yummy @ snowflake

after dinner, cannot tahan must go buy snowflake.
bought the best seller. jelly grass, jelly grass ice, yam taro ball, fan shu taro ball.
satisfaction to the maximum!!

dinner @ chillis

Having a great dinner @ mid valley CHILLIS.
bottomless drinks...bottomless chips...i hope i had a bottomless stomach..

\yummy/ tostada chips..lamb chop..fajitas

520-2011

ring..
is hapy..
a special nite..
in a special place..
never tot is like this..
out from all of my imagination..

Lok's birthday

Breakfast at OWNWAY

Lunch at SUBWAY

Dinner at SUNWAY (Yuen Steamboat)

After Dinner EnJoy OURWAY at VINTRY-the experience wine

8th day in vietnam- HCMC

Last day in HCMC. need to go back to work again tomorrow!!

We went for last minute shopping and eating.

Check out the hotel at 5pm and head to airport (distance is 30min only).

The flight delay a little. Depart 9:30pm. Reach Malaysia already 12am (is midnight). Sleep at 3am..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

7th day in vietnam- mekong

(a)My Tho&Ben Tre (VND219,000)
(b)Cai Be&Vinh Long (VND269,000)
Both place are Mekong Delta Trip. we choose (b). It does not worth the price of VND319,000/pax (normally is VND269,000, public holiday need to pay extra VND50,000)
It is better to go by ourselves early in the morning, because we miss the morning part of the mekong delta, where the people selling, buying, exchanging goods from their boats.

8am depart to Cai Be (about 110km). Then take a boat trip to discover the floating market. At that time (around 10am), not many boats already..sigh..

Going on to the local village to visit rice paper making, coconut candy, snake wine, honey tea, and rice cookies.

We went to Xeo May riverside restaurant for lunch. i wonder is tat the only restaurant in Mekong? i think most people have wedding dinner here too. But the food not good, yucks..

After the lunch, we took a boat along the Mekong river to Vinh Long. Oh, the journey is 45 min, tour guide saying nothing, just let us discover the daily activities of local people. Most of us fell asleep and also the tour guide. Bad guidance.

Trips end at 6pm, arrive back to HCMC.

We had our dinner at 3A3 Restaurant. nice food! lunch:dinner=hell:heaven
Then we went to other Trung Nguyen again. Bought a lot of coffee!!

6th day in vietnam-HCMC

Booked our trip to Mekong tomorrow (44 USD for 3 ppl- price increase due to public holiday). Then walk to Diamond Plaza and have our lunch.

Main target is to go Trung Nguyen coffee house. The No.1 coffee in vietnam. Try it and u will love it. Bought some coffee from there too.

Then we look for the VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPET SHOW at Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre (55B, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Dist 1, HCMC). 50 min show without intermission. daily show (5pm & 6:30pm). Ticket VND 120,000/pax.

It starts with music prelude and follow by a few story:
1. Raising the Festival Flag
2. The Narrator: Teu
3. Dragon dance
4. In a buffalo with a flute
5. Agriculture
6. Catching frogs
7. Rearing ducks and catching foxes
8. Fishing
9. Returning with pride
10.Lion dance
11.Phoenix dance
12.King Le Loi in boat tour and legend 'restored sword'
13.Children playing in water
14.Boat racing
15.Unicorns play with ball
16.Fairy dance
17.dance of 4holy animals

They hide at the back, half body soaked in the water to present all the above scene.
It is nice, but it will be better if they show English wording on a screen. they talk and sing in Vietnam language which most of the tourist actually cant understand.

We had our dinner at Napoly

5th day in vietnam- cu chi tunnel

Depart: 8:30am (half day trip). It takes around 1 and a half hour to get to Cu Chi tunnel. Entry ticket= VND 80,000.

Never see, never know. It is a miracle that they build this in 1960's. This is an unique project of architecture, as an underground system of tunnel deeply located in the ground bed with numerous floors, several deviated alley like a cobweb over 200km long with its places boarding, accommodation, cooking, meeting and fighting. They use their hands and tools to dig. no machinery. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, BELIEVE IT.

We watch documentary film, sightseeing, and try shooting with M16 (10 bullets VND 300,000)

The tour guide is superb! he explain well and entertain the whole group! thumb up!
This trip is quite in a hurry, but we still learn a lot and have fun. no regret coming to this place. A place not to be miss when coming to HCMC.

We went back and arrive HCMC at 2pm. continue our journey and shopping at Ben Thanh Market!

4th day in vietnam- mui ne/ HCMC

Enjoy a buffet breakfast and took photos before heading back to HCMC again.

A long journey, traffic jam, and we arrive HCMC at 7pm.
Rush to toilet!! haha..then we booked our trip to cu chi tunnel tomorrow! (USD 21.42 for 3 ppl)

Dinner at 1 of the hotel restaurant, then bought some stuff to eat in the hotel as supper.

3rd day in vietnam- phan thiet/ mui ne

Wake up early in the morning. not enough time to had the hotel breakfast and rush to sinh tourist to get on the bus at 7:30am to phan thiet-mui ne!!

5 hours of drive and finally we reach the place.

Have our lunch serve by mui ne resort.

3pm start journey to visit
1. fishing village
- the round boat cost around USD 100, can use up to 2 years
- use to catch fish and produce a lot of fish sauce

2. white sand dunes
- seems like we are in the sahara dessert
- we have a chance to slide down from the top (VND 20,000 per sliding board)
**2nd lesson to learn:- also do not talk to stranger
We took the sliding board and on our way to experience the slide
There is a 'friendly' little boy following us and try to help us
That time, the wind blow and i hardly can open my eyes wide
The little boy help and teach us to slide
After the fun~~~we want to give him some tips~~there comes the ugly side of that little boy before we action..asking for VND500,000. !@#$%#$%%%@! then bargain to USD 20 %#$&*@*& if is not because of the shoe, we will not give him..at last we gave 150,000 @#$%A%@#$ do not trust the 'friendly' people. no matter is an adult or child

3. lotus lake

4. yellow sand dunes
- same like white sand dunes, only the color of the sand is different.

Back to hotel, take a bath and have dinner serve by the mui ne resort.
We had some drink and pancake for supper beside the beach. quite romantic!