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The small human is traveling again! After being in Malaysia for my semester abroad but sadly during MCO (Lockdown), I wanted to revisit the country to finally see more than only the hostel (and one time the street food street ‘bukit bintang’). This time, we planned two awesome trips to visit many of the most …
So this Tuesday I finally completed my quarantine!! 🎉🎉 My new room is now at the second floor of the building and the view from my window is… Not really great! 😅 Sadly I’ve got a room where the window is directly in front of a wall^^ I tried to ask if I could maybe …
Oh, my Quarantine Room! I love it so much! After this seven days I will have so many great memories with this place! Like laying in bed and watching TV …or sitting in bed watching TV …or walking through the room while watching TV… Jokes aside it’s really not that bad! My room is very …
As I said, the flights were pretty normal. Of course, the stewardesses had to put on a thin cotton overalls on and everybody had to wear face masks, but for me, I’m already pretty accustomed to them so I don’t really notice them. The food on the first flight was pretty good. In fact, I …
Yeah that’s right, while everybody else is staying at home and the world still isn’t the same as it was, I’m just gonna piss right off to participate in my universitys exchange program and study one semester abroad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! The last few months were loaded with paperwork I had to do so …
The next vacation is at the doorstep! I just came from an awesome camping trip with some friends, had one day to pack my stuff and now I’m on the way to the airport with a friend of mine. This time we’re going to Taiwan! Super hyped already, althoug my luggage wasn’t that excited as …
I woke up, packed everything together and checked out of my hotel. I walked a last time around and bought a thing or two. Then I got to the Tattoo studio to say goodbye. They wished me the best and gave me some advices for Cambodia. I really hope to meet the soon again 🙂
At 3 o’clock my bus went from Saigon to Phnom Penh, at about 9pm I arrived at my hotel. I went out to eat something and then went to bed. I’m in the Happy House Backpacker hostel in the 13th street, it’s very cheap and you see also why. I am in a 20 bed room if I counted correctly and there is a very small bathroom. It’s really okay for the price, about 3$ per night and it’s not really gross or dirty. And with the location it’s pretty good, the Wat Phnom temple is about 10min walking away, the city centre should also be pretty near and a street full of bars is also just a corner away^^
Sadly I didn’t took any pictures of the bus ride because I was sleeping almost the whole time^^
In the morning I went to the Cu Chi tunnels, it’s like two hours or so from Ho Chi Minh. I can really recommend to go there, the tour that I had was a ½ Day tour from 8:30 am till around 1pm so it doesn’t really costs you a lot of time and it’s also enough to see everything. The tour consisted of 4 Parts, A Propagandafilm about the Guerrilla soldiers, a tour where all the traps and ideas from the soldiers is shown and a walk through the narrow underground tunnels, a shooting range where you can try out some of the old weapons they used during the time and a eating part where you can try what the soldiers ate everyday, Taro. Its kinda like I imagine a sweet potato would taste like, it’s shaped like a longer but thiner potato and also looks like it. I found it pretty tasty but eating just that everyday would be a little bit boring^^ The soldiers ate it because it grows very fast and almost everywhere in the jungle.
After the tour I got out a little bit away from my hotel to go to the streetfoodmarket near the binh tanh market and visited both. At the streetfoodmarket I got some real good Indian Chicken Vindaloo with Onion Pharata and a Mango lassi, back to the roots I guess^^
After this great meal I went to the binh tanh market and bought some stuff like chilis, lotusseeds (which taste soo different than I thought^^ much more crunchy and not really like a nut what I had expected 🙈) and some other stuff for back home. In the internet stood the market would be packed with people and you would really have to fight to get to the center… Well when I went there (about 3pm) the market was relatively empty and I could easily walk through.
I then went back to my friends from the tattoo studio and chilled with them again, watched some videos, talked with them about tattoos, culture and life in Vietnam and watched how they made their sketches and tattooed people. The guys make some awesome work, I will post some of their works when I get good shots at them.
After a breakfast in form of a burger with sausages instead of a patty, which was still very delicious, I went to the central post office to send a postcard.
In the post office were also some souvenirshops who sold some nice stuff which even weren’t that expensive as I thought. After that I looked at the Notre Dame cathedral next to the post office, I just saw it from the outside because it had opened much later and I was to lazy to come back later^^
I went then home and accidentally slept a while. I went to a café and then to a Spa where I had to promise the a girl that handed out flyers of the Spa to tourists. It was crazy in the street I was, almost every 10 m somebody wants to give you a flyer and that you come to their place^^
I got a whole body vietnamese massage which was really great, they cracked some bones in my body I didn’t even know they could crack like my ears and even my scalp!
If you’re in Vietnam you should really get one, they’re super cheap and are really good! I paid like 6$ for 1h of a great massage.
For the guys maybe just say you have a girlfriend, that makes it a little easier to deny some certain extra services…^^
I then went to the tattoo shop from yesterday and went out to eat with one of the guys. I got a rice porridge with duck and some bread pieces which was pretty tasty, I just forgot to take a picture of it 🙈
After the meal I got this drink which tastes a little bit like red bull and is also something like this.
In the evening we went all together to a bar a the street and enjoyed the night. It was very nice and I find it very nice that sitting in a bar here also means to eat a lot of stuff 😅😋
We got some fried gristle pieces, a sun-dried and then fried fish, chicken feet and my highlight: the duck embryo! One of the guys invited me to one so I finally had the chance to try it ( I think alone I probably hadn’t buy me one^^). It tasted really not bad, you get lime and chili with it to dip it in and it’s real nice, it doesn’t tastes that different from a normal egg and sort of looks like it when you peel it. But if you break it open you can see all the details, like the freshly developed head and stuff 😛
Was a great experience to try it^^
