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Vietnam - Mekong Delta

Mui Ne beach in south Vietnam was amazing! Totally splurged there but still well under our budget, actually about 40% under our budget, so we can only feel so bad. Our days are spent by the pool reading and reading. I have learned how to dive and can swim the length of the pool underwater!! It was definitely time well spent and I think ANdre was very happy that I can play with him in the water!

We have spent time in Saigon trying to find the Reunification Palace which turned out to be a complete disapointment, we visited the War Remnants Museum which was horrific, met Phuong from The Asian Kitchen restaurant who took us around Saigon and then we later came back and celebrated her birthday with her and her friends. She helped us buy some great English grammar books that we later took back to Mui Ne beach as a gift to Luan, a young guy who works at one of the restaurants near the resort who told us in his very limited English, that he wants to save his money to go to school in Saigon to improve his English. He works from 8am-4pm, has one hour of free time that he uses to swim in the ocean before returning to work again from 5pm-10pm. After we gave him the books, he no longer swam in the ocean during his free time but instead came to visit us with his books for lessons. Since we were ALWAYS at the same table on the beach for the sunset, he knew where to find us. Eventually Heinz, Virginia, Andre and I went to Dalat together but met other friends at the resort who took over the lessons. We later found out that when they left they passed Luan onto others.......we're hoping this trend continues!

We had many happy hours, BBQ's on the beach, stumtish and gumulichite, coconut boats, crossed eyed Sao, sand dunes in a sand storm and all the $2 wine you can drink!! We did a week long trip to the Mekong Delta and were able to leave our big packs behind in Mui Ne with Heinz and Virginia......we were hoping that we wouldn't get too used to travelling without them!! I saw a guy washing his rooster with a wash cloth on the bank of the Mekong!!! How crazy is that!!

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