Vung Tau

Vung Tau is not a very touristy place. Not that I have any numbers or anything but the fact that people actually change seats in restaurants, to be able to stare unabashedly at us without having to turn their necks sort of tells me that. We like it though, coming straight from Mui Ne which was so touristy the menus were written in Russian.

Here everything is in Vietnamese, even our conversations with the locals (though very limited, the only words we know so far being 'thank you', 'man', 'woman' and 'two'). The menus are also in Vietnamese, with a few words translated into English or more common, Russian. It's absolutely an experience, I don't think Mia ever imagined having to act as the sun while I pretended to sunbath when hunting for sunscreen (she did a very convincing job by the way).

After a while it sort of gets a little bit tiresome though, especially after trying to get a new toilet paper roll using our very limited Vietnamese vocabulary, or when inspecting the food you've ordered and discover that you have to eat a turtle in something that looks like a sauce made of just butter in order to get full (not that that has acually happened to us - yet - but turtles actually seem to be a pretty popular dish here).

Still it's a great experience and we have always enjoyed charades.