Singapur/Vietnam

On the 3rd day we made a trip to Ninh Binh to see the ,,Halong Bay without water" how it is called and some other sights, which you can see in the posts above. It was our first not self-organised trip: 29 people, mostly from Asia - Japan, Singapore, China, one family from Canada and except of us just two tourists from Polen representing the Europe. It was a touristic trip how you can imagine it, but some facts are worth noting: the guide was a very special guy, who liked to make jokes about the Indians - it would be funny, if there wouldn't be a noticable group of them in the bus 🙊 he also repeated every of his english speaches in vietnamese, but we didn't know why, because there were exactly zero tourists from Vietnam in the bus 😅 however he was right with one thing: the Indians would always come too late 😃 the Singapore guy sitting next to Robert heard his chinese folklore music the whole 2 hours of the way to Ninh Binh - without earpods - so it was another cultural input for everyone.
If you take a bus in Vietnam, it's important to know, that the seats are smaller than in Europe, so even I, with my 164 cm and short legs, had a problem to find a place for my knees. However William was a star of this trip, like the youngest passanger, he got lot of attention and he found a new friend: Daffy, an 11 years old canadian. His family has been travelling the world since 7 months and even if Daffy seemed a little shy at the beginning, it was a pleasure to see how the two of them understood euch other, even if they didn't speak the same language. They spend the whole day together, William packed all the english words he could and Daffy was really amazing to him - almost like a big brother. They also wanted to sit together in the bus, so the Singapore guy next to Robert made a place for me and he even gave the two guys some chewing gums. Even I was a little sad, as we had to say good bye to themRead more