Back to our
Vietnam trips. The day before yesterday we brought the boys in
Saigon airport, put them in a car and distances them out to the coast of
Mui Ne,
where we are in the last few days have not made other than to sunbathe, swim in
the surf waves and drinking good drinks. The boys arouses proper attention, they
are about twice as high as an ordinary Vietnamese, and especially Mads, who has
put her hair up in Samurai hairstyle sheep many glances.
Mui Ne is 3-4 hours driving from Saigon and the journey there is most of the
time the main road between Saigon and
Hanoi. That it is the country's main
highway is not reflected in neither its size nor quality. Generally, there are
few cars in Viet Nam, most traveling on scooter or motorcycle. The cars are
typically trucks, buses or larger vehicles with CHAUFFEUR. All tests come
forward and all overtakes everyone, there are several places recorded a solid
line, but it has only symbolic value. It is no obstacle to overtake one that
overtakes and then simultaneously with flashing lights and honking the horn to
point out 'that here I come'. Well the boys slept most of the time, there were
several bad accidents along the way.
As fate would have it, we arrived at Mui Ne in monsoon rain, more rain than we
ever having experienced here. And now the boys otherwise really down and
experience the good weather...Thank God it cleared up the next day.
Riding elephant in Lak lake
Ah, but I have shown just taken a giant leap in history. Last time we were on
the blog was just before we were going with Easy Riders Dalat, to
Dak Lak, on
the motorcycle. We knew that we had agreed to adventure, but that it should be
so different we had not dreamed of. At 9 am we stood ready out on the main road
with our luggage, very excited on whether there would emerge no Bikers up. No
need to panic, they came with freshly washed motorcycles and large plastic poser
and laces to tie our luggage to the back of the bikes so it seemed like back
support. Equipped with helmets, we drove out of town and into the mountains.
Travelling around for two days with two locally experienced guides who could
show us everything there was to see who could find the most incredible little
coffee / tea places along the way and had tremendous understanding of how when
our bottoms just needed to acute pause. At night we slept at
Lak lake, which
was the original idea that we should have slept in a longhouse, with minority
people, but I think they thought we needed to stay overnight, so they
recommended us a real bed in a kind of resort. In the longhouse we would have to
live with cows, pigs, chickens, ducks and elephants. The elephant then tried the
next day it took us through the seas.
After a day's journey through the mountains we ended up in
Dalat, which is known
as the city of eternal spring. Here is an average temp of 17 degrees. The city
is the largest producer of flowers and vegetables, and it is also those that
produce wine, Vang Dalat.
The next morning, Peter was out playing golf on a very beautiful track that say
the least, was lying in the middle of the city. Peter had had an adorable female
caddy, and I was with a spectator and photographer. In the afternoon we headed
to Saigon for a walk on 6-7 hours in a good car.
Tomorrow we go to Saigon again and visit on the way
Cu Chi tunnels, where the
boys hope for that they can shoot with an AK-47...!
By Peter-og-Bettina