FuFu World Tour - Sai Gon & Can Tho
25th May - 11th June 2007 - Part One


Departed from one of the world`s best airports - KLIA.


My destination was Ho Chi Minh City, or locally known as Sai Gon.


Watching the flight attendants was the main entertainment on board.


The in-flight meal was not bad. Mango pudding was awesome.


Going to be landed on the largest city in Vietnam.

I was wondering where to go after Turkey. Lucy stated that she would be going back to Vietnam and travel to Thailand end of May on her blog. Suddenly, Vietnam popped up in my mind. So, i gathered all my Vietnamese friends, purchased the ticket, planned the itinerary and finally flew to Saigon.


Exchanged 10K Japanese Yen, i got 11,748,000 Vietnamese Dong.


Met up Andy at the arrival hall. We took taxi to the hotel.

My accommodation in Saigon was arranged by Andy. He mentioned that love hotel is cheap, spacious and most importantly clean. Everyday, the room will be cleaned, bedding sheet and blanket will be changed. Besides TV, air-con, fridge, safety box, this hotel provides every little thing from chewing gum to nail cutter to ciggarette to local brand OK condoms.


My room of a love hotel located in District One. US$14.


This noodle with grilled pork, nuts and fried spring roll was awesome.


Breakfast at Guan An Ngon.


This beef soup noodle was way too good.


Andy drove me around the city by his motorcycle.


Motorcycle is the primary mode of transport in Vietnam.


Motorcyclists not necessary to wear helmet in Vietnam.


Motorcyclists need to be careful of the other mode of transports.


Andy then took me to a bus station. I was heading to Cantho.

Lucy picked me up at the Cantho bus station with her relatives. Was then straightly brought to a countryside. My first time to see how people live along the river, which it play a significant role in rural life owing to the extensive network of rivers in Vietnam. The residents just like anywhere, wash anything at the river, body as well. Life is as simple as you would never think of in the countryside.


We were going to have dinner in this house.


The living room.


FuFu and Lucy`s uncle.

While the women were preparing the dinner, i walked around the house and chatted with Lucy. Heard we would have grilled rabbit meat for dinner. The people are poor but they never fail to host their guests. They would serve their guest well with what they have (like rabbit), called up all the friends to eat and drink together. This might be the opportunity for them to drink together and show off their guests to the others.


The hammock on top of a bed.


The master bedroom.


The kitchen and dining room.


Women still washing clothes at the river.


The grocery shop.


The auntie is 'cleaning' the snails.


The granny is preparing the dinner. Two big fishes.

So men showed up when the dishes served on the table. Surprisingly, men and women had their dinner separately. I had my dinner with group of women because i only spoke to Lucy (couldnt even speak Vietnamese). It was my first time to taste rabbit meat though, smooth and soft - great. After dinner i joined the men while drinking Tiger beer together. Lucy was the interpreter. One of the men said wanna bring me to have FUN in town, but Lucy rejected it. Poor FuFu.


The dinner.


Discotheque X.O CLUB.

We then back to town. After bathing, we went to a disco nearby our hotel with her cousins. Six persons and two motorcycles. Three persons on a motorcycle - my first time. Life is hard in Vietnam, so everyone is working hard to make money. But some of them spend part of their hard-earned money to destress (shake their heads and bodies) at discotheque. Anyway, the music playing at X.O was bad and we left at 1am.


This was the first time i entered a disco in shorts.


A duck soup noodle after clubbing, one word - AWESOME.

That day i only slept three hours. At around five in the morning, i got in a van with Lucy and heading to a temple at the border of Vietnam and Cambodia.


Ba Chua Xu Temple

To be continued...

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越南之旅 - 第一集 -

一提起越南漂浮在我腦海的就是牛腩麵
一股香濃又清淡的牛腩麵讓我回味無窮
剛好我的美國網友說她要回越南玩泰國
不浪費時閒我趕快計劃14天的越南之旅
聯絡我越南的朋友看他們是否得空陪我
土耳其回來的第三天后我就飛去越南了
越南最大城市名叫西貢就是我的目的地
一下機換了錢安迪就帶我座德士去酒店
這間酒店平靚正香口膠安全套香煙都有
放下了行李后我們就出去外走走吃晚餐
第二天早餐吃完后安迪載我游西貢車河
看到當地人日常生活文化交通建築物等
摩托車在越南是一個很重要的交通工具
可以說每一個成年人都想要擁有的東西
他們不把頭盔戴上只有帽子墨鏡和口罩
神奇的一輛摩托車既然可載三至五個人

游完西貢車河后我就一個人到芹苴市去
去見美國網友露絲跟她一起在鄉下探險
她的親戚們都很友善很照顧我這個外人
剛剛見完面就被帶到一個鄉村去吃晚餐
鄉下的環境很安靜很舒適生活無憂無慮
日子過的很簡樸是退休后養老的好地方
女的在家教子煮飯打掃男的就出外工作
男男女女用餐時還得分開吃真的很封建
這可能是當地人還保留着以前的文化吧
他們把最好的兔子肉蝸牛都拿給我品嘗
飯后還有啤酒交流會露絲是我的經理人
交流完畢我們就回市鎮去梳洗整理一下
然後和露絲跟她表妹們去迪士哥跳跳舞
那間迪士哥人超多音樂差一點氣氛都沒
一點多我們就離開肚子餓了去吃鴨面了
睡了三個多小時就起身上車去安江拜神
不寫啦你們留意我下一篇的越南之旅吧