while the coffin is dressed like a calling. Wait until everyone aboard, they play music. Afterwards, I asked two Viet Nam people, they say there is no water was buried, here are the burial. Maybe you want to go to bury elsewhere?Viet Nam's grave is very strange, covered with small houses, also tiles.
But in the homes of the center of the front and rear, farmland can see to the grave. Of course there is also a cemetery, the past, there was a small house.Hoi an has a lot of Chinese Club, I went to three: Chinese Association, Zhaoqing Guild and Hokien, but everyone in the Guild doesn't speak Chinese, listen to the point.
Attracting visitors is here to tailor, can order Viet Nam Cheong, shoes and the like. Night Café is full of attractive antique, everything.February 20 people posing as Viet Nam
Hue is Nguyen Thi Kingdom (1807-1945) of the Imperial City, the old Royal Palace to the East of xianghe County is a smaller size of the forbidden city, the Strait xianghe several famous Royal mausoleums and pagodas.
Hue of xianghe tour very valuable, as long as 25000vnd, also package lunch, shore excursion of attractions there are 5: good mother Tower (Linh Mu Pagoda), spit more mausoleum (Tu Duc Tomb), man mount mausoleum (Minh Mang Tomb), Hung Chan Temple (Hon Chen Temple) and Kitty's Tomb (Khai Dinh Tomb). Although tickets are cheap, but tickets are expensive, but locals and foreigners, the difference is huge: the good mother Tower not money, three tombs of each ticket is 55000vnd (local people simply 5000vnd), Hung Chan Temple 22000vnd (local 4000vnd). Very fortunately, in recognition of a person and a Singapore, Sai Kung, the three of us are very dark, so that each person from Saigon to buy local, with door to say a few words to muddle through. Viet Nam The original is black too.Hue can go there, this is when the DMZ and southern Vietnam dividing lines, 1954, Ben Hai Hai is designated as the boundary between the North and South Vietnam, 5 km into the demilitarized zone, DMZ, the Singapore people tell me nothing.
Behind the old Royal Palace houses also has a lot of character, town square, just go up the street is very clean, with the walls of the small courtyard is only one two-storey houses, like when I was a living environment that is also a King.
21 February .Relics is what?
To Hanoi, the first thing to the train station take the ticket back home.
From Hanoi to Nanning train a week and only two classes: every Tuesday and Friday opening, but the train tickets have sold out next week. Ticket window side station a Chinese woman, because in a hurry home, managed to mobilize our scooters. We haven't mad about Hanoi, how can you go.In fact, tourists can take a train to climb in, their transit to houyiguan Pingxiang, Guangxi, and then back to Nanning.
I think with the group to look at Shaba, Viet Nam's ethnic minorities, but the mission to 4 days (the price is very cheap, $ 27 29 USD), my time is not allowed. Decided to take the overnight train to Lao Cai himself, took 106000 shield buy sheets of Hanoi-Lao Cai Berthon.Hanoi to citizens the impression has been very good, a small town in China, ragged, motorcycle.
But then the Kiem area and Pavilion Plaza area, the capital of style came out. There are buses, generally 2000 or more expensive than Guangzhou 2500vnd, but compared to ride a motorcycle to much cheaper. But strangely, the old saw buses running, ask people who don't know where is the bus station, the police don't know. We at the railway station to ask what bus you can get here, they have not understood what is bus. Then I asked him: "How did you come to work?" he replied: "I'm driving a motorcycle. "I'm really angry. Then we in the Pavilion Plaza near find a bus stop, fortunately, accompanied by an urban bus route map, go to the tour bus River. Find people by bus is really not a lot, when I want to travel to the railway station, has waited 20 minutes is not a bus, and finally had to take a motorcycle to, and use the "ticket + 1 million banknotes" such sign language in order to let each other know what I mean.In the Pavilion Plaza, building has closed the door, but there are a few guards guarded, we do not know if this is what some local, asked the guard door is opened the door, he said.
Later, we find a sentry box, the guard can speak English, butWe do not understand "Relics" is something that happens I of Salina without this term, for the first time been knocked the locals. Later with a Taiwan tour packages, just know there is a Museum of Ho Chi Minh, every body Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday, Sunday morning 7: 30-11: 00, we therefore have to wonder at Ho Chi Minh's body lying in State.22 February, Shaba Sapa
Hanoi to the old train that kind of small train (narrow gauge), very worn, open up left and right Akira, but very loud, I'm beginning to think that a night without sleep.
But then even straight till the train to the station, the impression the midway stops over car, 5 am half, it was called "Street!", but many people still in bed.Got off the train, he will be followed up, said to go to Sapa 2 million per person, before looking at the price of travel almost, I want to shop around.
I didn't expect when I talk to someone asking price, he would mean Baba with Viet Nam words shouted. I see no chance, just walk into the ticket office, that is to go to China, then disowned him. Ten minutes later, and then go to the yard, and finally to 1 million guilders.The main ethnic groups living in Sapa is the Hmong people, it is said that in Yunnan have 400 000 Hmong people, but I still don't know what ethnic minorities (this does not, for example, people is our Mien Yao people).
It is said that Sapa is the market every Friday, you can see many minority, today is Friday.Although the way you can see several minority and their huts, Sapa is now here, most of the buildings of modernization is a tile of the hotel, several minority girl holding a variety of things to do around tourists, I don't find it funny, go the second hour, eat breakfast, I decided to return to China.
The old street, my pockets also has 15 million guilders, have a 10 million guilders I want to keep as a memento.
"A banknote 10 million pieces, kidding!"Finally, the markets go up a few laps, bought 2000vnd tomatoes (1 kg), 13000vnd strawberries (1 kg), there is a water, the rest of the money out, but as a souvenir.
From the market come out, they don't know how to go to China, asked a few people that took me all of the languages that can be said also show my passport, they don't know what I'm talking about. It's not bad, just a little difference that the back does not go to China.Finally, I decided to cross the bridge to look at, because many national borders are relevant with the River, see "China's mouth", "" China Telecom, China-Word somewhere can speak Chinese.
