We met Anh and Tan for breakfast at the restaurant, then we set off for a nearby village. Tan and Anh showed us the traditional village houses, and some new ones which had been recently been built. We saw elephants, pigs, dogs and chickens around the village, and some very sweet children who were delighted when we took a picture of them and showed them. One of the longhouses had a massive duck pen underneath, and when we went over to see them the ducks all ran to us, obviously expecting to be fed!
We had a rest stop at a stunning dam, where we took some pictures and went for a walk to stretch our legs, then we went to a python farm. They had a giant python and a baby, and some scorpions and other stuff. There were also two really cute children who probably got more attention from us than the snakes! We also saw a pineapple farm, which was bizarre - I did not realise pineapples grew like that!
We drove a bit longer, then Anh pointed out a village five aside football match, so we stopped to watch for a bit. We sat on the floor near the road and immediately had a little crowd of about 7 kids sneaking glances. The were giggling and watching us, then one of them came and squatted about a metre away from his friends, towards us. The rest of his friends quickly ran over and joined him, still sneaking glances. Eventually, metre by metre, the whole crowd ended up next to us, pretty much openly staring! At half time, the crowd grew to about 20-30 kids, and some nearby older teens who were too cool to look interested. It was really awkward because we couldn't really communicate so we were pretty much watching them staring at us! As some of the crowd dispersed when the match resumed we got our camera out and showed the kids how to use it, which resulted in some good pictures of the match and some of the ground!
We went to what I think is the biggest waterfall in Vietnam, which was stunning! We wandered around the little rocky coves, which was a bit scary, and took lots of photos.
We arrived at our hotel early, at about 4 ro 4:30, then went for a wander around the town. We stopped at a coffee shop where nobody spoke English and attempted to order coffee from the menu - which we got! Hooray!
We went back to the hotel and met Anh an English guy called Evan and a Vietnamese guy whose name I can't remember and decided to have dinner with them. We drank lots of rice wine, and since Anh and Evan seemed to have had a good start on us, they both became very impassioned with various opposing viewpoints! At one point Evan laughingly called me crazy for being veggie and Anh jumped to my defence and had a go! Evan was smashed and kept bringing up the least neutral dinner conversation topics such as the American War and how westerners see Vietnam as dirty! It was a completely bewildering evening, but a lot of fun.
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