Wednesday, February 15, 2006

My trip to Vietnam ~ by my daughter

The sun rises in the early morning. Our December holiday trip is to Vietnam as well as visiting my father working place. My two grandmothers are going with us. It took us 3 hours to arrive at Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.

The next morning, my father’s secretary took us to visit around Hanoi city. First, we visited the first university of Hanoi. Secondly, we went to make aodai for my grandmother. It is the traditional clothes that Vietnamese people wear. At five o’clock, we went to see the water puppet. It is very interesting show. At 9 o’clock and we boarded the overnight train to Sapa.

I woke up at 5.30am morning. The train is supposed to reach Sapa at 6am but it delayed till 10am. The local people fetched us to our resort – ATI Sapa resort. SAPA is a hill above 2000m sea level. Beautify mountain around us and rose garden….We see sunrise….

Early in the morning, it is extremely cold. After breakfast, our tour guide was taking us to the Cat Cat village today. We walked down to the Valley and go around the mountain and visited a waterfall. It a fun and tiring walk up & down the mountain. At the evening, we shop around the shops and bought lots of local products and have our dinner. Time fly, it coming to the end of our SAPA trip, we packed our things.

The next early morning, we visited the Sliver waterfall and Heavenly gate. We eat BBQ sweet potatoes…. Therafter we took a van down the hill to Lao Cai town. Can not imagine that the van can sit 18 people and it supposes to carry only 12. We put our bags at a restaurant and crossing the border to China border town Hakou – part of the China Yunan province. We shop till 4pm. We ate our dinner at 6pm and leave the restaurant with our bags at 8.30pm. We boarded the train and arrived at Hanoi in the early morning.

We arrived at Hanoi at 6pm. We slept for another 3 hours and then my father leave for work. We had instant noodles for lunch. My father took us to make spectacles till 3pm and he went to work again. We packed our bags. We went to bed at 9pm. We stay 2 more days in Hanoi.

2 days later, we are taking a flight to Ho Chin Minh. My father’s friend is taking us to our hotel. We had a delicious dinner with his big family in the Chinese Restaurant.

The next early morning, we are going for shopping around Ho Chin Minh. We went to a market. We had lunch with my father and the driver took us to Diamond shopping centre and we visited a museum next to a Saigon river.

The next day, we are going to Voung Tao, a seaside city. It needed 2 hours to reach there. We slept on the van. We have our lunch at a seafood restaurant; we visited Ye Shu and place of interest ie Marry and Kuan Yi temple.

The last day, .we went to one of the hill top of Voung Tao. It a light house more than 100 years. We view the whole island with beautiful coast line. We took 2 hours of car and went to Ho Chin Ming for lunch as we are very hungry. After X days trip, we are flying back to Singapore. We arrived at Singapore at 7.30pm. I had an enjoyable trip.

Tan Jing Jie
29/12/2004

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