Pics of my trip in Thailand and Vietnam (1 Viewer)

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I still have many pics from other destinations after Kuala Lumpur and Bali I stopped by Pattaya, Thailand and Nha Trang & Saigon (or HoChiMinh city - my home town) in Vietnam. I have been to Thailand and Saigon a couple times recently so I didn't take much new sight-seeing pics rather than food

Pattaya, Thailand: This is a fun place to stay. Everything is cheap and great service here (you can get massages here for only $5-10/hr!)
Some "interesting" food here:
Grasshopers, crickets, caterpillas:

beetles or roaches?

I like their seafood on the beach - cheap - coupe dollars for a grilled squid, or 10 jumbo shrimps, crabs:

Night street vendors nearby the beach:

I tried this place - you can get as much vegies as you want to put into your soup bow - and all that costs ~$1!

Xcite Night Club in Pattaya - awesome and huge nite club, has great live music performance on the stage.

The new Bangkok airport:

 

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Nha Trang City, Vietnam: I haven't stopped by this place for more than 15yrs since I left Vietnam back then. It has changed so much and developed to a popular tourist place nowadays.

The beach:

Beach coffee/drink bars:

Nha Trang's symbol and a unique rare wood -Lignum Aquilariae. A type of herb that's super expensive (~$1000/ 1lb!)

College students in traditonal dresses ("Ao Dai")::

Lunch w/ friends:

Seafood dinner: great seafood here. All these food pics taken by my cell phone so the pics are a liitle blurred.

"Nem nuong" - a special chared grilled pork/shrimp patty in Nha Trang: so delicious:

 

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Nha Trang city - cont'd:

Po Nagar Temple, 7th century (temple of the "Cham" people - a minority in Vietnam)

No protective harness on scaffold

top view from the temple to the nearby river/bridge:

Hand made bag by the Cham people

Long Son Temple (has the largest Buddha statute in Nha Trang)

A 150 steps to see the statute:

 

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Vin Pearl Island Resort & Water Park (20 min from Nha Trang city):
I took the cable car to the island - it claimed the longest cable car in the region (it does take a while

View from the cable car:

 

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Whale Island Resort, 2 hrs from Nha Trang city: my favorite stop. I was surprised at how nice the island was - clear water, the cool bungalows right on the water, plenty of reefs (especially SPS) ~40 ft from the beach!
And to top it off, it's so darn cheap: $27/nite for the bungalow, $15/day for full service food (breakfast/lunch/dinner), $20/transport from Nha Trang city to the VanPhong bay and boat to the island, only $5 for a ~3hrs motorized boat ride around the bay (for seafood restaurant in other islands, or snorkel trips)!!!

The night/ coffee bar:

cafeteria:

Food - squid salad

Curry soup/bread:

banana cake desert

My "nungalow": beach front, back against the forest, sides covered w/ lust trees:

beach view

room

 

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Snorkel infront of the bungalow:

See more snorkel pics HERE

A boat ride around the island:

I did a forest trek to the high rocks of the island. The surrounding view from this island was awesome:

Forest trail:
Starting point:

Getting rougher:

Butterflies on the way:

On the way back to Nha Trang city:

back to where we started:

 

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Saigon, Vietnam: lots of nice restaurants and coffee bars

"Quan Ngon" restaurant

'banh xeo'

spring rolls

banh beo

banh bot loc and nem nuong

pho

my order - banh canh & banh xeo

"Muoi Tieu Chanh" (meant salt/pepper/lemon) restaurant - an upscale restaurant:

ca tim

mushroom

crab cake - so darn delicious!

sweet sour seafood hotpot

"Thanh Da" restaurant:

Fish hotpot: the whole fish head was in there

Boiled whole chicken

"De Nhat" grilled seafood restaurant:
Grilled shrimp w/ vermicelli:

seafood hotpot

A coffee bar in Saigon:

visiting a friend's farm house:

drying the rice seeds:

visting a friend's house w/ interesting design:
kitchen

cool ceiling styles in diff rooms:

so many darn stairs

 

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Japan airport (on the flight back to Houston):
Nice art works:

Intesting toilet - has automatic 'warming' seat, and also automatic/control 'rinsing". There are options on the controller like shower stream, jet streams for rinsing once started, u better not stand up or u will flood the floor

and their traditional one - wierd too