I have such faith, did not think there should just border clearance Department. After customs clearance is Yunnan.I'm finally back speaks!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tinachu knapsack travels first — Tinachu major discovery in Sai Kung
Tinachu August 2002 alone backpack from North to South Vietnam Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
In unification Palace (the former President of South Vietnam, also called independence Palace), Tinachu found stopped at the gate of two tanks, there are a number of 390 B59 tanks are made in China, and it is this tanks in 1975 year 30 April morning was the first to break through the main door to get into the Presidential Palace, is the longest of the 20th century war-end the Vietnam war.Note: 1, Tinachu can provide relevant information to historical photographs and;
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That night, several Western Tinachu and mix together in a small restaurant.
The meeting, everyone is complaining about Viet Nam city motorcycle too much too brutal, and discuss is not Tinachu simply go rent motorcycles tomorrow, and let others better than ourselves crazy wild. Tinachu said: no, I don't have to rent a motorcycle, you will see unity Palace, Playin' tank? with a Chinese, I'm sure not CPVPaid this sum of money, so I'll just go back myself, cool!
They're happy.
And then there is a United States cowboy shot his forehead and said: Oh, I also can get tomorrow a United States tank, there are a lot of Ah, Sai Kung, CPV also absolute didn't pay money. Tinachu smiled and asked him: are you saying in war crimes Memorial that heap junk? the Cowboys face a red silence. Everyone laughed and detonation.The second night in a Tinachu Internet encountered the cowboy, asked him: Hey, buddy, today don't see your tank? guy shrugged and said: you're right, it's that pile of junk, so I went to the reunification Palace.
Do you remember there to stop a helicopter of the United States, is and drama [Miss Saigon] in many United States persons tried desperately to escape the skiff and finally a helicopter as it stands, I asked for them. You want to? Tinachu asked. That kid angry to say: the custody of Viet Nam Veterans first astonished half days, and then very sympathetic to tell me: Young man, I am very sorry to tell you that You Are Late. The helicopter u wanna catch had already flown away 27 years ago. Young people, I regret to tell you that you came late. You want to travel by helicopter in 27 years ago flew away.Saturday, January 21, 2012
National day of my trip in Ho Chi Minh
Friday, January 20, 2012
One single journey Viet Nam Sai Kung
Saigon airport does not have this like dirty domestic large bus station, is the rule, the national strength of different it is not required, 8 nights 10 pm arrives in Sai Kung, CBP may, because of language barrier they could not understand a question knowing curiously walk into Viet Nam, on the second day at the passport check only know only fifteen days, this was left out of the Viet Nam is public, in the past to other countries are translated as staff Secretary, even English peer is really bad practice only---will not.
Prior to his daughter in Australia call was informed that the "terrorist, know who their father is also female. Another company overseas business secretaries to me this means that every respect--and help me to cram a few words spoken, indeed prospects? I do not know it. In fact, as long as they have the experience, which includes a manual in English English abroad, then think about all the great Motherland traveled the world to fear, I is not a safe return! Kung in Southern Viet Nam, similar China Shanghai history only 200 years, European style extremely thick, red Church and other attractions in the city is quite good, there is a tour of the city, tours, most pristine, Viet Nam people are eager to help others, but since the opening, differentiated charging to foreigners than Viet Nam people high up from two to five times, and the situation in the 1980s and the like. As Saigon Hanoi tickets foreigners million, Viet Nam's one million, attraction tickets. Saigon city Hui, car disaster, more than the Guangxi Nanning, and traffic lights were out of order is a display, the police only in some important box, so the height of the block is serious, very poor air quality, person ride not wearing Sai hood wear a mask is a spectacle, Viet Nam Women slim indeed nice, friends have said that the Department of Asia-Viet Nam sister thirty women reported is true. At Kung also available through the travel agency for Phnom Penh, 4-day tour, as long as you hold a passport and a visa to Viet Nam. At present most of the investors in Saigon is Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, China and some, I went to Hanoi in Sai Kung, meets the second Tcl. overseas business difficult Ah, a year back home a second hard!I am a public key to the Taiwanese contacts in Saigon by their arrangements, can live in Sai Kung Lvyoumen Fong Ying hotel a day as long as 10 to 15 dollars, eating is not a problem in a thousand guilders can be folded more shield 1800 RMB yuan or so, before going abroad, be sure to bring dollars, no matter what the State is split with dollars than RMB are high, the second Exchange rate of RMB to exist.
Viet Nam poor traffic, a route through the North and South for about three thousand km road conditions are poor, but the ratio of Guangxi Dongxing into Mount Street, road, Viet Nam has not one kilometer wide Highway, railway, is a narrow-gauge 30 kilometers per hour, from Saigon-Hanoi 700 km, by train or car to the next day or so, communicate with Viet Nam introduced mainly Government poor no paragraph investment, current policy has not been open to foreign investment in the transport fieldI flew on 12, former Hanoi on Sai general feelings or can, although messy cities, but early France people do very good planning, the road is very beautiful trees, Sai people good, they are working hard, they have respect for China, and trying to learn Chinese, they very much hope that there's a bit like Viet Nam Chinese Premier Zhu seems to State for the people of the great statesman.
Sai is a Viet Nam economic centre, there are many opportunities, I met many mainland in Sai Kung, development are good, in the most competent cadre Taiwanese enterprises are continent in the past, if you can bear hardships may wish to go to our young Viet Nam hard to give it a try!02.10.19
Thursday, January 19, 2012
From Hanoi to Viet Nam, Sai-self-service travel strategy
Route Shanghai--Nanning — Dongxing — mount Street-Hanoi-Halong Bay-hue-Huian — NHA-Saigon-Hanoi — Nanning – Shanghai
Visa
Go to Viet Nam, there are two possible visa, the first is to use a temporary passport, must be with the group walks, and line limited lower Bay and Hanoi. The second is a tourist visa, with the private Passport, you can travel throughout in Viet Nam. We selected the second. Currently, the Viet Nam only in Guangzhou and Beijing in China Consulate visa issuing this, you can go directly to request an application form, or by agent processing. Visa fee is RMB 400 Yuan.
Nanning
How to: train: 1379 times, 10: 41 am, 8: 40 p.m. the next day that the ticket prices: $ 401 hard Sleeper beds
Aircraft: about three hours, the total price of the RMB 1,440
Accommodation: Nanning hotel is considerable, particularly near the bus station, house prices in the 80 or so can live to a very clean room
Dongxing
How to: Nanning to fast cars, David at 8: 30 and 11: 00 each have a fare of $ 40, time 3 hours
Customs
China Customs: passport and valid visa.
