The next morning, Huong showed up at my place. I overslept and she got mad but we made it and had banh mi for breakfast. It was really filling, we waited a while for our bus to Trang An, a Unesco world heritage site. Waiting for the bus was really fun as while I was walking around the park I really got to see the life of the Vietnamese people, they had salsa dancing, fishermen, and just people doing general park stuff. We got on a really good bus with comfy seats and free water and went to Trang An, it was a river boat ride around a series of caves and surrounded by lush greenery and mountains. We had two people with us in the back, we didn’t know them yet but we did share some jokes and conversations. The boat stopped by a few islands and we walked and looked around. There were temples and jungles and fish. Going inside the caves was quite suffocating, we had to bend over to not get hit.
We did become friends with the people behind us, Justin from San Francisco and Kevin from Switzerland. They told me about their life and how much they traveled like their trip to Bolivia and other countries and they were doing it for months at a time. Such a thing sounded impossible to me before but it made such a strong impact on me and right there and then I decided to try to emulate that lifestyle and see as much of this world as I can while I’m still young. We went to have lunch afterwards, goat meat, they paid for it. It was a spontaneous trip but they invited us to go see the tallest pagoda that was in the area and they let us ride behind their motorcycles, I navigated the Google Maps while Kevin drove the bike. Huong was with Justin.Read more
May 10, 2019 in Vietnam