Gao Giong.

Today we started off with a presentation about Vietnamese history, particularly focusing on where it’s name historically came from, the Vietnamese war and its current situation.
After lunch we were taken on a boat through the local canals to see the floating houses and other parts of the riverside village. We then headed to Gao Giong (green oasis) which is an 1000 acre national park mainly for bird wildlife. Here we took small Sampans down the rivers to see all the nesting grounds of the birds. It was an amazing experience to see hundreds of birds flying through the flooded forest (literally looks like a floating forest), making their nests on the top of the trees and just generally flying around. On the way back through the canal there was a little monkey above us who started peeing into the river as we got closer bahahahah. Sadly I didn’t get a picture as I was too busy laughing at the peeing monkey, he was very very cute….
We then drove through the capital city of the province (very colonial) before boarding the ship again.
Oh we also got to try lotus tea (I liked it but no else did ://) and lotus nuts, apparently eating their hearts (little green things in the middle) is very good for your health.Lue lisää