Southern comfort

white sand dunes in Mui Ne, Vietnam

I always hate being that girl taking millions of pictures of landscapes and fruit trees, but when you're in a place as beautiful as the south of Vietnam, it's kinda hard not to be a scenery whore.

Fairy Springs

When people think about Vietnam, they usually think about the war and horrible traffic and dense jungles, but there are many unique microenvironments that really make this country special. Mui Ne, for example, is pretty much the Las Vegas strip of south Vietnam, full of Russian tourists and crowded resorts, but on the outskirts you can find really out-there places like this.

Renting a motorbike is by far the best way to see the country. Driving along a coastal highway at sunrise doesn't get much better.

Vietnamese people hard at work at like 4 in the morning lol

Sand sledding: fun on the way down, terrible going back up

WeeeeeEEE!!!

Mandatory

So we came across some guy who offered to let us ride his ostrich for a dollar....UH FUCK YES?

It feels just as ridiculous as it looks

Phan Thiet is a fishing town where you can get super fresh seafood from boats like these

Not sure how these rock formations came to be...maybe from the red sand dunes slowly eroding over time?

Mui Ne beach

Cu Chi is a town about an hour west of Saigon. During the war, guerrilla soldiers dug intricate underground tunnels here that have been preserved for tourists to crawl through. Fat Americans started coming, and now they've expanded the tunnels so everyone can fit

I had to do it

Waiting for the public transportation

Vung Tau is the beach hangout for people from Saigon to go for a weekend getaway. The coastline isn't as nice as Mui Ne, but the local hospitality is so much better. You can chill on the beach and have people bring beers, grilled squid, fruits, and pretty much whatever your heart desires for just a few bucks

This is the world's biggest Jesus statue. It's even bigger than the famous one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...which I found pretty hard to believe.

In true Vietnamese tradition, they made the Jesus hollow so you can climb it

We also took a 2 hour excursion to the Mekong Delta, where the famous floating markets can be found selling fruits and  handcrafts and lord knows what else. They even let us ride these sketchy looking boats back upstream.

Fish sauce (nuoc mam) factory. It smelled like dead rats basting in salt.

The fishies get put into this huge wooden vat and stew in salt for days or months. Vietnamese people do not fuck around when it comes to fish sauce.  If you've ever been to a vietnamese person's house, they flip shits when there's no more fish sauce. No dish can be made, no meals can be served, no one can be fucking happy when there is no fish sauce. The only thing you can do is to sit and think about how terrible it is that we've run out of fish sauce, and sit around and blame each other for having eaten too much of it, and shaking your head yelling that you already went to get it the last time it ran out

Rice paper to make derishous spring rolls

I don't know the english word for this fruit, but I loves these!

All for now :)