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Today we took the boat from HCMC to Vung Tau. A ticket: 200kDong/person. For the bikes they charged 100kDong/bike. Way too much according to us. But they woudn't give in. So after a couple of minutes trying from Ardan we were thinking of biking down to Vung Tau. But we didn't make a GPS-route, it was already after 9 'o clock and we had to bike 125 km. So maybe another try? I went up to one of the ticketoffices again, but, no luck. Off to the next one. I tried to persuade her by saying that when you have big luggage with you, they don't charge you extra. "Well our bikes are our luggage, so can you please give us a discount, because that is not fair". YES, it worked! Although only 50kDong discount. When it was time to get on the boat, the lady who checks your ticket said that we had to pay extra for our bikes, because her captain woudn't take them on the boat otherwise. We said: "no, we already paid extra, look it's written on the ticket". She again said that we had to pay extra. Two more people of the boatstaff joined her and said we had to pay extra. After that the captain came and also said we had to pay extra. We were saying all the time that we woudn't pay extra, because we already did! First very calm, after a while not so calm anymore ;) I was even physically reacting, litteraly trembling. After a while the lady from the ticketoffice came and gave the captain the money she charged us extra. Problem solved... Pfff.
A 75minutes boattrip later we arrived at very hot Vung Tau. We had a noodlesoup for lunch and set off to Long Hai (more quiet and less touristic then Vung Tau). It took a bit of searching, got lost in a little village, but we found our way. Arriving in Long Hai, we looked for the only guesthouse in the lonely planet. Lonely planet should update their information on Long Hai! A lot of guesthouses to choose from behind the "military guesthouse"! Really one after the other. We also got a good discount. In the first guesthouse it was 350kDong (too much!), so I just went back out and went looking next door. The lady came back out and all of a sudden said 200kDong. Okay then, let's have a look :) Very clean and nice room. After our shower we went for a walk on the rather dirty beach and stopped for an ice (weasel shit?) coffee somewhere on the road, where cows almost came into the shop :). We ended our day with a 'pau bo' and 'com bo' for dinner again.
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Today we took the boat from HCMC to Vung Tau. A ticket: 200kDong/person. For the bikes they charged 100kDong/bike. Way too much according to us. But they woudn't give in. So after a couple of minutes trying from Ardan we were thinking of biking down to Vung Tau. But we didn't make a GPS-route, it was already after 9 'o clock and we had to bike 125 km. So maybe another try? I went up to one of the ticketoffices again, but, no luck. Off to the next one. I tried to persuade her by saying that when you have big luggage with you, they don't charge you extra. "Well our bikes are our luggage, so can you please give us a discount, because that is not fair". YES, it worked! Although only 50kDong discount. When it was time to get on the boat, the lady who checks your ticket said that we had to pay extra for our bikes, because her captain woudn't take them on the boat otherwise. We said: "no, we already paid extra, look it's written on the ticket". She again said that we had to pay extra. Two more people of the boatstaff joined her and said we had to pay extra. After that the captain came and also said we had to pay extra. We were saying all the time that we woudn't pay extra, because we already did! First very calm, after a while not so calm anymore ;) I was even physically reacting, litteraly trembling. After a while the lady from the ticketoffice came and gave the captain the money she charged us extra. Problem solved... Pfff.
A 75minutes boattrip later we arrived at very hot Vung Tau. We had a noodlesoup for lunch and set off to Long Hai (more quiet and less touristic then Vung Tau). It took a bit of searching, got lost in a little village, but we found our way. Arriving in Long Hai, we looked for the only guesthouse in the lonely planet. Lonely planet should update their information on Long Hai! A lot of guesthouses to choose from behind the "military guesthouse"! Really one after the other. We also got a good discount. In the first guesthouse it was 350kDong (too much!), so I just went back out and went looking next door. The lady came back out and all of a sudden said 200kDong. Okay then, let's have a look :) Very clean and nice room. After our shower we went for a walk on the rather dirty beach and stopped for an ice (weasel shit?) coffee somewhere on the road, where cows almost came into the shop :). We ended our day with a 'pau bo' and 'com bo' for dinner again.
hey Line, jij hebt haar op je tanden meid.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenZo aanhoudend, maar de aanhouder wint en groot gelijk heb je, goed gedaan. Enjoy the rest to come, groetjes aan jullie beiden, chantal
Hey toeristen, ondertussen door de wol geverfde.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenGoed gedaan Line en ik zie je al staan beven van pure verontwaardiging.Is toch iets waar ik het moeilijk mee zal hebben,steeds op je hoede moeten zijn om niet afgezet te worden.
Weasel coffee is vermoedelijk die allerduurste koffie ter wereld(denk aan coffeeshop in Leuven)
Was hij zo lekker als beweerd?Geniet, kus knuf
Mams Mieke
Die uitspraak ken ik niet mama :)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenJa, op je hoede zijn moet je wel zijn, maar dat leer je wel. Je leert na een tijd wel hoeveel iets kan/mag zijn, als je het meer is, dan start de onderhandeling :)
Die weasel koffie is idd de hele dure, maar we hebben net gelezen op internet ergens dat het hier in Vietnam de artificial weasel koffie is. Door de fabriek nagemaakt :) In indonesie is hij bijvoorbeeld wel echt. Hij is zeer straf... We hebben enkel de ice-coffee gedronken en dat is een espresso met een beetje condensed milk. Straf spul, maar wel goed.
Xxxx