Phytosanitary certificates are not required for documents, this is the same to any one of the countries of Europe and North America are the same. Remember when the Customs will carry cameras, the camera returns to avoid a return to GATT is unnecessary.Viet Nam to GATT: requires a passport, valid visa.
Viet Nam Customs may request to view the phytosanitary certificate, be prepared for in advance. It is worth to remind that: customs officials may forget your passport covers immigration border (sounds a bit funny, he sat there duty is sealed in yibenben passports, how can he possibly forget? is forgotten in our passport covers this representative of national sovereignty of a stamp, let us in Viet Nam travel became a legal sense of the illegal immigration. Sounds a bit scary, so getting a passport, please remember to check whether the shield with the immigration border), Viet Nam customs must also be in the Declaration of your entry covers chapters (a separate application form for a piece of yellow, so when trouble)Viet Nam
Currency: Viet Nam currency shield (Dong) and Renminbi exchange rate is 1800: 1, but only in the Northern Exchange RMB (Hanoi, Halong Bay), from the middle to the South, you can easily use the local bank dollars Viet Nam shield, Shield of the exchange rate is 1 dollar convertibility 15,000. If you do not want to carry too much cash, you can use international credit card payments for large amounts (e.g. ticket), but each time you use a credit card to additional paid 2.5% to 3% service charge.
Climate: a year in the dry season and the wet season two seasons, the annual average temperature is 27 degrees Celsius, Rizhao full, outdoor activities, when you want to wear sunglasses and Sun, sunscreen is also a necessity.
Language: Viet Nam is a phonetic language, there are 29 letters, from Portugal missionaries in the sixteenth century created and in 1900 was recognized as the official language. In fact, the Viet Nam does not have its own language, the official language is Chinese. Missionaries in order to facilitate the Westerners to learn, according to the Chinese pronunciation created today's Viet Nam language.
AC: in Viet Nam, with backpackers-related industries, such as hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, airline ticket agent, banking, etc., you can use simple English Exchange with them, no problem, this is also known as world Viet Nam backpackers paradise for an important reason. Of course, not English native Exchange, you may face ' chicken and duck say ' plight.
Revenue: Viet Nam's average monthly income of RMB 200 Yuan.
Security: the security situation in Viet Nam's reassuring. Tourism is a pillar industry of Viet Nam, may bring the foreigner to worry about the security situation is strictly prohibited. The sense of security, with the city travel at home, without any kind of comparison.
Address: in Viet Nam in the use of mobile phones international roaming calls are rather expensive, in my own, for example: in Viet Nam in the global mobile phone dial Shanghai tenth, each call duration is less than one minute, for a total charge of $ 220 RMB.
Hawkers and driver: most yin to greet your feeling of Viet Nam. Unfortunately, their enthusiasm, only one law-answer: ' No, Thanks '. If you want to try to verify this law, the bet, you dare to try.
Mount Street (Mong Cai): because of border trade prosperity prosperous town
Accommodation: there are close to the bus stop ten family hotel, prices were between 80 to 100.
Attractions: so far haven't found
Halong Bay (Halong Bay): tourism advertising called ' sea Guilin '. Halong Bay is located is called Dragon city, divided into two parts by the West, an Eastern Gulf separates, called Hongji (Hong Gai), the West tell Al Chai (Bai Chai).
How to go: from Mount street bus station by bus Hongji (Hong Gai), fare 35,000 shield each, about four hours. Get off and walk about 100 meters to the West is the ferry terminal, every 10 minutes there is a ferry that cost 500 guilders per person, 5 minutes to worship the fortress. Upon arrival the hotel will not hurry to find, because thanks to the walled exciting places on the beach, away from the pier has two kilometers. flower 4,000 shield is a motorcycle, walk along the seaside, soon to.
Accommodation: there are many beach opposite the hotel. Suitable for backpackers accommodation, opposite the beach restaurant set in the region, turned the corner is
10 dollars can stay clean spacious double room.Dinner: here can eat Chinese seafood. Further south along some seafood to eat, price is cheap, but the practice and the different country, can be said to be unique, just eat the heart slightly unwilling. In Halong Bay, the two men spent hundreds to Yuan seafood, can eat you satisfied, not very corrupt.
Attractions: sea view, ' sea with ' is the essential program under the Bay. You can dock at the beach side of the ship their own packages, you can also participate in local travel agency tour.
' With ' on a variety of caves, it seems to me much better, but still the wind at sea by boat, or joy.Ha Noi (Ha Noi): noisy city
How to: thanks to the bus station in the East Village, away from the ferry terminal is very near. From here to Hanoi Golden bus station (Kin Ma) approximately three and a half hours, fare 40,000 guilders per person. Cameron station, reached by motorcycle to Kiem (Hoan Kiem Lake). By the way: Viet Nam is most convenient for the city transport is motorcycle, cheap shortcut seems to be also very secure (from North to South, we have not seen together motorcycle accident). Affected by the former donkey were respected Cyclo (a passenger in the front, the driver in the manpower tricycles) is only suitable for short-distance travel, the price is not low.
Accommodation: the Kiem North of the old town (Old Quarter), around the family hotel, backpackers who mostly live in this region. There are too many options, sometimes it's a headache, especially when you full is a stranger. Therefore provides the following Hotel, we stayed in a hot air conditioning, satellite TV, small refrigerator, daily changing sheets quilt cover and the distant, sounds not bad:
Sports Hotel
Address: 96 Hang Bac Street, Hanoi
Tel: (84-4) 9260 0154
Price: $ 8/day
Dinner: in the same area there are many Café, serving Western dining, the price is approximately equivalent to the restaurant of a package. The problem is not easy to find Chinese restaurant. Or you can try local small restaurant, if you are sure that your point is to be served.
Attractions: the Long Bien Bridge, Ho Chi Ming ' s Mausoleum, the Temple of Literature (Temple), Water Puppet, City Museum
Open Ticket: this is equivalent to the set of a car, the starting point is Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City is the end point (Sai), intermediate in several major cities of residence, residence time can be of any length (no more than half a year, it seems too long point), you decide to leave for the next city on the day before to confirm seat, sit on the second day of departure. Backpackers in almost all chose this way to travel. This type of ticket mostly provided by the travel company, they can provide car service, can provide accommodation and catering of cities, a bit of a one-stop service. One of the most famous is Sinh Café, we sit in a Café T&M Brother ' s, are very similar, will not save you time on the road. The fare is $ 26 per person, total distance about 2,200 km.
