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Impressions about the rest in Vietnam.
Several days have passed since the trip, a lot of impressions, emotions are mostly positive, but there is always a fly in the ointment in any barrel of honey. Such a single spoon was obtaining a visa at Ho Chi Minh Airport. To say it was bad is an understatement. After a ten-hour flight, we sat at the airport for more than 4 hours, without water, because at night everything was closed, it was hot, there was nowhere to sit, people lay down on the floor (it’s good that it’s hot! ). The procedure was not regulated, an excited and irritable queue of compatriots and neighbors-Belarusians was created. The Russians passed without a visa. First, everyone received questionnaires (after submitting invitations for a visa and checking passports and having photos), then they handed them in along with all the documents and photos, then they listened painfully when they called your last name (in broken English-Vietnamese) and handed over a ready-made passport with a pasted visa . This is the end of all the tar... !
At the exit to the city we were met by a smiling guy named Chung ("Focus Asia") - pleasant and friendly. We were taken by a good minibus (by the way, all public transport in Vietnam is good) to the Palace Hotel in the very center of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Despite the deep night, dinner was prepared and brought to the room. Saigon is an interesting city. At 2 am, the streets are full of people, there are a lot of colorful illuminations, and what strikes you right away: thousands of people on motorbikes. Moreover, everyone drives according to their own rules, the traffic is chaotic and unpredictable (or maybe it just seems so to us), while we did not see a single accident, everyone is extremely polite (but pedestrians are not allowed to pass even at the crossing). The air in the city is polluted, so almost everyone travels in cloth masks. All have helmets on their heads.
We saw sports grounds where teenagers played volleyball at the height of the night, and elderly people did gymnastics in parks. We don't see that! The population of Saigon is 9 million people. As for cleanliness: the central streets and parks are “licked out”, and the periphery and especially the places of trade (markets) are very dirty (dirtier than ours). Despite the general observable poverty and simplicity in clothes, in Vietnam there are chic taxi cars: new, bright, clean, drivers are all in white shirts and ties. Yes, and scooters (motobikes) - bright and very different.
We went on a sightseeing tour of the city and the Saigon River. The river is very dirty, next to the floating islands of blooming water lilies or lotuses, a lot of garbage floats. With the disposal of garbage, they probably have even more problems than we do.
Many high-rise buildings and transport interchanges are being built in the city: multi-tiered bridges and roads. By the way, almost all the beautiful buildings were built by the French in the 20th century, when Viet Nam was a French colony. Particularly impressive are the building of the city's main post office (very beautiful! ) and a reduced copy of the Notre-Dame-de-Paris Cathedral (Notre-Dame-de-Saigon), as well as the city hall building. In general, there are a lot of Catholics in Vietnam and, accordingly, Catholic churches. During our stay there, all the temples were decorated after the past Christmas.
I really liked the excursion to the village of Mit-ho on the banks of the Mekong with a stop at the snake nursery. We sailed in small boats through the canals among the thickets of water coconut, ate exotic fruits and drank coconut milk. We dined at a restaurant where they cook snakes and crocodiles. I liked the crocodile meat very much, for some reason they didn’t get enough snake meat. In general, I really liked Vietnamese cuisine: there were no problems with digestion and it was very tasty. The abundance of seafood, their minimum cooking time, the abundance of fruits (even more than vegetables), a popular attraction - Pho soup, rice noodles and rice pancakes with various fillings and all this with various delicious sauces and an almost complete absence of bread in the diet, which at first it was annoying, but then they got used to it and felt the charm. By the way, maybe because of this, in Vietnam you almost never meet fat people.
I heard that Vietnam has almost the highest population density, and so it is felt at every step. The road from Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet is more than 200 km, but this is a continuous settlement, where houses alternate with shops and cafes and Catholic churches. Occasionally, this sequence is interrupted by rice paddies, on which storks and herons roam. The average speed among this variety is 40-50 km, so the travel time is more than 5 hours, but this is also a kind of excursion, so it does not tire. At the entrance to the resort there are plantations of pitahaya (dragon heart), very exotic and beautiful, and at night they are also illuminated, the sight is magnificent!
Phan Thiet is a resort city with 200 thousand inhabitants, interesting and original. Beach hotels are located in the village of Mui Ne: one street, on which the sea and hotels are on one side, and shops and restaurants on the other.
Our hotel "Terracotta" turned out to be one of the best on the coast in terms of location, beauty and landscaping. This is exactly the case when the reality turned out to be even better than in the photo on the Internet. The territory is small, but very green, it is clear that a good landscape designer has worked: everywhere under the coconut palms on a green (like a carpet) lawn, various clay figurines of animals, people, fairy-tale characters are stuck. Paths of stone slabs meander between beautiful bungalow houses, banana trees, palm trees, and many different exotics grow, the names of which I don’t even know. Lots of flowers and flowering bushes! Bungalow
small, the area is less than declared by almost half. Consists of one room and a bathroom (with access to the courtyard). One big one inside
a bed and a small folding bed (a folding bed - upset, after all -4 *).
