Monday, October 17, 2005
Some unexpected expereinces we had in Vietnam.
It started during a motorcycle ride with some other Israeli guys that fell off their moto and got hurt in the middle of a mountians village road so we had to take care of them... then, on the night train back to Hanoi, I woke up with undescribable pain in the lower belli, where a kidney stone decided to go down the urine pipe (ouchhhhhhh!) Luckily there was an Amareican ER doctor traveling in the next coach, but he and Anat couldnt help much with the pains... After resting a day in Hanoi, I recovered and then... A Vietnamise guy was chucking next to us during lunch, so I Heimlich the poor guy till the piece of beef went out...
Important thing is that we are safe after surviving all those scary episodes and back on track.
Then went to Ninh Binh (carefully) riding motorcycles with Assi and Danya (freinds from Israel)along rice pedi fields where huge rocks are stepping out from, stopped to work in a pedi field with the vietnamise women to find out that a bowl of sticky rice is rather hard to produce. life here is pretty basic - locals work all day in rice and corn fields for their food, drinking and smoking in the afternoon. playing cards, pool or footbal in the evening or simply starring at TV. Intereting to see the internet crawling in. the youth is mainly chatting and playing quest games.
Then up north east to Babe, riding a local bus (aka "Chicken Bus") to arrive to a big lake surrended with moutains and rivers. the scenery is impressing, the village people are nice but some pepole that deal with tourists are rude, corrupted and badly going after your pocket, cheat, etc. seems that the rapid development aside to the remainings from the "American War" (this is how they call the Vietnam War) have done their effect.
Took a yacht trip to the famous Halong bay and Cat Bah island, which is a spectaclor site with 3000 small islands, each with a rocky mountian covered with green trees. sleeping on the upper deck inside a lagoon. kayak rowing and lots of swiming with the group of 15 Europeans and Aussies. saw a cave from the war that acted as an hospital and met a war veteran (that still thinks the war is on....)
To conclude, we had yet another scarry experience when another yacht engine stopped so it got tied to our yacht which has not a state of the art wheel to begin with, so we crashed into one of the rocky mountain...
...and that's when we realized its time to move to Laus.
Hanan
PS: thanks for your replies. no pictures uploaded yet (someone stole our camera connector, so be patient...)
It started during a motorcycle ride with some other Israeli guys that fell off their moto and got hurt in the middle of a mountians village road so we had to take care of them... then, on the night train back to Hanoi, I woke up with undescribable pain in the lower belli, where a kidney stone decided to go down the urine pipe (ouchhhhhhh!) Luckily there was an Amareican ER doctor traveling in the next coach, but he and Anat couldnt help much with the pains... After resting a day in Hanoi, I recovered and then... A Vietnamise guy was chucking next to us during lunch, so I Heimlich the poor guy till the piece of beef went out...
Important thing is that we are safe after surviving all those scary episodes and back on track.
Then went to Ninh Binh (carefully) riding motorcycles with Assi and Danya (freinds from Israel)along rice pedi fields where huge rocks are stepping out from, stopped to work in a pedi field with the vietnamise women to find out that a bowl of sticky rice is rather hard to produce. life here is pretty basic - locals work all day in rice and corn fields for their food, drinking and smoking in the afternoon. playing cards, pool or footbal in the evening or simply starring at TV. Intereting to see the internet crawling in. the youth is mainly chatting and playing quest games.
Then up north east to Babe, riding a local bus (aka "Chicken Bus") to arrive to a big lake surrended with moutains and rivers. the scenery is impressing, the village people are nice but some pepole that deal with tourists are rude, corrupted and badly going after your pocket, cheat, etc. seems that the rapid development aside to the remainings from the "American War" (this is how they call the Vietnam War) have done their effect.
Took a yacht trip to the famous Halong bay and Cat Bah island, which is a spectaclor site with 3000 small islands, each with a rocky mountian covered with green trees. sleeping on the upper deck inside a lagoon. kayak rowing and lots of swiming with the group of 15 Europeans and Aussies. saw a cave from the war that acted as an hospital and met a war veteran (that still thinks the war is on....)
To conclude, we had yet another scarry experience when another yacht engine stopped so it got tied to our yacht which has not a state of the art wheel to begin with, so we crashed into one of the rocky mountain...
...and that's when we realized its time to move to Laus.
Hanan
PS: thanks for your replies. no pictures uploaded yet (someone stole our camera connector, so be patient...)
