Monday, July 27, 2009

Vietnam - Central coast Da Nang to Hoi An


We took a plane (Jetstar) to Da Nang to avoid a 21h bus ride.. the central coast is beautiful.. and although we were really lucky with the rain season so far, it is nice to be back on the beach... we settled down between Da Nang and Hoi An at a small Backpacker called Hoa's place. A well known secret so to say, in all guides but still a bit off the way and therefore unique since 1970... A place you just want to stay.. beer is copld an cheap and everybody just chills... nice..



Hoi An actually just started to enchant us... a beautiful little charming town, almost like everything would be the old city. A place know for its laterns/lamps, scooter free center and many tailors who almost will tailor you everything...
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Vietnam - HCMC scooter madness


And I thought Barcelona or Granada was bad... this town is chaos... there are no rules... but millions of scooters..



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Vietnam - HCMC Kabelsalat





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Vietnam - HCMC food



At "quan an ngon" they took the 40 best street cooks/kitchen and offered them a fixed salary. Really good food in a nice location.

Generally, Vietnam is all about food so far anyway. Pho whatever at Hoas Pho \, supposed to be the best Pho in town (vietnamese soup made of beef)

Eggs! Berlin Katerfruehstueck!!

Different eggs! These contain halfway born ducks, the eggs were developped so far, that they contain the fetus of a duck.. speciality? we refused!!

Vietnam - HCMC Street impressions


Main Backpacker street in HCMC, Pham Ngu Lao. We stayed in Linh Linh Hotel and had some real nice city time.
Met ERic King from Esade by accident and went out big time Barcelona/Berlin style till 6am breakfast time...



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Friday, July 24, 2009

Check pics on blog

hello all facebook friends,

even though facebook normally pulls the pics from our blog, it sometimes doesn't seem to pull them all over - so check the blog every once in a while if you're interested (katiandmattes.blogspot.com).

hugs and all from saigon, k&m*

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Vietnam - Mekong Delta Food

the first ca phe sua da we ever saw - that is an espresso shot with sugared condensed milk filled with ice cubes. we live off it by now :-) funky how we makes it on his little floating bar by the way

a restaurant on the river - and where we had our first pho bo! (beef broth with veggies and noodles and breakfast here)


a typical rain season day - sun, clouds, 15min downpour, sun again
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Vietnam - Mekong Delta The Team


Charlotte, Vince, Guide (in the back:)) Mattes and Kati (behind the camera)


Vince eating Pho


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Vietnam - Mekong Delta Local Kids




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Vietnam - Mekong Delta Floating Markets

bananas!





crazy fishing net




Vietnam - Mekong Delta Boats


She's selling baguettes in here little vitrine (they have lotsa yummy French bread and pastries here in the South)


and they row with that crossed way you can see at the back
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