After so many posts on our Vietnam trip, 10 to be precise, thought I was done. but, here I am back to you all with one last post. No more posts on Vietnam - I promise.
*On the fourth day of our trip, after an exhaustive day, the babes went on a shopping spree - specifically looking for something that I wanted to pick up for Dennu and voila, I found a shop named after me. First-time ever!! Here is the Vincy Shop.
*On the fourth day of our trip, after an exhaustive day, the babes went on a shopping spree - specifically looking for something that I wanted to pick up for Dennu and voila, I found a shop named after me. First-time ever!! Here is the Vincy Shop.
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| That's a store with my name folks!! |
*One of the funny habits of the locals, the gentlemen seem to be lifting up the T-shirts and showing off the mid-riff / paunches to the general public, making us feel a bit embarrassed / funny. After we saw many of them practicing this, figured out this could be to beat the heat of the tropical climes around this place. Still, pretty weird.
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| Man in the park, with his Tshirt lifted up showing midriff |
*We met a Chinese lady and her son at Hanoi who got interested in us since we were Indians. One of the questions she asked us was about the red dot that Indians wear on the forehead and why we were not donning it. Excited and thrilled we took a short session on Indian culture while we were waiting for our delayed flight. Since we didn't speak or understand Chinese and they struggled with English, the entire communication happened in Google translate on our mobiles. Technology brings cultures closer !!
*Every house in most lanes in Hanoi city would turn into a small joint for the dinner in the evening. Small stools and big stools made of plastic are pulled up and they serve dinner mostly non vegetarian stuff with beer. The Vietnamese seem to enjoy this evening snack parties.
*Vietnamese love to squat - you will seeing them squatting all over the place. The men, women and the children!! and they do it so effortlessly!
That's all folks !!!
That's all folks !!!
Comment from Ramesh through an email
ReplyDeleteLovely post to end the series. Its little snippets like this that make travel so enjoyable. The sights are fine, but little events like this make the trip even more memorable.
Ha Ha - to a guy (drunk or otherwise) besotted with you. Lady - you can't escape being admired :):)
This has been a wonderful travelogue. From a blog perspective, easily the best of the babe travelogues. Lovely places, great experiences and a wonderful narrative that had me glued to every post. Bravo to all four of you for going to nice places and having lovely experiences. May you have lots and lots of such trips and travelogues. This blog owner is a superb blogger and writer and Sudha has her occasional guest posts but a request for all the ladies to write at least one part of the travelogue. Different perspectives will add even more charm to what is already an excellent travelogue.
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Ramesh, Bạn thật là tử tế.
DeleteI can write many more travelogues to get comments like this from you. seriously, it means a lot to me.
And yes, the other babes need to add their experiences too, which will make this space much more palpable for my readers. Am going to whip it out of them next time. I took so long myself to complete this and I feel pretty accomplished ( over nothing though!!). :-) :-) :-)