They cleaned daily, bedding and towels were also changed daily, every
every day they put bottled water, coffee and ginger tea in bags, and
every three days - a dish with fruit. After cleaning, the girls lit an aroma lamp with essential oils and the room smelled very cool!
The pool at the hotel is small, the water is chlorinated, not sea, ordinary, but cleaned regularly, the surrounding area is very clean, no complaints.
The only thing we didn't like (as non-smokers) is that they smoke everywhere: both near the pool and in the restaurant.
Restaurant in the hotel - in the open air (or rather without walls). Nearby is a pond with a waterfall and blooming lotuses, in which goldfish swim. Breakfasts are varied, every day something new, although once we suspected that we had served yesterday's weathered cut of ham and fruit. A must on the menu is Pho soup (I liked it), scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs with fillings and a variety of fruits: papaya, watermelons, mangosteen, pitahaya, pineapples, rambutan, passion fruit, strawberries, mangoes.
Twice a week, evenings of Filipino music are held in the restaurant (entrance - 300 thousand dongs = $ 15). Russian-speaking Leonid invites you to the evening. Serve grilled seafood, crocodile, ostrich, eel (buffet). They cook in front of you and on the grill and on an open fire in a wok pan (an impressive sight! ). Everything is laid out on banana leaves - and a lot of sauces to boot! We have $ 15 seafood (shellfish, shrimp, squid, snails, fish) is not full. The waiters are very kind and smiling, so we went to the restaurant with pleasure, and despite the fact that the hotel only had breakfast, we had enough until the evening, we didn’t go hungry.
In general, the problems - where to have dinner was not (no one ate dinner at the hotel restaurant). In the village of Mui Ne - there are restaurants at every step. The truth is very different both in cleanliness and in quality of service. Praised by our hotel guide Svetlana (not a very nice girl), we didn’t like the SNOW restaurant at all: there are a lot of show-offs, you can’t get waiters, prices are higher than anywhere else, and the food is tasteless, in general, we don’t recommend it. But I liked Bao Tran, Shale, Good morning Vietnam! pizzeria (with an Italian manager) - clean, tasty, fast, inexpensive. I liked the local white wine "Dalat"! And, of course, coffee!
Coffee in Vietnam - with a slight aroma of chocolate (at least what you tried) and a slightly sweet taste. Amazing!
Now a little about the sea and the beach. The South China Sea in the Phan Thiet area is very reminiscent of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov ten years ago: gray-green water, warm, gentle entrance, the water is not very transparent, but much saltier. Quiet (to calm) the sea has never been, in the morning it is quieter, and
By lunchtime, it was in full swing. It was good to swim only in the first half of the day, and from lunch the waves rose and the sea was filled with kite surfers (boards + parachute), it became simply dangerous to enter
water. In the early morning, many fishing boats go out to sea. Mui Ne is a fishing village. The beach is huge, with a wide strip of surf, the sand is yellow, fine, silky to the touch. The beach was regularly cleaned, but the sea constantly threw out all sorts of garbage (although this is not surprising in Vietnam). They concluded: for the development of the resort, they just need to solve the problem of garbage (although in India, they say, it is even dirtier and they go there anyway) at the state level.
What else was stressful? There were a lot of small children in the hotel (even babies), mostly from Russia, with all the ensuing consequences: screaming, crying, etc.
On an excursion to Mount Taku and hot springs, they went from the 1001 Nights street travel agency. At first they doubted (that they did not order at the hotel), but it turned out to be in vain. We were picked up by a comfortable bus from Russian
guide Boris, spent the day interesting and informative: boiled eggs in hot underground springs, swam in pools with mineral
hot water and smeared with therapeutic mud, fished crocodiles on the farm, climbed the cable car to Mount Taku to the lying 46-meter
Mu Buddha. Then we were fed a delicious lunch, brought to the fruit market and returned to the hotel. We did not regret that we went, besides -
half the price of a hotel for a similar tour.
And finally, I’ll say: our “Aerosvit” overshadowed the rest. got nervous
strong, but as it turned out in vain: we flew out on time, fed our fill and even gave wine and champagne, and at the end of the flight they also distributed a bottle of mineral water. Special thanks to the crew and commander for a pleasant 10 hours
flight and contemplation of Elbrus. Probably it was the "swan song" "Aero-
retinue".
In general, the vacation was a success and as our 13-year-old daughter said (sheeping at the same time): - “I really want to go back there again”!
