Sorry, that this post is so late. The Internet in Laos down, so I did not get a chance to put up this post.
Vietnam was completely different than I expected, it looks so different in real life than in movies. Vietnam was beautiful, we had a great time, the only thing I can say about Vietnamese people, they are the most terrible drivers in the world.
These are some of the things we accomplished( like i said before, i can not write on everything):
We went to the Purple Pagoda, which is a temple in the middle of this island, it’s a cave with all these carvings in the roof and Buddha’s; but to get to the temple you had to go by a “swung” which is a wo
oden boat and then we had to hike up this huge hill to the top. We met this nice lady named “Ban” who helped us to get there. First we had to take a hour long taxi, to this small town to buy the tickets, where at least 10 people come and knock on the windows asking you to buy something, and then you get to the next town ( the picture on the left is off the bathrooms in this town, i only showed you the outside because the inside is not something you want to see), then get on the swungs and ride down this people river with all the mountains around. You arrive at this small pier and everywhere are these little shops and alot of them have roasted dogs hanging from the roofs ( if i lived in Hanoi my lunch would be my dog). We finally reached the top and it was beautiful. Pictures can say more than words so here the pictures are.
oden boat and then we had to hike up this huge hill to the top. We met this nice lady named “Ban” who helped us to get there. First we had to take a hour long taxi, to this small town to buy the tickets, where at least 10 people come and knock on the windows asking you to buy something, and then you get to the next town ( the picture on the left is off the bathrooms in this town, i only showed you the outside because the inside is not something you want to see), then get on the swungs and ride down this people river with all the mountains around. You arrive at this small pier and everywhere are these little shops and alot of them have roasted dogs hanging from the roofs ( if i lived in Hanoi my lunch would be my dog). We finally reached the top and it was beautiful. Pictures can say more than words so here the pictures are.
In Vietnam we also visited the Hanoi Hilton, where they held the US pilots (where John McCain was held), i think they tried to make it sound better than i think it really was because they were saying how they treated the soldiers nicely...but nothing is nice in war.
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We did alot of war related scavenges, we went to the top of Hanoi Tower when you look down you can see some of the shot down US planes from the war, we went to see B-52 plane which was a US plane which was shot down and landed in the river, and then as you see above we went to the Hanoi
prison.
Another scavenge I really liked was going to Ho Chi Mien's estate, Ho Chi was the King of Vietnam until he died in 1979. He is being preserved in a mausoleum and he looks perfect, probably a few years younger than he did when he died. At this mausoleum you had to go through all these procedures and if you go to my mum blog you can read them all, and everywhere had all these 4-5 year old school children.
They thought my shorts were to short, so i had to put on Mr. Rainey's shorts and it was freezing and all i had was my pink and purple rain jacket, so don't laugh at me and my basketball shorts. The guy next to me is Travis, yes, we all know he is tall, no reason to comment on it. He is a really nice guy, always tries to convince me to eat disgusting things like water buffalo, but he always loses the battle because I'm not eating that.Unfortunately, Travis and April are leaving in 3 days :(. May I also say everyone in this competition are really nice and I love hanging out with them.
The last thing im going to write about is the fact that Uncle Bill wanted us to eat "tit ran" which in english means snake. So we drove out to O Sin which is the restaurant which we had to eat it at, and the first thing you see is someones house, you walk through their bedroom and back yard, and they have the snakes in bags on the floor of their house...i was eating it until i saw all the snakes in jars. I just couldnt bring myself to do it. So i made mum do it.
