Ho Chi Minh is a delicious city.
Part 3.
Start here:
Whole cycle:
1. Preface to the story of how I went to Vietnam
2. Morning in the middle of the night or Hello Comrade Beijing!
Each of our days was very different from the others in terms of filling and feeling, so I gave them all names.
If the previous day was "shebush", then it was very "delicious".
December 5.2015. Vietnam. Day one, delicious.
Our plane was late.
Yeah, we weren't in a big hurry either. I really don't like pushing on the way out. Therefore, we sat quietly and waited while everyone who was very urgent stood in line to get out.
We came to the window where the visa is issued when there was no one there.
If you are going to Vietnam, then you must have an invitation with you. We ordered here http://www. cheapvietnamvisa. net/ costs $8 per person for a single entry visa for a month . The visa itself costs $45. The cost of other visas, you can see the link. We submit this invitation, together with the passport, through the window and wait five minutes for a visa. Eyewitnesses say that you can wait for an hour and a half. But we were lucky.
And then we sat for a long time and waited for our transfer. Since our flight was arriving at night, we booked a transfer from the hotel. And quite expensive - 20 dollars. But the transfer was not waiting for us.
We were met by a strange family with a sleeping baby right on the luggage cart. Besides us, they met other passengers. Probably their job is to meet tourists at the airport.
And here is the night, we sit and get nervous. And the girl embarrassedly babbles sorry, sorry, ten minutes . . And so for about an hour. Or about an hour and a half. It's hot, I want to sleep. And we are sitting. Also, there are no taxis. Silly night.
Although no, one taxi driver wanted to take us for $40)
It was already 5 am when we got to our hotel. Therefore, we quickly, without unpacking things, went to bed.
The air conditioner was very blowing on Ira's bed, so we turned it off.
I woke up at half past eleven from the terrible heat and stuffiness. The whole world around me was wet, hot and sticky. Terrible state(
Somehow I didn’t feel very well and planned to lie down, in extreme cases, go out to sit in the park near the hotel.
But then she followed her fellow travelers, who knew where to eat delicious Pho soup.
In Vietnam, Pho soup is the most important dish. Probably, like our borscht, but with even more people's love) The Vietnamese and those who come in large numbers eat it from early morning until late at night and mostly right on the streets.
And, like our borscht, it can be very different, but all exceptionally tasty.
We can't handle huge plates)
We took two plates for three)
Then we went looking for delicious Vietnamese coffee.
Coffee is just a delight! Also with condensed milk! Be careful - it's addictive!
Soup and coffee cheered me up so much that I gave up the idea of doing nothing, just relaxing, and we all went for a walk around Ho Chi Minh.
The city is very Vietnamese. Narrow houses hung with advertisements.
Very Asian wrapped in wires.
The city is very full of motorcycles. To cross the street, you just need to walk between these motorcycles, and they will go around. It's very scary at first, but then you get used to it.
Motorcycles are in a special position. They are even in houses)
But the very center is very civilized. This place reminded Chernivtsi)
And this reminded Kyiv)
And this is generally Lviv)
The Cathedral was inherited from the colonialists. I heard a lot of assurances that this is a copy of the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral. In total, there are three copies in the world - in Canada, Montreal, in France, Reims and in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City. In Ho Chi Minh City, this can be called a copy very conditionally) I haven’t been inside, but it doesn’t look like it from the outside.
The old post office is also the work of the colonialists.
It feels like we're in Europe.
Somewhere in England, for example)
But we're not in England. The country is a socialist and posters on the streets do not let you forget about it.
One uncle, on Phu Quoc, at the end of our trip, contemptuously told me that the political system in Vietnam is democracy) But he generally despised me, because I am a punisher Ukrainian and I am against the annexation of Crimea . They are explorers themselves. Learn history. The Crimea is ours. Donbasnash. But I tied everything up in one pile, as is often the case with quilted jackets.
Don't trust the uncles. Vietnam is a socialist republic.
But I digress from the food) The food in Vietnam is very, very tasty. Toward evening we climbed to the 23rd floor of the business center to taste the food with amazing views)
We met the sunset there. It was as if a fiery dragon had swept across the sky.
Views rapidly darkened)
And the dishes from such breathtaking beauty have become even tastier)
In general, we ate there, ate, drank, then ate again . . And we went to look for an authentic little cafe to finally eat)
We rolled it all up in lettuce leaves, dipped it in fish sauce, and ate it with our hands until it "stroke" behind the ears
When it got completely dark, the youth still hung out in some club, and Ira and I walked and wandered around the center ran to buy coconut oil and various teas, soaked in Asian smells and views. Pleasant music played, a lot of people walked with children and just couples or companies. And here we have already felt - Summer! ) How nice, all the same, when summer is around!
Teenagers sit right on the pavement and play guitars
It was a very pleasant, very tasty day. Fruit was also waiting for us at the hotel) Some of them I don't even know their names.
The next day we went to Dalat, don't switch! )
Whole cycle:
1. Preface to the story of how I went to Vietnam
2. Morning in the middle of the night or Hello Comrade Beijing!
3. Ho Chi Minh City is delicious.
4. Part 4. Ho Chi Minh City-Dalat.
5. Part 5. What would a day be like if it started in a madhouse?
6. Part 6. Da Nang. Marble mountains.
7. Part 7. The soulful city of Hoi An.
8. Part 8. Why did they destroy Michonne?
9. Part 9. By air, by sea, by land.
10. Part 10. Must see. Halong bay.
