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Since the majority of tourists in Vietnam are Russians, the Vietnamese, respectively, have joined the primitive and almost childish Russian common rooms. One of them is “yum-yum”, which means “eat” in the broadest sense of the word. Even the Dutch and the Germans use the simple phrase “yum-yum” there, sincerely considering it to be a purely Vietnamese word. True, the local aborigines have more in stock: “come on” (with a playful intonation), “nope” (deliberately drawling expression of disagreement), “good”, “beautiful”, “neither you nor me” (the main argument when bargaining) etc. In general, the Vietnamese are comfortable, friendly, calm in a Buddhist way and, according to our stereotypes, are dumb. Therefore, if you are bargaining, do not try to explain that you want to take not one product at 20 thousand dong apiece (for example), but ten at once, but 15 thousand for each.
In the Vietnamese case, you literally need to take all the counted ten items in your hand, clearly express a desire to buy them in bulk and immediately, then show one of them, say the amount per unit, then say the total amount again. And then there will be at least some chance that your desire to get a wholesale discount will be adequately perceived.
But I'll start over. We are a company and we always travel with a concession of up to twenty people. Vietnam was a controversial destination, everyone hesitated and took risks. But, my God, how wrong we were!
Part one. Road
Since we are from Sumy, and we already (or still) don’t have an airport, it’s five hours to Boryspil by minibus, and another five hours to transit Dubai by Ukrainian airlines Mau. They fed, watered, somehow served - modestly, not satisfying, but thanks for that. A six-hour connection, and from Dubai it is already 6 hours by Emirates Airlines to Ho Chi Minh City.
Emirates charm - Boeing "777", blankets, pillows, video recorders under the "belly" and in the cockpit, screens in chairs, films (including in Russian), music, games. And also hot wipes for hands, two meals a day, metal cutlery (this is on board the plane! ), cold, hot and intoxicating drinks ...They took off easily, landed softly - baldness! In Ho Chi Minh City, a transfer for our group - this was taken care of back in Sumy with the help of the sending company of the Argo company, which is part of the Last Last minute Shops network - thank you! A Vietnamese woman with a transfer name Asya, who speaks decent Russian, happily embraced Ukrainian tourists who were stunned by the road and tried to entertain us somehow for another 5.5 hours. Thanks, Asya! On the way, they tried to look at something, but they got the strongest impression from the dragon fruit plantations, where each bush is illuminated by a powerful lamp (so that the crop is reusable).
And fuli to us - the rivers in Vietnam are powerful, and Soviet specialists built power plants. They also smeared chemical plants, a military base in Cam Ranh, and much more. Despite the stupid Vietnamese night, on the way we stopped at a cafe where we tried Pho soup for the first time. And this, I’ll tell you, is just a Vietnamese sabotage, because you get so hooked on Pho soup that a real breakdown begins in your homeland due to pho addiction. In the Bon Bien Resort hotel, successfully located exactly in the middle of the Mui Ne resort area near the city of Phan Thiet, it was not us who arrived, but zombies, therefore, settling, poorly understanding who had a better room and who did not. The next day reconciled, showing that the suites are the same - at least on the second, even on the first floor. True, this next day did not come the next day, but the day after tomorrow ...
We start to rest
Having barely unloaded our suitcases, we immediately plunged into the pool to “unload the spine” (everything according to science - we have a medical company).
Naturally, “we took a sip for arrival”, and from morning until afternoon, our bodies, lifeless from lack of sleep, randomly scattered on beach chairs, were cheerfully filmed by more disciplined tourists on their cameras. The pool, by the way, is warm, heated around the clock around the perimeter, however, the jacuzzis are turned on with some kind of tricky button, and the light around the pool too - but you just need to peep how the Vietnamese from the staff does it and then it will go by itself. The charm of breakfast on the first day was not appreciated, but the breakfast itself is wonderful (more on that below). In addition, flip flops protected from the sun (up to cotton respirators and gloves) endlessly ply along the beach with a variety of fruits, their fellow countrymen with seafood, fellow countrymen with boiled tropical corn - awesomely tasty (you can bargain for 10.000 dong) and with pearls (about him too below). Immediately about the price equivalents.
