"still.. 'walk-able'"
Don't get me wrong by the quote above, I do love Viet Nam as especially the coffee shop
I don't know if view able or not but, check out my [Instagram]. So anyway, their coffee shop just like club! The problem is, my cousin and his family making the trip more complicated
Day 1:
First at all, I take photography stuff seriously.. LIKE TOO SERIOUSLY. And this is our first spot, a war museum about war between S.viet nam and N.viet nam (please correct me, if I wrong cause I didn't get heard many from tour guide) Outside the museum got tanks, boats and aircraft. I miss few shots of tanks cause my cousin keep pushing me away.
If you are gun lover like me, this museum is my choice for you, Do you wanna see old grenade launcher? or if you not a gun lover mind to know the 'Award-winning Photo of Girl Running Naked during Vietnam War'?, YES both of it's in the museum!! By the way, it's call 'War Remnants
Museum'
"inside this prison looking place.. it's explain torture method stuff.. creepy, but worth it"
"The Award-winning Photo of Girl Running Naked during Vietnam War I mentioned before"
"gun lover! I present you what gun I like!!!"
"Inside the museum's guide told me, this is the camera which the army used to take photo with it"
(Correct me if this is wrong)
"my great ancestor!!" -Billy's DSLR
Thanks goodness I got complete shot inside the museum cause my cousin and his family got bored easily lol. After the museum we heading to our next location!
"To the next stop!!"
Next stop will be 'Reunification Palace' or 'Independence Palace' by Google. It kinda look like white house, and inside is HUGE, I meant really HUGE. If I have a son, who just learn how to walk.. he probably lost inside "STAY WHERE YOU AT! DADDY COMING TO YOU!!".
"The basement/underground"
I can't really show all of them cause taking a lot of space here, and another reason is, not trying to be rude but you should go there and see by yourself. For every shot you shoot in the palace (by each room, window, and furniture) you won't fit all the photo you took in an 40 pages large album which can hold 200 photos.. unless you're creative one.
But after a long walk, without any distraction. And we heading to our next stop again!
"Red Church, is another name by Vietnamese"
Here, Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica. Sadly, it closed that day and the bright side cause on the right side of the photo got a post office. And that day I learned how to cross road in Viet Nam.
PAY ATTENTION NOW! Imagine this, a 2 lane road come with zebra crossing.. Hundred of motorcycle keep moving from point A to point B. How you going to cross the road? zebra crossing won't help a lot tho, but put up your hand where the vehicle heading before crossing the road and they will slow down and the zebra crossing should work now. For example, cars coming from the right side; I should put my right hand up and cross to the middle of the road and raise my left hand for inform the cars coming from the left side to know I'm about to cross the road
I did took a lot of photo at there, but.. post office.. ya.. private information LOL. Will upload some of them very soon in next 'undated' post.
After that, we heading back to hotel and get some rest and later Dinner! Won't be explaining how my dinner and mini trip going so I go directly to my 2nd day.
Day 2:
Morning bird keep tweeting, yes I check twitter at the morning. So, after breakfast and such we heading to another locations.
A Whale temple!!
According to legend, the remains of a whale washed up on the Vung Tau beach over 100 years ago. The carcass was so gargantuan that fishermen had to wait for the flesh to decompose before being able to pull it to shore and display the bones which came to symbolize the protector of the coast. -Citypassguide.com
"I just only took this best shot.."
Hey, I can't really blame my cousin on this, cause the temple kinda small and my cousin all of them are 'big in size' so, I can't really took few shot of the whale's bone.. But a handsome Ice cream man
"Look like [Jay Chou] by the way"
Then back to new hotel, have lunch and got some rest too. Later 3.00 PM (GMT+7) we all called by our tour guide and we going to Christ of Vũng Tàu, 'jesus mountain' by them.
"Worth it!"
(Around 650, almost 800+)
Seriously, 800+ step before you reach there. But thanks goodness there a lot of beach for you to take a rest. And while you resting there also few place where you can take photo too. And yes, you can stand on the shoulder as the photo I took. But..
"Another 129 step of stairs"
It's kinda dark at first then slowly you can feel cold air hitting your face.. And finally you reach!
"YAYYYYY!!!!!!!"
The wind is strong, my DSLR can blown away if I didn't hold it firmly, and my iphone keep shaking while taking paranoid/180 degree and also, there other people too.
"I don't know who you are, but you just became my model"
If you have Acrophobia or scare of height, I'm not very recommend you this one, cause I'm not scare of height but after 900+ of step of stairs, I look down from the top I scream all the sudden LOL
"yes, that is me and no.. they are not my cousin but Vietnamese teenager.
My clothing.. are kinda weird too"
(Few step to reach 650, and before going up to the shoulder)
Forget to mentioned, you can go up to the shoulder before 4.00 PM (GMT+7) and you can't wear hat. So another long trip with some distraction, head to restaurant for dinner and I'm not going to address them all but I'm leaving a short sentence about the night.
"WE.LITERALLY.CROSS.THE.HIGHWAY/FREEWAY"
Yes, by putting your hand up.
I do love to tell my 3rd day, but full of distraction and just few photo I just took..
but here is my very best photo I ever took.
"I wanna go home.."
Thanks for read till this end, and I'll found a way to post my 3rd and 4th day I'll edit some photo soon. Sorry for some grammar mistake and over use word such as 'after' and 'but'