Hue (Hue): Viet Nam last dynasty capital
How to: get on Open air conditioner bus Ticket, 8 p.m., the second day at about 10 o'clock, intermediate stop several times, noodles to eat breakfast, and n-th PP, this ancient city.
Accommodation: Hotel Hanoi is not like that, you can try to get off my walk to find, it is recommended that you do not live in Open Ticket recommended hotel, in the light of our lessons learned, this is not available in this city hotel. You do not have to worry about finding the next station, you are in any hotel stay, the hotel's address to Open Ticket, they will arrange to meet you.
Attractions: the Royal Palace, DMZ
Hui'an (Hoi An): old town, is said to be one of the best preserved
How to: Open or take a Ticket on the air bus, 8 a.m. start at 2 pm arrives. From hue to the road of Huian, recommended by national geographic as 50 life will come to a place.
(I say: it's not deceptive. don't believe? you will go to the Shanghai one week, Ask Kevin)Bar: Open Bus will take you to several hotels around, in all the hotel visited, we chose the last go this:
Green Field Hotel
Address: 1C Cua Dai St, Hoi An
Tel: (84-510) 863484, 863658
Twin room standard with Hanoi Sports Hotel, no airconditioning, Room 8 dollars.
Attractions: the old town within the go go in, My Son (lost mountain)
Nha (Nha Trang): coastal city, Viet Nam people are trying to put it into the badiya Viet Nam
How to: turn on the sat
Open the air conditioner bus Ticket, 6: 30 start at 6 p.m. arrival. Do not lose the SCEN in Huian to Nha that road.Accommodation: the hotel has seen sea view room, and the beach is only one street away from the standard over the three-star hotel: Home
Tram Huong Hotel
Address: 74 Tran Phu St., Nha Trang City
Tel: 84-58-811548
Price: $ 15
Beach: NHA Viet Nam of beach is the best, about six kilometres long. The color of the sea is a true blue. More unusual is the beach tourists surprisingly little. Beach Chair rentals are per day per 10 000 guilders. If you have enough time to have some fresh sea breeze, here, the Sun, listening to the soothing sound of that ignorant Palace is introduced.
Seafood: Beach opposite corner has a selling seafood old too, we were there even ate two nights, the price is unbelievably cheap: a just over a kilo of lobster, four big bowl of crab too, there are a dozen large conch, a total of five dollars. with lemon juice and black pepper, and two bottles of beer on ice. ..
The taste that I recall date.Attractions: Nha Trang Beach, Cathedral, Railway Station
Sai (Saigon)
How to: Open and is sitting on a bus Ticket for air conditioning, 8: 30, 7: 30 pm get
Bar: Open Bus will take you to the backpackers clustered for bum 5 Argyle Street (Phan Ngu Lao St.), on-line a lot of people it is popularly known as the Van's Street, is misinformation about (perhaps under the influence of ' Bachelor '). Small two blocks, together with hundreds of hotels to 1 make people a little, puzzled. The following are we lived in one of two companies:
Bich Thuy Guest House
Address: 5 Do Quang Dau Street,
1st District, Ho Chi Minh City
Tel: 84-8-8369953
Price: $ 8, including free breakfast, and perhaps best of all Viet Nam coffee. There was a girl from the article post called "Kung is my home", is here.
Mekong (Mekong River)-day tour: you can join the following travel agencies, in the Mekong River to go by boat, sitting on a beautiful island restaurant for a meal, a day of relaxed leisurely days:
Delta Adventure Tours
Address: 187A, Pham Ngu Lao St., Saigon
Tel: 84-8-8368542
Price: $ 9 per person
Tickets: from Saigon flights direct flight to Shanghai, every Monday, a group of four different, Shanghai Airlines, fares to 280 dollars (took one look, can't remember exactly). We buy are from Saigon Hanoi airline tickets, Viet Nam, there are six classes each day, fare $ 125, can go to the following points to purchase an airline ticket agent:
Nam Duong Air Travel Agent
Address: 43 Bui Vien St., District 1, HCM City
Tel: 84-8-8369630
Attractions: Cholon, Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and Post Office, the Opera House
It is worth mentioning that the War Remnant Museum (War Museum), exhibiting numerous black and white photos of the Vietnam war, battlefield reporters to life for the bet to. Many of them, unfortunately, gambled, failed to live out of the war. This is my first time in my life so truly close to the war, a winner of the war. Almost no words to express, you can only use one Japan visitors guestbook on the inscription to express my mood: shock shock. There are photos on display, two mothers, in order to escape the raging fire by us military village, embracing her own children, jump into the River. The River is so urgent that mothers is almost powerless to hold children across the River. Photographer photographing this moment: photos in the mother's eyes. Like a stuck in the trap in its death throes of the beast's eyes. Photos for the world's journalists ' highest honor: the year of the Pulitzer Prize. If you are a thought through war can solve all problems, go there and see that you will grow your mind and no longer the militant; If you are a peace-loving people, go there and see, you'll be more determined your convictions.
Return: Basic, from the original road is just returned from Saigon-Hanoi this section by plane.
Advice: If you cannot stay in Viet Nam in the territory of more than three weeks, it is recommended that you do not choose us route, because it leaves too many regrets. If the time sufficient, please go to the South from Hanoi and don't leave Sai as a point of departure to the North, unless you have a mental self-flagellation.
Statistics: this travel itinerary for about 8 km, time-consuming 17 days, over nine cities, total expenditure RMB 5,500.
/p>Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Viet Nam impression-sequence 2
I went down the Bay, where the package a boat out to sea in the morning, in an attempt to be like as seen sea Sunrise BA, don't want to run into the fog, the Sun only until ten o'clock father-in-law sleepy eyes moistened pine from the Bay of the sea with crawl out behind.
However, a person sitting of 30 individual ship, in the absence of a yacht of morning sea floating, it feels really good.
Moreover, in the morning mist is indeed very beautiful Halong Bay, although the United States did not give me too much of a shock.Halong Bay and Jiuzhai, is a must to go in life once, but can only go to one place.
Then I went to Hanoi, the capital of the country.
