Vũng Tàu 🏝️

 We hopped on a flight from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city, then caught a ferry to Vũng Tàu. It’s a city with a population of about 400,000 on a southern peninsula, close to Ho Chi Minh.

Vũng Tàu‘s main industry is offshore oil drilling and exporting, but this city also serves as a vacation destination for local Vietnamese because of the sandy beaches and sunny weather. Also the beaches here have huge random deposits of shells that get washed ashore. I really love beachcombing, so that’s been my favourite thing to do this past week. 

It’s very humid here, Jared wore a backpack for the walk home from the beach and check out the sweat! 

One evening we were walking home and saw a couple unloading a bunch of pineapples they had picked to sell the next day. We asked if we could buy one and the lady carved it all up perfectly for us right then and there. Talk about fresh 👍🏻 

Along the beach, many locals scrape mussels and clams right off the rocks. They collect big buckets everyday to take back to their restaurants for the dinner rush that evening. 

There’s a large port right on Front Beach and we love watching the fishing boats come in. One night we caught an impromptu fish market situation that was so interesting to witness. 

We’ve mostly been relaxing and taking our days fairly slow while here in Vũng Tàu. Our 3 month trip is almost wrapping up and, boy oh boy, are we feeling it! We have been going so hard, trying to explore and see everything in every place we visit. Even on our “lazy days”, we still manage to walk minimum 7 or 8 kms. Our shoes are wearing out and maaaaybe also our 40-yr-old backs 😂

 

While out watching the sunset one evening, we took this selfie. Turns out we couldn’t compete with what was happening on the deck below us:

The Instagram Model game is STRONG here in Vietnam. We see people (mostly females) posing for pictures endlessly, not exaggerating; hundreds of the same pose. Then the females will go look at the pictures, critique how their boyfriend can do better as the photographer, and make them take some more!! They don’t even care how many people they’re blocking or how long it takes to get the perfect content. It makes for some great entertainment for Jared and I 😂

We are heading to Ho Chi Ming City for the last few days of our trip, before we make the journey back home to Canada!