Sunday, December 16, 2007

My trip to Vietnam

On 3rd of dec, my family & i went on a flight to saigon.da flight to vietnam was about 2h long.when we reached saigon, we took a domestic flight to na trang .at first,the plane could not land so we had to turn back to saigon. we stayed in a hotel(i have no idea what's da name). da next day,we went to na trang. we took a speed boat to vin pearl,sofitel.i enjoyed my stay there, espeacially da beach. we then drove to dalat i enjoyed dalat da best because we went horse back riding. saw lots of waterfalls, climbed the highest point of dalat which is above 2000 m above sea level. went on a luge thing (longer than the one at sentosa. but not so fun cos mum was controlling it so slow as she was afraid!) and we stayed at elephant mountain. It was very cold in the night on elephant mountain (10 degrees). The toilets were built underground but it had hot water(!) and shower and flush toilet! We stayed at sofitel dalat palace which was very old and creepy! We kept shutting the connecting door to our parents room and not able to get back to our room. the hotel had to come twice to unscrew the whole main door to let us back into our room. The second time it happened, my dad blew his top (!!) as it was embarassing and he had to tip the guys doing it!

In Saigon we stayed at Sheraton. It was like spore. I like the food there. Our vietnamese friend uncle trung(pronounce as chuong) brought us to some interesting restaurants in vietnam. We met his family. the children in vietnam work very long hours in school. 7am to 4pm and go for night classes for english.
we went to this interesting place called cu chi tunnel where the vietnamese fought against the americans. i was inspired by the torture chambers. back in the hotel we made "torture stuff" using toothpicks. they were hidden behind the cushions. mum happened to sit on one of them and she didnt think it was funny at all!
we went to many art galleries and my parents bought two pieces. the art pieces were interesting. uncle trung also brought us to his own gallery and i met some artists there doing their painting.

we went back to spore. it was great to be back home!

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