Here everywhere is filled with the smell of Viet Nam, without hard breathing, they will directly choke into your nostrils. Stand on the streets of shops, excessive reproduction of motorcycle, street stalls, retaining of itinerant entanglement there is taste exotic snacks,, unfamiliar girl smile ..... This is like a group of beautiful and romantic spirit, so that an early solution to this style of traveler captivated. The noisy city, it is into this strange lands. In a dream by night, this curious child, pushed open the door of the piece, see inside the bustling hive of activity, on the stage, lights such as Web, everything is so fresh and exciting.However, this did however is a door to enter the real of Viet Nam, but also to the South, to the South, to the South.
In Hanoi to stay for three days, bought the hoi an, hue, NHA, Dalat Sai with ticket (Open Ticket), in a hurry and confusion of the evening, I jumped on the go and hue of nocturnal auto.
Nocturnal auto is undoubtedly a unique experience.
Here, the exterior is a dark night, surrounded by strange people, all outside temptations in this small space are gone, so a person can be more focused on their own.Thinking as a result, if the language barrier is so strong, and I cannot find any significance on the go, then, let me forget about the significance of existence.
Just life in a strange city, and strange people live.
Even though I know nothing of the world, I am also happy to enjoy my every day.
In the quiet in the morning, wake up from the nocturnal car, I was in the middle of the Viet Nam field Sunrise moved to mess.
Then I went to the hue.
This ancient city with a long history, this tranquil little town is undoubtedly the narrow territory of Viet Nam a Pearl.
This is true of Viet Nam, there are good and honest people, here are white group flying traditional woman in Viet Nam, here's a history of thought, here's a real shock.So I hit, I was here was Imperial City, the city was one unknown man hit.
They like to see a random text, break, break, break through the language of all the visible invisible barriers, accurately hit me the unsuspecting hearts. I saw this country beautiful exterior, that nourished the Pearl has experienced pain.So I put the deepest feelings of stay.
If to you can only select one city in Viet Nam, I would not hesitate to choose hue.
Then I will send, however first Ahn Jin-don't hurry to arrive.
From the port of hue to the clams (Corbicula port in hue-Hoi an, Hoi an en route to 40 km/h) of that paragraph, referred to as man and nature, the perfect combination, thus winning 50 life must be one of the places.
Walk this way, I admit, this is true.
But I can only say this because my language is weak.
(To be continued)
Ann pig @ Kung
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Ho Chi Minh city-name change and history of evolution
In the 17th century, the migration to the South Viet Nam person arrives in their later called Saigon.
At that time, the original inhabitants of the Khmer people of Cambodia. 1859, France people occupying Sai. From Saigon to become France Indochina bustling economic centre and France in the colonial Center of South Vietnam. With the outbreak of World War II and the Viet Nam nationalism awakening, France losing on Viet Nam's control, when the 1954 France following the withdrawal from the Viet Nam Viet Nam was divided into two parts of the South and North Vietnam, the capital of Saigon as South Vietnam. Subsequently, the Viet Nam war. This is a band to the United States and Viet Nam people suffering the pain of war. When Viet Nam Communist Party culminated in the protracted war, 1975 Viet Nam regained unity, their leaders have passed since the Ho Chi Minh. However, Hu Zhi-min in the hearts of the people still enjoy great prestige, they will be renamed Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon to commemorate the national hero.Witness the evolution of Ho Chi Minh City, there are many old buildings.
Their name and the name of the city, with history. Located in the center of the unified City Hall's House (Reunification Conference Hall), completed in 1966. It was built in the preexistence 1873 France House (Norodom Palace). In 1954 after France's withdrawal from Viet Nam, it became the Presidential Palace in South Vietnam. February 1963, dissident air raids, the Presidency has been seriously damage of building structure. South Vietnamese President Ngo DinhDiem determined the construction of a new independent House (Independence Palace). 1975 year 30 April 11: 30, Viet Nam PLA troops occupy separate House tanks. Independent House into a military Commission's VCP municipal headquarters. December 1975, independent House became the national unified venue. To mark this event, independent of Government renamed the unified City Hall.Now, the consolidated City Hall has become famous tourist attractions in Ho Chi Minh City, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.
Here, not only can you feel the history of changes, you can experience the fusion of Oriental and Occidental culture. Design is the unified town hall in France of Viet Nam on tree architects Wu (Ngo Viet Thu), in his design, the concept of modern architecture in the West and the Oriental culture of elements to a perfect balance. The front of the building, the architects well-intentioned implies several Chinese characters: "mouth, XING (well), Gil," reflecting the Asian philosophy of life. At the same time, the whole building design neat, sufficient lighting, functional, is typical of modern Western architectural patterns.Square cultural fusion of thing not only reflected in the architecture, but also reflect the change in Viet Nam and the development of language.
When the Chinese arrive in Viet Nam for a period of time, will be surprised to find that although the writing in different ways, some of the Viet Nam Wen pronunciation and meaning and Chinese are very close. Indeed, the modern Chinese language by Viet Nam and French influences. So far, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Museum also exhibits at France missionaries Alexandre de Rhodes photo. This is the name of the seventeenth-century France to Viet Nam's missionaries of Viet Nam text Roman, forming a separate written text ("Chöõ QuÂc Ngöõ"). This at first is only applied to the Catholic Church to teach the Gospel and France colonial management of local people, now become the Viet Nam national use of written text.Compared to the development of Viet Nam text, Ho Chi Minh City Museum of history, of course, much simpler.
Like many buildings in Ho Chi Minh City, its name with the history of development and change. It's great "Blanchard de la Brosse Museum". After France's withdrawal from the colonists, 1956 renamed "Sai Viet Nam National Museum", this name has been used to unified Viet Nam in 1975. In August 1979, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Museum of history was established. The Museum exhibits many ancient archaeological discoveries and the period of the southern region of works of art.Standing at the Museum of history of Viet Nam was accompanied by a map, I visited two Viet Nam young briefed to Viet Nam's territory, cannot help but also relate to the topic of war.
They said that although a lot of people in Viet Nam were killed in the Vietnam war, but now Viet Nam and the United States maintains good relations. These two young people, a company in Korea, a force in the United States company. When we work together with motorcycle through the city, when we talk about modern media, networking, transnational corporations, joint tastes of Hollywood stars, I found the history, or the war did not give the younger generation to leave too much heavy or shadows. In fact, this is a very good attitude. After all, we understand the history, not to bear hatred.Departure from Viet Nam of that morning, I sat in the hotel's buffet restaurant.
