Saturday, March 21, 2009
Girls Gone Mild: Vietnam Edition
I've been on spring break this week which meant i went far far away from the city...so last friday i got on an overnight bus to rach gia and then at 8 am got on a ferry for PHU QUOC...Phu Quoc is an island that has at least one of the "top 5 hidden beaches in the world" and also has like 0 people/traffic compared to the city...we stayed at the sea star resort in a garden view bungalow for 40 dollars a night...we had a gorgeous view of like a garden and were a 2 second walk from a practically deserted beach...i've never seen water as clear and blue as phu quoc and i've spent my fair share of time at nice beaches on the "emerald coast" of florida...there were also only ever about 20 people on our beach at one time which was amazing...on sunday we went on a snorkel tour which was amazing and hilarious b/c the girl i was traveling with spoke vietnamese and our tour guide was intrigued so we got to hear everything 3 times (once in english for everybody, once in vietnamese for her, and then one more time in english for me seeing as how the only thing i can say is my name is helen, i'm from america, and i'm 20)...we spent all day on the boat laying out in the sun and snorkeling and it was amazing except for the part where i forgot to put sunscreen on the tops on my legs and thus burned the shit out of them...the next 3 days we pretty much just laid on the beach and got hour long massages on the beach for 60.000VND (3.60 USD)...i'm finally tan again which is probably the best part of the entire break for me...the only bad part was tuesday we went all out and had a really nice expensive dinner but they didn't cook the seafood in our green beans right so i spent a better half of wednesday curled up in bed...now i'm back in the city which is still full of skeezy men but now that i'm not ghostly pale they're a little less intrigued by me which is nice...now i just have to convince myself to do all the homework i haven't done for the past 3 weeks
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awesome helen! you are so funny and sound like you're having an interesting time. i love reading your blog to my roommates. :)
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