Do not be afraid of scarecrows about confusion with money, flashing zeros before your eyes and constantly striving to deceive the Vietnamese. Vietnamese dongs are convenient, it is better to buy them in Mui Ne, the rate ranges from 20.800 to 21.000 dongs per dollar. Changers are everywhere. All Mui Ne or all Mui Ne (we inclined it somehow ruthlessly and to the word) are shops, restaurants, travel agencies and massage parlors in one bank. Vietnamese shopping is contagious and exhausting - every evening (except for the days of excursions, which are also discussed below), we rushed along Mui Ne and rowed until swelling in the legs: bamboo shirts, cotton and coconut suits, silk robes and sundresses, Adidas tracksuits, sneakers, ski sets and down jackets, magnets with Ho Chi Minh City, souvenir plates, crocodile bags and wallets, Vietnamese rice hats-pyramids "nona" ...Tip: in almost all Mui Ne shops, a colorful book "Guide to Mui Ne" in Russian is distributed free of charge.
Very nice edition and even for souvenirs quite worthy. Inside the phone numbers and addresses of stores, as well as coupons with discounts. By the way, for communication, buy a card in Mui Ne, activate it there with the help of the seller, replenish your account with him if you pronounce all the money. In a modest way, 7 dollars was enough for me for all 12 days.
Tours
One of the excursions was a gift for us from the sending company - Ho Chi Minh City on the last day before departure. The rest decided to take on the spot and did the right thing. There are many of us, so we always received a discount. Based on the reviews on the internet, we chose "Smile" - a travel agency and a restaurant of the same name are located about a hundred meters to the right of the hotel across the road.
The Russian-speaking manager Larisa would have received the highest score from us, if not for the last "chord" - when we decided to use the advertised right to the fourth free tour, while choosing the cheapest one, Larisa turned off the phone and did not go to work. Well done, - the company saved money, but we will not fail to write on the Internet that travel agencies, like restaurants, are dofiga in Mui Ne and their services are approximately the same. Well, we went by jeeps to the dunes and lotus lake - cool, to the fairy stream - just fun, to Nha Trang with the entertainment island Winpearl and Dalat - super-super-super, a crocodile farm and thermal baths with mud, waterfalls and elephant riding and ostriches - in the course of life.
About breakfast. And in general, about the hotel
Do you know what Vietnamese cuisine is? We didn't know either, but this is one of the best cuisines in the world. Without exaggeration.
In our restaurant: Pho soup, pancakes with bananas, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, sauces, rolls, chicken, dumplings, rolls, noodles, rice, salads, desserts, sausages, bacon, vegetables, fruits, juices, tea, coffee with milk, toasts etc. And outside - shark, ostrich, crocodile, barakudyatina - not so hard, I will continue without transformations. They ate scallops, piranha, venison, lobsters, shrimps, crabs, oysters, turtles, cobras, clams, mussels, eels, moray eels (it was still necessary to rewrite all of them). Everything was prepared in such a way that it was just wow. But I always wanted to return to the hotel, where the territory is chamber, like a home imperial theater, and ceramic piglets “live” on every lawn. Although everything was simple in the rooms - air conditioning, bed, balconies, furniture, refrigerator, mirror and the same gecko on the ceiling. When he walked from one corner to another, we died with laughter - his gait is vulgar.
You can get a hair dryer at the reception, ask for hot water there - they will bring it to your room. Tipping is not needed, and in general the staff is unobtrusively-inconspicuous. The hotel's restaurant overlooks the Pacific Ocean, or rather one of its bays, geographically referred to as the South China Sea, and in Vietnam as the East Sea. Waves, of course, but acceptable for swimming. The local entourage - kiters - a mixture of surfers with paratroopers and fishermen on boats-basins of an absolutely round shape. This type of water transport simply blew the minds of our homegrown aquadynamics specialists. According to Vietnamese statistics, one of the most common causes of death for tourists is the fall of a coconut on the head. In our hotel, mortality was reduced to zero, because constantly ripening coconuts were forcibly removed from palm trees.
