TET and beyond
well being stuck we decided to make the most of it, and rented a motocycle, Paulina being the more experienced..pretty much everything was the driver and within a short time we were hooning around the countryside checking out the sites, and dodging stray livestock on the road (water buffalo anyone?)
The guys at the hotel explained in Vietnam that the man never rides on the back of the motor cycle, so bascially we had to switch sexes.... I wasn't too fazed by the whole thing, hell i was getting driven around.
The preparations for TET were well and truly underway, and people were hanging up their chinese new years equivalent of an xmas tree, cleaning up and getting hair cuts.
We also took this opportunity to go on a pharmacy run, with a couple of words written in Vietnamese thanks to our friendly hotel guy.
We discovered that in Nam, you don't actually have to know about drugs to work in a pharmacy and we were given a range of strange and mysterious pills to try...YAY!
our bus to Hué left at 8pm so the afternoon/ evening was spent sitting around.
when the bus arrived i was more then a little relieved to discover a) it was empty abd b) the seats reclined, and i proceeded to dose myself up on half a xanax, to take the edge off the ride.
A few hours later i was awoken, we had stopped on the edge of a freeway, it was 11:45 and the bus driver had called a 30 minute break for TET.
dazed, confused and foggy I got off the bus, and watched the fire works, not too impressive but the vietnamese seemed excited, we wished each other happy new year (Chuc mung nam moi), and the drivers invited us to have a beer and some of the new years speciality which was goat, cooked in some sort of leaf.
I'm prety easy when it comes to food but frankly it was pretty damn gross, shortly after the entire highway which had been deserted, came alive with the sound of motobikes, lots and lots of them as people went to new years parties etc.
so we arrived in Hué at 5:55 am, found a hotel, some old lady banged on the door, woke them up we were showed a room and in bed by 6:10...
Hué was ok, big fobidden city, alot like the one in Japan only crustier, and most of it had been destroyed anf rebuilt less then a hundred years ago, the entire town was cloudy and not so much fun so we booked a ticked for Saigon for the next day. Also bumped into this Aussie couple from the boat, and had a few drinks which was nice.
in Saigon now, happy new years everbody.
The guys at the hotel explained in Vietnam that the man never rides on the back of the motor cycle, so bascially we had to switch sexes.... I wasn't too fazed by the whole thing, hell i was getting driven around.
The preparations for TET were well and truly underway, and people were hanging up their chinese new years equivalent of an xmas tree, cleaning up and getting hair cuts.
We also took this opportunity to go on a pharmacy run, with a couple of words written in Vietnamese thanks to our friendly hotel guy.
We discovered that in Nam, you don't actually have to know about drugs to work in a pharmacy and we were given a range of strange and mysterious pills to try...YAY!
our bus to Hué left at 8pm so the afternoon/ evening was spent sitting around.
when the bus arrived i was more then a little relieved to discover a) it was empty abd b) the seats reclined, and i proceeded to dose myself up on half a xanax, to take the edge off the ride.
A few hours later i was awoken, we had stopped on the edge of a freeway, it was 11:45 and the bus driver had called a 30 minute break for TET.
dazed, confused and foggy I got off the bus, and watched the fire works, not too impressive but the vietnamese seemed excited, we wished each other happy new year (Chuc mung nam moi), and the drivers invited us to have a beer and some of the new years speciality which was goat, cooked in some sort of leaf.
I'm prety easy when it comes to food but frankly it was pretty damn gross, shortly after the entire highway which had been deserted, came alive with the sound of motobikes, lots and lots of them as people went to new years parties etc.
so we arrived in Hué at 5:55 am, found a hotel, some old lady banged on the door, woke them up we were showed a room and in bed by 6:10...
Hué was ok, big fobidden city, alot like the one in Japan only crustier, and most of it had been destroyed anf rebuilt less then a hundred years ago, the entire town was cloudy and not so much fun so we booked a ticked for Saigon for the next day. Also bumped into this Aussie couple from the boat, and had a few drinks which was nice.
in Saigon now, happy new years everbody.
1 Comments:
yay, Happy New Year!
plasmo
xx
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