Viet Nam

At random

Tagged:  •    •    •    •    •    •  

Today i just give some random thoughts, actually as usual Eye-wink

I'm really quite fascinated by the traffic. The turning for example is special. In most countries you just do a 90° turn if you wanna go right or left, here it's different. If you wanna turn left you need to pass the oncoming traffic. To stop here wait for a gap or that people let you pass just doesn't works. So what you do here is that you start turning at the beginning of the junction in a 30° angle while doing so you make your way through the oncoming traffic. They will go around you, just don't be affraid. Sometimes you have to go slower, sometimes to accelerate. If you wanna be a bit more local, than press th honk while turning at least several times. But this multitasking can be difficult, especially for the male fraction... And always remember the right of way goes from big to small. Cars before bikes, and thebigger they are the more/stronger rights they have!

Yesterday i went out to have fundives, not to work. Here are around twelve divingclubs, but one of them are really nice, friendly people and good diver as well. They invited me to come with them and i did. Been to the only reef here where it is for normal people allowed to dive and did three dives. Was quite nice, the visibility was all right and they dives have been relaxed. The coral reefs here are not as good as on other places, but you can still see some nice things (small sized) and if you into corals, you also will get one's money's worth.

The Vietnamse Guide was really good, i think is one of the best divers i ever met and he has eyes which are unbelievable. He sees and finds things.... E.g  he spotted a flunder which  layed around 15 meters away on the sand (really good camouflaged) and not even in our direction... so we saw among other things ghost pipefishes, stonefishes and a frogfish which is not common here.

In the evening we had a Vietnames BBQ with them and after that we went in a bar to have a drink. Due to the outside life here you sit (at least in Vietnamese places) on the small chairs, which i mentioned before. So while we drunk the police showed up. Actually  they drive a small truck and they are sitting on the truck rack. Because you are only allowed to take for your business half of the footpath you allways need to watch for the police. So this time they have been spotted to late, so at the time they jumped of the truck everybody got up, took they chairs and tables and tried to hide them or put them into the shop. Because the police takes everything what is on the wrong half of the footpath. We only lost one chair to them, other groups lost a lot more Eye-wink

They just pick them up put 'em on their truck rack and take off. I heard you can go to their depot and get your stuff back against a nice paiment. But to buy it new is cheaper Eye-wink

 

So thats for today, keep looking up if you're interested and if you like add a comment, because is also nice to see what people thinking while reading the text....

 

 

Viet Nam Boat

Tagged:  •    •  
Viet Nam Boat

One day i would like to learn to drive this boats...

Syndicate content