buddha good god
We were convinced that the Buddha is a good God back in Sri Lanka, each time climbing the next mountain to the next pagoda as for the last time ...The Vietnamese Buddha turned out to be much kinder than the Sri Lankan one, and if the shrine was a little high, then either a cable car or highway. Buddha is predictable - he is either lying, or sitting, or in nirvana. That is to say, no one interferes with life. The Vietnamese behave in approximately the same way - no conventions with prohibitions prevent foreigners from relaxing. The funniest car we saw in Viet is a hearse with golden dragons, lanterns, flags and benches for the mourners. To the best of all worlds - fun and without sorrow, with faith in further rebirths.
Birthday Cobra
During our stay in Vietnam, we had two internal concession events. One of them, March 8, is just an excuse and nothing more.
But the second is the birthday of one of ours. And not just DR, but a half-century anniversary! In addition to a cake from the hotel, two bottles of Dalat wine from the host, the hero of the day received our gift - the ritual of killing a cobra and then eating it. I will not elaborate on the chilling topic, but the hero of the day still had to eat the beating heart of a barely killed cobra - the ritual does not tolerate deviations. Oh, damn it, at least once in my life and I have such a birthday with such an exotic! All in all, I still hope. Moreover, the DR, and everything that happened to us in Vietnam, was captured not only on cameras, iPads and other gadgets. One of our co-tourists, a charming doctor, generally combined her vacation with professional photography of our group and even training us under the program of the Vietnam Paralympic team in synchronized swimming in open and closed waters.
We are not small guys, and judging by the witnesses of the training, the spectacle was not for the faint of heart
But in Vietnam there will always be reasons for delight, to look at everything there - not to reconsider, to be surprised - not to be overwhelmed, so if it were not for the range of the direction, we would go there more than once. And so, the next, it seems, will be West Africa, such as Morocco-Mauritania, and about the results of her visit after arriving "from there. " Therefore, I finish and leave the phone for clarification. If I'm not busy, I'll be happy to answer all your clarifying questions. Happy trips to you, dear consumers of new experiences!
Elena
Since the majority of tourists in Vietnam are Russians, the Vietnamese, respectively, have joined the primitive and almost childish Russian common rooms. One of them is “yum-yum”, which means “eat” in the broadest sense of the word. Even the Dutch and the Germans use the simple phrase “yum-yum” there, sincerely considering it to be a purely Vietnamese word. True, the local aborigines have more in stock: “come on” (with a playful intonation), “nope” (deliberately drawling expression of disagreement), “good”, “beautiful”, “neither you nor me” (the main argument when bargaining) etc. In general, the Vietnamese are comfortable, friendly, calm in a Buddhist way and, according to our stereotypes, are dumb. Therefore, if you are bargaining, do not try to explain that you want to take not one product at 20 thousand dong apiece (for example), but ten at once, but 15 thousand for each.
In the Vietnamese case, you literally need to take all the counted ten items in your hand, clearly express a desire to buy them in bulk and immediately, then show one of them, say the amount per unit, then say the total amount again. And then there will be at least some chance that your desire to get a wholesale discount will be adequately perceived.
But I'll start over. We are a company and we always travel with a concession of up to twenty people. Vietnam was a controversial destination, everyone hesitated and took risks. But, my God, how wrong we were!
Part one. Road
Since we are from Sumy, and we already (or still) don’t have an airport, it’s five hours to Boryspil by minibus, and another five hours to transit Dubai by Ukrainian airlines Mau. They fed, watered, somehow served - modestly, not satisfying, but thanks for that. A six-hour connection, and from Dubai it is already 6 hours by Emirates Airlines to Ho Chi Minh City.
Emirates charm - Boeing "777", blankets, pillows, video recorders under the "belly" and in the cockpit, screens in chairs, films (including in Russian), music, games. And also hot wipes for hands, two meals a day, metal cutlery (this is on board the plane! ), cold, hot and intoxicating drinks ...They took off easily, landed softly - baldness! In Ho Chi Minh City, a transfer for our group - this was taken care of back in Sumy with the help of the sending company of the Argo company, which is part of the Last Last minute Shops network - thank you! A Vietnamese woman with a transfer name Asya, who speaks decent Russian, happily embraced Ukrainian tourists who were stunned by the road and tried to entertain us somehow for another 5.5 hours. Thanks, Asya! On the way, they tried to look at something, but they got the strongest impression from the dragon fruit plantations, where each bush is illuminated by a powerful lamp (so that the crop is reusable).