So, see you soon, Vietnam!! !
Several days have passed since the trip, a lot of impressions, emotions are mostly positive, but there is always a fly in the ointment in any barrel of honey. Such a single spoon was obtaining a visa at Ho Chi Minh Airport. To say it was bad is an understatement. After a ten-hour flight, we sat at the airport for more than 4 hours, without water, because at night everything was closed, it was hot, there was nowhere to sit, people lay down on the floor (it’s good that it’s hot! ). The procedure was not regulated, an excited and irritable queue of compatriots and neighbors-Belarusians was created. The Russians passed without a visa. First, everyone received questionnaires (after submitting invitations for a visa and checking passports and having photos), then they handed them in along with all the documents and photos, then they listened painfully when they called your last name (in broken English-Vietnamese) and handed over a ready-made passport with a pasted visa . This is the end of all the tar... !
At the exit to the city we were met by a smiling guy named Chung ("Focus Asia") - pleasant and friendly. We were taken by a good minibus (by the way, all public transport in Vietnam is good) to the Palace Hotel in the very center of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Despite the deep night, dinner was prepared and brought to the room. Saigon is an interesting city. At 2 am, the streets are full of people, there are a lot of colorful illuminations, and what strikes you right away: thousands of people on motorbikes. Moreover, everyone drives according to their own rules, the traffic is chaotic and unpredictable (or maybe it just seems so to us), while we did not see a single accident, everyone is extremely polite (but pedestrians are not allowed to pass even at the crossing). The air in the city is polluted, so almost everyone travels in cloth masks. All have helmets on their heads.
We saw sports grounds where teenagers played volleyball at the height of the night, and elderly people did gymnastics in parks. We don't see that! The population of Saigon is 9 million people. As for cleanliness: the central streets and parks are “licked out”, and the periphery and especially the places of trade (markets) are very dirty (dirtier than ours). Despite the general observable poverty and simplicity in clothes, in Vietnam there are chic taxi cars: new, bright, clean, drivers are all in white shirts and ties. Yes, and scooters (motobikes) - bright and very different.
We went on a sightseeing tour of the city and the Saigon River. The river is very dirty, next to the floating islands of blooming water lilies or lotuses, a lot of garbage floats. With the disposal of garbage, they probably have even more problems than we do.
Many high-rise buildings and transport interchanges are being built in the city: multi-tiered bridges and roads. By the way, almost all the beautiful buildings were built by the French in the 20th century, when Viet Nam was a French colony. Particularly impressive are the building of the city's main post office (very beautiful! ) and a reduced copy of the Notre-Dame-de-Paris Cathedral (Notre-Dame-de-Saigon), as well as the city hall building. In general, there are a lot of Catholics in Vietnam and, accordingly, Catholic churches. During our stay there, all the temples were decorated after the past Christmas.
I really liked the excursion to the village of Mit-ho on the banks of the Mekong with a stop at the snake nursery. We sailed in small boats through the canals among the thickets of water coconut, ate exotic fruits and drank coconut milk. We dined at a restaurant where they cook snakes and crocodiles. I liked the crocodile meat very much, for some reason they didn’t get enough snake meat. In general, I really liked Vietnamese cuisine: there were no problems with digestion and it was very tasty. The abundance of seafood, their minimum cooking time, the abundance of fruits (even more than vegetables), a popular attraction - Pho soup, rice noodles and rice pancakes with various fillings and all this with various delicious sauces and an almost complete absence of bread in the diet, which at first it was annoying, but then they got used to it and felt the charm. By the way, maybe because of this, in Vietnam you almost never meet fat people.
I heard that Vietnam has almost the highest population density, and so it is felt at every step. The road from Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet is more than 200 km, but this is a continuous settlement, where houses alternate with shops and cafes and Catholic churches. Occasionally, this sequence is interrupted by rice paddies, on which storks and herons roam. The average speed among this variety is 40-50 km, so the travel time is more than 5 hours, but this is also a kind of excursion, so it does not tire. At the entrance to the resort there are plantations of pitahaya (dragon heart), very exotic and beautiful, and at night they are also illuminated, the sight is magnificent!
Phan Thiet is a resort city with 200 thousand inhabitants, interesting and original. Beach hotels are located in the village of Mui Ne: one street, on which the sea and hotels are on one side, and shops and restaurants on the other.
Our hotel "Terracotta" turned out to be one of the best on the coast in terms of location, beauty and landscaping. This is exactly the case when the reality turned out to be even better than in the photo on the Internet. The territory is small, but very green, it is clear that a good landscape designer has worked: everywhere under the coconut palms on a green (like a carpet) lawn, various clay figurines of animals, people, fairy-tale characters are stuck. Paths of stone slabs meander between beautiful bungalow houses, banana trees, palm trees, and many different exotics grow, the names of which I don’t even know. Lots of flowers and flowering bushes! Bungalow
small, the area is less than declared by almost half. Consists of one room and a bathroom (with access to the courtyard). One big one inside
a bed and a small folding bed (a folding bed - upset, after all -4 *).
