9/4/2017 1 Comment Some r&r...It is day 7 in Vietnam. After a week of exhausting work, we finally had a weekend break. But how was it already weekend? The first week was already gone, and the extremely hyped trip is one week close to its end. Today we had the opportunity to travel around the country as tourists, so our first stop was the Bai Dinh Pagoda. The place is very well known in South Asia because it contains around 500 statues representing Buddha. The complex extends itself forming a rectangle with two divisions. In between each division, a main building with enormous dazzling gold statues. There was also a tower in which it was possible to see the entire complex and the surrounding jungle from above. During the tour, we lost at least two kilograms by walking up and downstairs. When we finally crawled into the bus, we went to a restaurant in which we were able to eat 'relics' we couldn't find anywhere in Vietnam: ketchup and natural coconut water. After the banquet, we had a boat tour around labyrinths of caves and stony mountains in Trang An. It was amazing how beautiful and preserved the nature is here. Not a piece of trash could be seen. In the evening, we were all excited to finally eat in a restaurant that served "western food". We were eating Vietnamese food in a place called Sweden while listening to Brazilian music. Really weird. As far as western food, it had nothing.
Tomorrow, we are planning to go to the beach. And for a brazilian student that grew up at the coast and spent almost eight months in swizerland, it is the same thing as saying "we are going to disney world". - Leonardo
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Monica
9/4/2017 11:11:12 am
Leonardo 😊 you make.me smile with That feeling about Disney world ... in that beach day 😊 ... Beach ..waves and sun always clean and joy our spirit. With this experience in HFH you teach us a new way to spend our vacations helping others and learning about others culture. I love how this blog shares each day of hard and beautiful work .. "Bravo" all of you guys 😊
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