👀🚶♀️ Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. (Henry David Thoreau) // 永远不要回头看，除非你想往回走。 Yǒngyuǎn bùyào huítóu kàn, chúfēi nǐ xiǎng wǎng huí zǒu. // Vĩnh viễn bất yếu hồi đầu khán, trừ phi nhĩ tưởng vãng hồi tẩu. // Đừng bao giờ quay đầu lại trừ phi bạn định đi theo … Read more
So the trip was almost over. We had the last meal at a rice place near the bus station. First time I tried sour soup with a strange fruit. I had to ask for its name. Turned out it was called plum mango or mango plum in English which is a species of flowering plant … Read more
The sleeper bus reached Hai Phong City 15 hours later. The day before must have been the longest day of my life. I thought it was no better when a “xe om” rider showed us a place which I thought was worse than a toilet. Luckily, we decided to get out of it and checked … Read more
This must have been the worst day of our trip. In the morning, we had a terrible bread breakfast at a cafe nearby. Just when we got on the sleeper bus to depart Dien Bien for Hai Phong, everything went from bad to worse. The coach reached the passes right away, and we had to … Read more
As we saw almost everything that was worth seeing in Dien Bien, we decided to go back to the A1 Hill to visit the Museum of Dien Bien Phu Victory. When we were back, we enjoyed “chè bưởi” (grapefruit sweet soup) on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street. At lunch break, we saw that the Him Lam … Read more