Scooters, beach and mountains

A few weeks of research have made me conclude the following:

On one scooter you can transport the following elements:
- three adults
- two adults and 1-3 children
- 3 full-grown pigs (they need to be dead though...)
- 3 cages of geese
- the entire contend of your vegetable garden
- around 20 bags with water and gold fish
- 1 cubic meter of flat cardboard boxes
- at least 4 bags of litter
- a glass plate (1,70 x 1,00 meter)
- whatever more seems impossible to you!

After the two amazing weeks in Cambodia Sterre and I needed some peace and quiet and so, after one day in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, we continued our journey to the north and ended up in the beach town of Mui Ne. There we enjoyed 5 days of sun, sea and sand, complete relaxation, time to think, to read books, to make plans for next years challenges (fieldwork)to talk a lot and to enjoy good food :) We even managed to move ourselves more at the end of our stay and visited the beautiful white sand dunes near Mui Ne...

Then on we went, to Dalat, a place that the Lonely Planet promised us to be a charming mountain village...in the end it was more a city than a village and the things to see where too crowded by fellow tourists to be able to enjoy it...but we managed to find its charms! Highlights were the nights in which the whole city comes to life around the market, the market itself and the cute little train that brought us to an amazing pagoda, where Gaudi meets China and every single square centimeter of wall is covered by colored pieces of glass and broken china, making the pagoda and incredible piece of art where you can be amazed by every single detail!

Another long bus trip left us back in rainy Saigon, where there is much to do, plus free internet in the room (...), good food and the prospect of being home again in exactly one week!!! (something we are both very much looking forward to despite all the good things traveling has to offer!)

For now the prospect is: two more days in Saigon, two days in Malaysia and the rest of the week will be traveling...
On Monday, the 30st of August at 9.00AM we will put foot again on Dutch soil in Eindhoven!

See you very soon!
Sara

The place we called "home" during our beach days

The beach


Fishing boats in Mui Ne


The beautiful white sand dunes with a surreal water hyacinth pond


The feeling you walked into the Sahara


Beatiful little street and beautiful little lady in Dalat


The colder weather inspired us to refresh our knitting skills :)


Where Gaudi meets China


Beautiful detail in a pagoda completely covered by pieces of glass and broken china

Somewhere one the 6th or 7th floor...


Temple in Ho Chi Minh City


Vietnam and its development potential :)