Depsite the intestinal issues, Vientnam to me had such delicious food. So frangrant and light. My body (initially at least) was responding to their style, likely from the balanced portions of noodles/rice, protein, and veggies. Somehow, vegetables are hard to come by in a meal unless explicitly searched for and/or ordered in places like Thailand, Taiwan, and even Japan. In Vietnam, it's automatically part of the meal.
We also saw some cultural places. Most notable being the large statue of the lady buddha. Awe-inspiring. The history on her is interesting too.
Hoi An, although a tourist town now, was still pleasant to walk through because of it's old houses and character. And we found the top food joints there.
Finally, we had a chance to visit the Women's Cultural Museum in Hanoi. It was amazing to learn how much the women of Vietnam contributed to their country. And how devastating, chaotic, and unfathomable the war in Vietnam was. I learned a lot. It was needed.
In sum, I very much enjoyed our few cultural excursions.
After that, our bodies started to give out. We tried to keep sight-seeing and eating, but it ended up being a no-go. Oh well. I am happy with what we did get to enjoy.
The days we did enjoy, we had to grab a taxi to get around as walking is very difficult. Thankfully there's an app for taxis, which was reliable and safe. Vientam's traffic is unlike anything I've experienced so far. Hardly any stop lights, people driving left, right, centre, diagonal, u-turns etc. without signal lights. They honk at each other as a signal to say they're there or about to do something (usually no indication of what that something will be). It makes most places unwalkable. And if you do get the hang of walking around, like we eventually did, I feel we must focus on the road instead of the sights and smells around the neighborhood. A different experience.
It was a good experience all-in-all. Vietnam is changing fast too it seems, so look out for it in a few more years I think.
Da Nang area:
We also saw some cultural places. Most notable being the large statue of the lady buddha. Awe-inspiring. The history on her is interesting too.
Hoi An, although a tourist town now, was still pleasant to walk through because of it's old houses and character. And we found the top food joints there.
Finally, we had a chance to visit the Women's Cultural Museum in Hanoi. It was amazing to learn how much the women of Vietnam contributed to their country. And how devastating, chaotic, and unfathomable the war in Vietnam was. I learned a lot. It was needed.
In sum, I very much enjoyed our few cultural excursions.
After that, our bodies started to give out. We tried to keep sight-seeing and eating, but it ended up being a no-go. Oh well. I am happy with what we did get to enjoy.
The days we did enjoy, we had to grab a taxi to get around as walking is very difficult. Thankfully there's an app for taxis, which was reliable and safe. Vientam's traffic is unlike anything I've experienced so far. Hardly any stop lights, people driving left, right, centre, diagonal, u-turns etc. without signal lights. They honk at each other as a signal to say they're there or about to do something (usually no indication of what that something will be). It makes most places unwalkable. And if you do get the hang of walking around, like we eventually did, I feel we must focus on the road instead of the sights and smells around the neighborhood. A different experience.
It was a good experience all-in-all. Vietnam is changing fast too it seems, so look out for it in a few more years I think.
Da Nang area:
View from our hotel in Da Nang
Delicious food!!!
Iced Vietnamese coffee and coconut coffee. I had egg coffee as well. All wonderful!
Mixed jelly coconut ice deliciousness. So good we had it twice!
The awe-inspiring Lady Buddha.
Hoi An day trip:
Historical town of Hoi An.
I don't even know what we had but it was amazingly delicious street food.
Hanoi
A very tiny snapshot from the Women's museum. Awesome. We spent 3hrs in there absorbing history!
We were so happy that we found this random street selling this congee style bowl when we weren't feeling too well. Lots of locals were having it. Unfortunately, we werentw very well by the time we got to Hanoi and so we couldn't eat much. Sadness.
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