And fuli to us - the rivers in Vietnam are powerful, and Soviet specialists built power plants. They also smeared chemical plants, a military base in Cam Ranh, and much more. Despite the stupid Vietnamese night, on the way we stopped at a cafe where we tried Pho soup for the first time. And this, I’ll tell you, is just a Vietnamese sabotage, because you get so hooked on Pho soup that a real breakdown begins in your homeland due to pho addiction. In the Bon Bien Resort hotel, successfully located exactly in the middle of the Mui Ne resort area near the city of Phan Thiet, it was not us who arrived, but zombies, therefore, settling, poorly understanding who had a better room and who did not. The next day reconciled, showing that the suites are the same - at least on the second, even on the first floor. True, this next day did not come the next day, but the day after tomorrow ...
We start to rest
Having barely unloaded our suitcases, we immediately plunged into the pool to “unload the spine” (everything according to science - we have a medical company).
Naturally, “we took a sip for arrival”, and from morning until afternoon, our bodies, lifeless from lack of sleep, randomly scattered on beach chairs, were cheerfully filmed by more disciplined tourists on their cameras. The pool, by the way, is warm, heated around the clock around the perimeter, however, the jacuzzis are turned on with some kind of tricky button, and the light around the pool too - but you just need to peep how the Vietnamese from the staff does it and then it will go by itself. The charm of breakfast on the first day was not appreciated, but the breakfast itself is wonderful (more on that below). In addition, flip flops protected from the sun (up to cotton respirators and gloves) endlessly ply along the beach with a variety of fruits, their fellow countrymen with seafood, fellow countrymen with boiled tropical corn - awesomely tasty (you can bargain for 10.000 dong) and with pearls (about him too below). Immediately about the price equivalents.
Do not be afraid of scarecrows about confusion with money, flashing zeros before your eyes and constantly striving to deceive the Vietnamese. Vietnamese dongs are convenient, it is better to buy them in Mui Ne, the rate ranges from 20.800 to 21.000 dongs per dollar. Changers are everywhere. All Mui Ne or all Mui Ne (we inclined it somehow ruthlessly and to the word) are shops, restaurants, travel agencies and massage parlors in one bank. Vietnamese shopping is contagious and exhausting - every evening (except for the days of excursions, which are also discussed below), we rushed along Mui Ne and rowed until swelling in the legs: bamboo shirts, cotton and coconut suits, silk robes and sundresses, Adidas tracksuits, sneakers, ski sets and down jackets, magnets with Ho Chi Minh City, souvenir plates, crocodile bags and wallets, Vietnamese rice hats-pyramids "nona" ...Tip: in almost all Mui Ne shops, a colorful book "Guide to Mui Ne" in Russian is distributed free of charge.
Very nice edition and even for souvenirs quite worthy. Inside the phone numbers and addresses of stores, as well as coupons with discounts. By the way, for communication, buy a card in Mui Ne, activate it there with the help of the seller, replenish your account with him if you pronounce all the money. In a modest way, 7 dollars was enough for me for all 12 days.
Tours
One of the excursions was a gift for us from the sending company - Ho Chi Minh City on the last day before departure. The rest decided to take on the spot and did the right thing. There are many of us, so we always received a discount. Based on the reviews on the internet, we chose "Smile" - a travel agency and a restaurant of the same name are located about a hundred meters to the right of the hotel across the road.
The Russian-speaking manager Larisa would have received the highest score from us, if not for the last "chord" - when we decided to use the advertised right to the fourth free tour, while choosing the cheapest one, Larisa turned off the phone and did not go to work. Well done, - the company saved money, but we will not fail to write on the Internet that travel agencies, like restaurants, are dofiga in Mui Ne and their services are approximately the same. Well, we went by jeeps to the dunes and lotus lake - cool, to the fairy stream - just fun, to Nha Trang with the entertainment island Winpearl and Dalat - super-super-super, a crocodile farm and thermal baths with mud, waterfalls and elephant riding and ostriches - in the course of life.