At the same table is a bit old European gentleman, he is was a front coffee. Then, the temporary table to a Western couple with three children in Asia. Settle the children sit down, start to care for their breakfast. Elderly see this scene, eyes suddenly become so kind and gentle. He is dedicated to watching them for a long time, and then I put out three fingers and thumbs up. I know, he must be like to say, they suddenly adopted three children that's remarkable. At that moment, really feel that this world so sweet!-Modified the article the Ho Chi Minh City ... "Miss Saigon" published in the South window of 2002. 12, this is the original.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Self help travelers paradise
Throughout Viet Nam travel is very convenient, and more from North to South, room and Board, transportation and more convenient and cheaper, speak English more and more people, more and more high-quality tourist services.
Not only travel agency service is convenient, the hotel is also very helpful. You can set in the hotel to the next station ticket or surrounding short-term tours or coach to the hotel to meet people, or send to send the hotel guests aboard the ship.Sinh Cafe tour the famous, the country from North to South, has its accommodation and recreational vehicles, low price, greatly facilitates self-help visitors.
You can buy a coach ticket, get off at any one of the cities along the way, as long as the advance to local Sinh Cafe booking can next trip, of course, you can stop a station to buy tickets.More expensive than the local coach coach two or three times, but is safe, comfortable coaches and drivers will a little English, visitors are also easy to Exchange.
Throughout the entire route 1 in Viet Nam is the main artery of transportation, but the roads are very general. Local bus full of used cars, car congestion, on the roof of a heap of goods such as hills, often see them stopped at the roadside drivers into the car, passengers with frustration around the sides. Strange dump of coaches are often long behind the driver actually coach for safe driving is very stable, not for speed. Take the overnight train can save you time, nocturnal buses always make people think of theft, robbery, roll-over, but the night coaches to Viet Nam I feel good. Although it does not offer the sleeper, but hard to sit also OK, mainly to ensure safety, you can relax the mind and sleep. Busy day and night bus route 1 in streaming, safety is the first. Coach management comparison strict, and only allow foreigners travelling in Ho Chi Minh City, police will stop the car.Ho Chi Minh City is divided into 10 more County (equivalent to our region), 1 County is located in the city centre, is the traveler's Wang Zhe, subsequently, Sinh Cafe franchise, complement each other, making the first County Wang on kawan.
Approaching Sinh Cafe is located in De Tham Street, you see many of the buildings on the street are written "Room for Rent (rental)" brand and, of course, linked to the "Hotel (hotel)," no less.
From the North all the way to the South, accommodation is straight decline in rental is perhaps one of the special features of Ho Chi Minh City. Here are five-or six-storey houses, in General, the upstairs downstairs is paved, rental room narrow stairs. These rooms are with bathroom, 4 to $ 8, $ air-conditioning plus 2. 4 dollars a room with toilet room may be the best, although room only one double bed and a single fan, but the bathroom has a water heater that have hot water at any time. The hotel's bed sheets are sent to professional bed cleaners, relatively clean. The hotel facade is slightly better, the $ 7 to $ 20. Tourist rooms are often full during the peak season, looking much more room to go several.The most exciting places in the street to number Sinh Cafe, house walls are parts of the shuttle and the surrounding short-term travel pictorial presentation, a message board is turned on, the tourists attendants from morning to night busy, answering the phone, and guests talk, invoicing, collect the money----green dollar; outside early in the evening is waiting for a bus.
In addition, there are Street Cafe Sinh 34 travel agency, tourist line more or less the same, the price is almost the same, the difference between a maximum of 1 dollar. Streets of souvenir shops and travel goods shop and guests like cloud, restaurants within coffee fragrance.De Tham Street East and of the parallel of a Bui Viet Street rental is relatively more, better and cheaper, it is important to keep quiet.
We live Moon Inn (Giang) is a six-storey Pink House, 3 rooms on each floor, two lives on in a single room, one double room facing the street is. Double room of about 10 square meters, white bed sheets, 1 m see wide bed, two sofa a coffee table, small refrigerator, 14-inch color TV, telephone, electric fan, desk lamp, chandelier, clock, wardrobe, desk, big Windows, some long flowers bloom honghua in. The bathroom is not small, have a bath and hot water. The most attractive are two semi-circular small balcony, we are often on the balcony looking around to see the balcony blooming flowers, look at the pedestrian street of all colors, looking across from the balcony of the visitors, in the evening you can enjoy the Red of the sunset. This clean, bright rooms at $ 7 a day, really cheap. Moon Inn also accept subscriptions, credit is good, the room booked is even with the new guests seeking accommodation they have left the room reservation guests. I think live Inn has the smell of Viet Nam, and coming, self-help visitors Exchange travel experiences, and not in uniform shop talk everyday matters, also can not big Auditorium was a short coffee table and a clerk with a home-cooked meals.There is a Cafe and other travel first-class Sinh "line," "swim" service, there are so many good small hotel and various more vegetable Western cuisine restaurant, Mekong Delta's original style and seaside bilang long beach, and security than imagined, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam and the whole into a backpack visitors paradise.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
And lines and cherish (Cambodia and Vietnam travel 2)
Today, all in the car through the
Go to Viet Nam, is an unexpected results.
Had intended to stay in Angkor, came a week than change quickly, and plan in Phnom Penh to an international friends talking about diving experience, dance of Viet Nam, there are a number of missions over time, so the change of plans, ready to spend a few days of Viet Nam. So the person who commissioned narin help me get a visa ($ 30, and a photo), also spent 6 dollars for bus tickets (bargain fare spent abroad 6 dollars). And then start packing at night, large bigpack hosting hotel, little Wolf claw carry-on, thought there should be no omissions, 8 p.m., eat and drink enough to wash sleep, suddenly thought not prepared Bible--Viet Nam lp. Gosh, where there are pinned? upside of buy tomorrow is blind woman into Viet Nam?Had to hard up narin scalp, find the international friends borrowed.
Hang up a big smile on narin GH duty tierry said: "you have no information about Viet Nam?"
He lifted the eyelids to look at me: "no"
Did not give up, asking: "what do you have a hotel or travel agency, Sai Kung, can you recommend?"
He looked me over for a long time since the eyelids, reaching your right opened the drawer, half day, took out a blue bricks thick lp Viet Nam or genuine.
