VIETNAM

Vietnam had it’s ups and downs. Tom was really out of the box for this leg of the trip, which initially I thought was weird because we had both been to Vietnam together several years earlier. After several discussions about this we came to the conclusion that the problem was that when we had travelled in the past we hit spots like HCMC and Mui Ne which are more geared towards tourists and caommunicating in English is not so much of a problem. For example menus are written in both Vietnamese and English. Also, because I had spent a year teaching in Quang Nai, Vietnam, where basically very, very little English is spoken so this aspect of the trip was not new to me. In retrospect I also realized that I really didn’t have much to worry about in Quang Ngai because everything was pretty well taken care of for me/us the teachers. Our employer spoke English, our meals were prepared for us. So, I suppose this leg of our journey was a real learning experience for both of us and for Tom a real big learning curve.

In this section of the blog there won’t be as many pictures and dialogue as per the previous sections, especially when we were in Quang Ngai as I have a separate blog under the title of “The year long journey” which outlines my one year living experience in Quang Ngai Vietnam. This blog is also on Traveller’spoint.

We didn’t see all we thought we would, we back tracked back and forth a couple of times and had some really great moments meeting and introducing Tom to my former employer Mrs Thao and one of my student’s (Minh) family. No word of a lie we were wined and dined and treated like royalty. We also had a fantastic time in Hoi An and spent about 6 days there. This is what our itinerary ended up looking like:

Da Nang
Quang Ngai
Hoi An
Da Nang
Bangkok

So, Let the journey begin!