About breakfast. And in general, about the hotel
Do you know what Vietnamese cuisine is? We didn't know either, but this is one of the best cuisines in the world. Without exaggeration.
In our restaurant: Pho soup, pancakes with bananas, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, sauces, rolls, chicken, dumplings, rolls, noodles, rice, salads, desserts, sausages, bacon, vegetables, fruits, juices, tea, coffee with milk, toasts etc. And outside - shark, ostrich, crocodile, barakudyatina - not so hard, I will continue without transformations. They ate scallops, piranha, venison, lobsters, shrimps, crabs, oysters, turtles, cobras, clams, mussels, eels, moray eels (it was still necessary to rewrite all of them). Everything was prepared in such a way that it was just wow. But I always wanted to return to the hotel, where the territory is chamber, like a home imperial theater, and ceramic piglets “live” on every lawn. Although everything was simple in the rooms - air conditioning, bed, balconies, furniture, refrigerator, mirror and the same gecko on the ceiling. When he walked from one corner to another, we died with laughter - his gait is vulgar.
You can get a hair dryer at the reception, ask for hot water there - they will bring it to your room. Tipping is not needed, and in general the staff is unobtrusively-inconspicuous. The hotel's restaurant overlooks the Pacific Ocean, or rather one of its bays, geographically referred to as the South China Sea, and in Vietnam as the East Sea. Waves, of course, but acceptable for swimming. The local entourage - kiters - a mixture of surfers with paratroopers and fishermen on boats-basins of an absolutely round shape. This type of water transport simply blew the minds of our homegrown aquadynamics specialists. According to Vietnamese statistics, one of the most common causes of death for tourists is the fall of a coconut on the head. In our hotel, mortality was reduced to zero, because constantly ripening coconuts were forcibly removed from palm trees.
buddha good god
We were convinced that the Buddha is a good God back in Sri Lanka, each time climbing the next mountain to the next pagoda as for the last time ...The Vietnamese Buddha turned out to be much kinder than the Sri Lankan one, and if the shrine was a little high, then either a cable car or highway. Buddha is predictable - he is either lying, or sitting, or in nirvana. That is to say, no one interferes with life. The Vietnamese behave in approximately the same way - no conventions with prohibitions prevent foreigners from relaxing. The funniest car we saw in Viet is a hearse with golden dragons, lanterns, flags and benches for the mourners. To the best of all worlds - fun and without sorrow, with faith in further rebirths.
Birthday Cobra
During our stay in Vietnam, we had two internal concession events. One of them, March 8, is just an excuse and nothing more.
But the second is the birthday of one of ours. And not just DR, but a half-century anniversary! In addition to a cake from the hotel, two bottles of Dalat wine from the host, the hero of the day received our gift - the ritual of killing a cobra and then eating it. I will not elaborate on the chilling topic, but the hero of the day still had to eat the beating heart of a barely killed cobra - the ritual does not tolerate deviations. Oh, damn it, at least once in my life and I have such a birthday with such an exotic! All in all, I still hope. Moreover, the DR, and everything that happened to us in Vietnam, was captured not only on cameras, iPads and other gadgets. One of our co-tourists, a charming doctor, generally combined her vacation with professional photography of our group and even training us under the program of the Vietnam Paralympic team in synchronized swimming in open and closed waters.
We are not small guys, and judging by the witnesses of the training, the spectacle was not for the faint of heart
But in Vietnam there will always be reasons for delight, to look at everything there - not to reconsider, to be surprised - not to be overwhelmed, so if it were not for the range of the direction, we would go there more than once. And so, the next, it seems, will be West Africa, such as Morocco-Mauritania, and about the results of her visit after arriving "from there. " Therefore, I finish and leave the phone for clarification. If I'm not busy, I'll be happy to answer all your clarifying questions. Happy trips to you, dear consumers of new experiences!
Elena
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