I caught up, hold, says: "can I borrow this?"He laughed.
So I didn't mince words, swept away.Night night Ph., develop my beautiful trip, and the abc three options option, everything properly, is in the middle of more than 11 points.
A night out dream, dream to own catch the wrong train, dream to not set to go to nha trang by train tickets, intermediate or wake up several times, good in the second day, there are a lot of time in the car repair, is considered the heart.
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6: 45 in the morning, the gate of the narin, I went from Phnom Penh to the bus.
Line out of Phnom Penh city, the roads from last year has been improved, about 2 hours, 1-channel are relatively flat, did not see the predecessors gonglue crater in the scene. The way the broad expanses of green, paddy fields, the first sight, and touch the clouds in the blue, pleasant. Rice fields also tall coconut trees, sporadic scattered in various places, far away, a cloud hangs down, as if the hand you can wring a flower. The road from time to time visible red roof small house, eight feet high in the paddy field, kids naked squatting on the stairs, holding a donburi dinner. There are also large Hawthorn, autumn in October, Lotus has been disabled, but look at all the Lotus Leaf floating on water, or you can imagine the summer "Add boundlessly PI, the redder". Occasionally women shake their tiny sampan, Hawthorn, wipe with water mark, but also rapid closure, a tranquil rural scenery.This peace of mind, until you reach the border will be broken.
Car to the border, a wooden up hospitality break down all the luggage.
A warm greeting from owner came forward to restaurant, take a look at the menu, but is not a sticker shock, heart material will catch, but don't know where to run. Bought a coconut green holding suck juice, approximately 20 minutes after closing. Wooden and up to hold my bag, I strongly reacts as 35 liters of luggage, declined his kindness. Peer is critically other passengers will be thrown into the wooden ladle, own Shi shi so swing.Boundary stone from shops to about 800 meters, La touch to a boundary stone, Board the driver said he is not pointing out of bounds, the remaining distance to you own carrying the statue of the foot, and claims that the charge per piece of luggage, a beautiful Portage is sharenbujianxue Ah.
Several international friends a great spot to shout their rejection of corruption thousand hundreds of SEO.
Local barbarians rapidly around to, some also reached intent look peer Belgium sister wallet. See potential bad, I turn left, and chivvying companions said: "faster than boundary stone, the guys didn't dare tell over national borders," Mack has finally escaped into Viet Nam. Look back at the gang mellows locals, not scared of.The customs clearance has spent almost an hour, the language barrier, local officials know English, quite a lot of trouble, and border officials have a passion for extortion and bribery, wilful blindness to exempt 2 dollar losses.
Blizzards, and some of us ran behind much luggage, before returning to a few times to get all the procedures.Then put on Viet Nam local car is 1: 45, line about 3 hours to arrive in Saigon.
Road traffic has been excellent, there is a high speed, and war-torn Cambodia is under the breath, I sleep all the way, do pig dish.******************************************************************
Fourth day 9/29/03, 7 am to write to the nha trang t.m.brother ' s coffee
The overnight train arrives in nha trang.
Last night in only three hours, so seize the time went to travel agencies strongly recommended the central market, screaming.
Concluded, whether to go to that city, strongly recommended not to go travel market, cover such markets and the domestic and the large wholesale market, go in as is '' strategic materials such as clothes, shoes and so on, and then the quilt is kitchen utensils jewelry glasses as well as the so-called tourist souvenirs. Of course, if the girl is interested on cosmetics, you can spend time here, there was a stall is specially imported cosmetics and perfume, I live with friends in a SMS link, found here the price and the sasa several of cosmetics.Have patience and walk in a circle, as also escape, but at the door but I found a treasure.
About touch palanquins, city
OTC hawker who began to build a gazebo, there's also the display of neon signs, attract locals and tourists. Sale of various local Pergola there, have a BBQ seafood snacks, Viet Nam rice flour, fruit juice, betel nuts. My nose at this point, follow the aroma come to a fairly large gazebo. A pot to boil away on the stove, the darker red soup body roll, from time to time, patches of shape on suspicious solids. Bow to the smell, the smell of sweet and sour. Next to a glass counter, which is boiled prawn, red volume Scamp stack up, is tempting. Shrimp is Trotter, next to or halogen, dark red which looks a bit head, then past is assorted meat roasting, roast meat, Roast goose roasted pork ribs. I have a passion for Guang Mei, actually saw in a strange land, help index larger still. Find a seat to sit, and the boss a few half-day, she finally nodded to leave, I sit upright, and thought, I wonder if I take content from her hand out will look like?After about 3 minutes, the little girl to me on a plate of raw vegetables.
Use chopsticks pullout, no one I know of. Picked up a tree to smell, the taste of a mouthwash. Should I take half a day was actually is such a thing? angry little girl and to ask, this time to a handsome boy, was I a powerful jaw, apex of the Khan. He receives a half day I realize that the first up is a supporting role, the protagonist is at once. After about two minutes, the little girl holding a bowl of Red oil oil soups in my eyes, and motioned to me to be raw vegetables into stir the soup. I say, and monkey anxious wait a minute, making up chopsticks.Ah, really delicious Ah.
Write this thing, I was sitting in the Office, although evening meal seafood meal waiting for me, I still Miss Saigon city of exceptional night-rice noodles.Drink a hot soup, sweet and sour, boiling down.
And then eat a bite of Viet Nam rice noodles, with smooth, use chopsticks and then read, find the three pieces of roast meat, skin crispy meat tender, taste good, needless to say, I continue to treasure and pulls out some cuttlefish, squid, pot roast with coals before, so with a roast of specific tenacity, rather than soup cooked too soft, and soft rice noodles with food, comparable to the Guinness Book of Saint's "peanuts and spiced crunched the dried beancurd with, ham taste". Finished these, continue to find, and discovered the two pieces of meat, Roast goose, clams and three grains of a Palm-size cooked shrimp. Rich content like national day firework k, at multiple layers. Finally checkout, as long as 15000 Viet Nam shield, and RMB 8 second angle. But I must keep my belly to taste other booths, will call a bowl.Perimeter along the market again a circle, will all look fresh and beautiful things to try again later, my belly is large than came.