They cleaned daily, bedding and towels were also changed daily, every
every day they put bottled water, coffee and ginger tea in bags, and
every three days - a dish with fruit. After cleaning, the girls lit an aroma lamp with essential oils and the room smelled very cool!
The pool at the hotel is small, the water is chlorinated, not sea, ordinary, but cleaned regularly, the surrounding area is very clean, no complaints.
The only thing we didn't like (as non-smokers) is that they smoke everywhere: both near the pool and in the restaurant.
Restaurant in the hotel - in the open air (or rather without walls). Nearby is a pond with a waterfall and blooming lotuses, in which goldfish swim. Breakfasts are varied, every day something new, although once we suspected that we had served yesterday's weathered cut of ham and fruit. A must on the menu is Pho soup (I liked it), scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs with fillings and a variety of fruits: papaya, watermelons, mangosteen, pitahaya, pineapples, rambutan, passion fruit, strawberries, mangoes.
Twice a week, evenings of Filipino music are held in the restaurant (entrance - 300 thousand dongs = $ 15). Russian-speaking Leonid invites you to the evening. Serve grilled seafood, crocodile, ostrich, eel (buffet). They cook in front of you and on the grill and on an open fire in a wok pan (an impressive sight! ). Everything is laid out on banana leaves - and a lot of sauces to boot! We have $ 15 seafood (shellfish, shrimp, squid, snails, fish) is not full. The waiters are very kind and smiling, so we went to the restaurant with pleasure, and despite the fact that the hotel only had breakfast, we had enough until the evening, we didn’t go hungry.
In general, the problems - where to have dinner was not (no one ate dinner at the hotel restaurant). In the village of Mui Ne - there are restaurants at every step. The truth is very different both in cleanliness and in quality of service. Praised by our hotel guide Svetlana (not a very nice girl), we didn’t like the SNOW restaurant at all: there are a lot of show-offs, you can’t get waiters, prices are higher than anywhere else, and the food is tasteless, in general, we don’t recommend it. But I liked Bao Tran, Shale, Good morning Vietnam! pizzeria (with an Italian manager) - clean, tasty, fast, inexpensive. I liked the local white wine "Dalat"! And, of course, coffee!
Coffee in Vietnam - with a slight aroma of chocolate (at least what you tried) and a slightly sweet taste. Amazing!
Now a little about the sea and the beach. The South China Sea in the Phan Thiet area is very reminiscent of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov ten years ago: gray-green water, warm, gentle entrance, the water is not very transparent, but much saltier. Quiet (to calm) the sea has never been, in the morning it is quieter, and
By lunchtime, it was in full swing. It was good to swim only in the first half of the day, and from lunch the waves rose and the sea was filled with kite surfers (boards + parachute), it became simply dangerous to enter
water. In the early morning, many fishing boats go out to sea. Mui Ne is a fishing village. The beach is huge, with a wide strip of surf, the sand is yellow, fine, silky to the touch. The beach was regularly cleaned, but the sea constantly threw out all sorts of garbage (although this is not surprising in Vietnam). They concluded: for the development of the resort, they just need to solve the problem of garbage (although in India, they say, it is even dirtier and they go there anyway) at the state level.
What else was stressful? There were a lot of small children in the hotel (even babies), mostly from Russia, with all the ensuing consequences: screaming, crying, etc.
On an excursion to Mount Taku and hot springs, they went from the 1001 Nights street travel agency. At first they doubted (that they did not order at the hotel), but it turned out to be in vain. We were picked up by a comfortable bus from Russian
guide Boris, spent the day interesting and informative: boiled eggs in hot underground springs, swam in pools with mineral
hot water and smeared with therapeutic mud, fished crocodiles on the farm, climbed the cable car to Mount Taku to the lying 46-meter
Mu Buddha. Then we were fed a delicious lunch, brought to the fruit market and returned to the hotel. We did not regret that we went, besides -
half the price of a hotel for a similar tour.
And finally, I’ll say: our “Aerosvit” overshadowed the rest. got nervous
strong, but as it turned out in vain: we flew out on time, fed our fill and even gave wine and champagne, and at the end of the flight they also distributed a bottle of mineral water. Special thanks to the crew and commander for a pleasant 10 hours
flight and contemplation of Elbrus. Probably it was the "swan song" "Aero-
retinue".
In general, the vacation was a success and as our 13-year-old daughter said (sheeping at the same time): - “I really want to go back there again”!
So, see you soon, Vietnam!! !
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