Rao, I also carry a two pound longan, prepared on the overnight train to eat what. Incidental sentence, Viet Nam longan big as pigeon egg before 12000 shield a kg, i.e. 6 Yuan RMB.Carrying two catties longan, I've got to go to nha trang by overnight train.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The mysterious beauty of Viet Nam, Sai Kung,
Viet Nam the terrain like S-shaped, broad intermediate condensation narrow ends.
Like Viet Nam Women often carry, North and South ends of the Green and fertile plains, North to the South of the Red River Valley, is is Jiulong River.To Viet Nam tourism, equal to an attractive, colorful new tourism stations: the wonders of the world's Bay diving and sea-view tourism; rare clear and elegant scenery, wenfeng Beach; "the first hole," the southern caves, skydiving climbing tour; mystery of mitani stalactites, green cave and Feng ya cave; natural, tropical gardens, mountains, Plains, plateaus, and mountains of scenic tour, view to Viet Nam's unique original forestry and birds; tropical summer of temperate climate city-big Le Tour.
Also, especially Viet Nam Millennium special style, rich Oriental flavour of customs and etiquette, historical and cultural footprint of cultural tourism.The capital Hanoi a year, summer, autumn and winter seasons, in the Center area, visitors will see Kiem Lake clear green, here, in the Lake Centre has a small Tower, this is the "tortoise Tower".
Kiem surrounded by lively bustling streets and high-rises.
These long-Hanoi old: money, poetry, peach shop, shop, silver, iron, drum shop shop and sugar, and so on. These places are concentrated production and marketing of prosperous market, still keeping the antique character.Sai Kung, embankment, Jiading, now Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam is the most important economic, cultural and Trade Center.
The capital Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City from 1730 km southeast of land, although not as Hanoi old age, but was founded in 1862, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, the harbour becomes a contact world of lush commercial port.
It is one of the three central Viet Nam of the municipality is also one of Viet Nam's economic center, the country's largest port and transport hub. Located on the northeast side of the Mekong Delta, the Dong Nai River, Sai River and the Wei River formation in a Delta, the Sai River right bank.To Ho Chi Minh City's visitors can tour many of the beautiful scenery, monuments, everywhere is Park, temples and attractive entertainment venue.
Ho Chi Minh City is the most tourists to the city of Viet Nam, there is no too many new buildings or new road, the entire city are people old and old feeling, perhaps the old style is characteristic of Ho Chi Minh City is located.
Eighteenth-century France, in Ho Chi Minh City people's heart, not only greatly influence the lifestyle, the city is full of France, many beautiful colonial buildings of France became a place where tourists wander.Ho Chi Minh City is a sleepless city.
In the city, all full of color and activities after living under the neon lights of many people. Shop opening hours long, from daytime to night activities. Hawkers are pushing a full cargo of cars along the sale, the students take your cycle to school, especially female high school students, they wear white gown, the wind blows Viet Nam traditional clothes, good not graceful.The city seems to be that everyone is busy.
Business, learning and building are the same, for their life and busy, you came to this great city, to the vibrant city of bustling, lively and attractive. Said Ho Chi Minh City is a shopper's paradise and however, there are countless little shop for fashion and all the modern business centre districts replaced the traditional open-air markets.Ho Chi Minh city life as before, more than any other city, modern-style palatial mansion 0005 obscure French period of expensive villas.
Ancient temples built next to the Russian style housing. Wear the traditional long gown of Viet Nam women used mobile phone contact information with friends. At the same time, the old human tricycles must give way to luxury cars.Crowded image is a vivid reflection of this city, 1862, France announced at that time the colonialists Saigon city is the capital of the territorial Indo, France were developed here one broad Avenue, every avenue, the shade is everywhere.
There is in the heart of the magnificent villas, famous buildings have a romantic Villa Hotel (today's city people's Committee Office), Notre Dame Cathedral and bin Cheng market.Line to the sea bin Cheng market, there are a wide variety of merchandise to you supply: flowers, fruit and vegetables, meats, traditional arts and crafts, foreign imports of electronic appliances and all kinds of beauty products.
To the South of the district, which is the Chinese district, one small streets have you feel like in a maze. Each market is crowded with people, there are Chinese people antique temples. In rising road tour, you can be when the six million population of the city had a rest and to participate in a variety of recreational activities, eating and drinking is everyone's concern. Restaurants can be found everywhere, from the side of the cooked food stalls to five star restaurants, large dining room. More than 20 years Jun abated war, the city night noisy scene has been restored. The city has a lot of places are worth a visit. Bar billiard Club, music performance venue, in the evening take a boat tour of Saigon River, or go to the modernization of the dance hall, you will see a lot of dress trendy young people in the wake of the international music and dance.You will have the opportunity to witness a society in transition.
You only need to spend a few days time, you can feel the immediate change of the city. When you have the opportunity to see in Hanoi, Viet Nam ancient traditions of the United States, you have the opportunity to experience the Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam's busiest and wide dynamic city life. Tour the city is also a very good program, it is best to sit in Viet Nam popular pedal tricycle. There is also a yacht for passengers traveling on the River, especially in the evening more funny. Long night market, can be seen in the Mekong River in the noisy and crowded.In Sai Kung, mostly traditional recipes, Eurasian food meal.
In the South of the region, have authentic Chinese dishes. In the suburban counties and regions of the famous game food.There are year round Ho Chi Minh City, southern fruits specialties, each season has its special beauty of the seasons, from Ho Chi Minh City to walk some 20 km away from the car, visitors can reach the famous fruit gardens.
Viet Nam's most memorable is called the base it is called "sea Guilin" Halong Bay, the world famous, there are a number of films most scenes.
Halong Bay is a step in a scene, landscape makes people for dinner. There's like a dragon in the sea, some like lanneret spread,Like Golden probe, as Peacock ... If you want to visit the entire Halong Bay, at least a week. Visit Halong Bay of another great pleasure is to stop the boat landing, and events on the island. Single-hole is called the "Halong Bay's most beautiful caves", this cave is not deep, but various stalactite stalagmite, some as high as 20 metres. From single-hole look out, beautiful Halong Bay with scenery, Ocean Blue, distant islands more quiet, making for a long time did not want to leave. Hongji is one side of the Bay, 40 km long, with an area of 1500 square kilometers, there are thousands of Islands. It is a Bay in the North-East of Viet Nam, it is a natural deep-water port. Hongji small town in the mountains and the sea, in the night complements, shimmering shining lights. Hongji dawn is beautiful, worthy of the title of "Guilin at sea.