Vung Tau City (Viet Nam)-Sept 2014

Home away from home!!!
Today is my 7 days in Vung Tau City .In fact, never heard about this place before i come here( 1 month before i get an information from GOOGLE) .

How time flies ??
I have been to Vietnam few years back ..I have visited  Northern Vietnam( Hanoi-Ha long Bay) when my 1st trip under tour group (traveloguehalong-bay) &(water-puppets-show-in-hanoi)


Do i like this Country?
Let me think....since past 10 years  lots of Investor coming here for Investment and this country occupying coastal area in Indochina( refer the map to now better !!)..so why i'm here for working trip...today is Sunday( the right time to update this blog) ..So far i didn't explore this city much...only sightseeing by bike one round the whole "island"(Peninsular)

Out of my comfort zone?
Nobody like to become a stranger but sometimes we have to a risk  and ready to learn and explore what life might brings...
In fact, i don't understand Vietnamese at all , travelling around with limited people can understand English is quite challenging..i have been to non-speaking English country before like Paris( i studied basic France when i was in University) and Tokyo (but developed country slightly different with developing country)..but after all we must accept the fact that  we have to   become a "stranger" sometimes ..because we don't know when " stranger can become a friend and friend after all become stranger"..it just matter of times ...

About this place??

Ba Ria-Vung Tau was established over 300 years ago with 3 villages.
Vung Tau: its name translates to "anchorage" derived from a time when European traders stopped here in the 14th & 15th centuries.The Portuguese called it SAINT JACQUES the French invaded & renamed it CAP SAINT JACQUES.Located 130km from SAIGON (Ho Chi Minh City).Popular as beach side getaway. The harmony between the natural landscape of the sea and mountains and the urban architecture as well as the famous ,scenic and cultural constructions has given the city great tourist appeal.

Big Mountain is the city’s highest vantage point.
Vung Tau Cit view from Cable Car..

BACK BEACH (EAST SEA )(Indochina Sea)

WHALE REPLICA at BACK BEACH (EAST SEA )(Indochina Sea)

According to Legend, a WHALE washed up on VUNG TAUbeach over 100 ago.The carcass was so gargantuan that fishermen had to wait for the flesh to decompose before being able to pull it to shore and display the bones which came to symbolize the protector of the coast.

SMALL ISLAND? @DUA BEACH

Christ of Vung Tau - Vietnam(Height 32 meters (104 feet) Pedestal 4 meters (15 feet))
GIANT STATUE OF JESUS CHRIST ON  Small Mountain
Considered as one of the TALLEST statues of JESUS in ASIA
8th Famous in the World.. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 
The most famous statue of Jesus .
http://10mosttoday.com/10-most-famous-jesus-statues-in-the-world/

Vung Tau City (Viet Nam)
THE HOLY PLACE OF THE VIRGIN MARY ON BIG MOUNTAIN

THE IMPERIAL HOTEL: 5 STAR HOTEL @VUNG TAU CITY

the Binh Minh Cable Car Resort, just up the hill from Vung Tau’s Front Beach

the Binh Minh Cable Car Resort, just up the hill from Vung Tau’s Front Beach.

STATUE PARK @VUNG TAU CITY

Vung Tau’s Front Beach

 

VIETNAMESE SIGNATURE  FOODS??

Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup,
or Pho

Vietnamese Mutton Hot Pot

Tagline: HOME AWAY FROM HOME!!
I like this tagline and many MALAYSIAN stay here..

CAFE SAMBAL: PORK FREE @PETRO HOUSE
WHERE YOU CAN FIND TEH TARIK MALAYSIA

IN FACT, VUNG TAU city located at PENINSULAR (Southern-Coastal Vietnam)

SELFIE +Vung Tau City 

Managed to captured my SELFIE ..

while I'm here..since this trip is not a vacation trip so my time was so limited...

SELFIE@PETRO HOUSE during breakfast.

FUTSAL SOCCER  WITH LOCAL PEOPLE
#Managed to score 1 goal even my stamina very weak #can't beat local people they
can play 2 hours non stop#even don't understand their language but SOCCER is Universal Language#

SELFIE @VUNG TAU CITY STREET ON MOTORBIKE

SUNDAY :VIET NAM NEWS(21st Sept 2014)

                                                          CHICKEN ???

USEFUL INFORMATION:

Please bring your own FIRST AID Kits

Select service providers that carry the title

"TRUSTED addresses of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Tourism"

(Taxi , Shops, Restaurants, Souvenirs Shop, FOREX Counter etc)

# should not buy souvenirs from  the streets vendors

#  go to restaurant/business premise with  PRICE LISTS

#common sense advice ( don't trust stranger)

  

TRANSIT @SAIGON( HO CHI MINH CITY) before departed to Kuala Lumpur

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE..

20 June 1970:Suddenly I recall a line from a poem:Now immense sea and sky Oh, uncle, do you understand this child’s heart…No, I am no longer a child. I have grown up. I have passed trials of peril, but somehow, at this moment, I yearn deeply for Mom’s caring hand. Even the hand of a dear one or that of an acquaintance would be enough.Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me. 

Excerpts from a Vietnamese doctor's wartime diaries
Tram’s diaries begin in April 1968 when she’s 25 and several months into her first post-medical school job, chief physician at a field hospital in central Vietnam. The Tet Offensive is raging; though her hospital is a civilian clinic, she treats mainly soldiers. Sometimes she walks for miles through the rugged terrain to care for wounded fighters. Her duties also include training new health practitioners. The last entry is June 20, 1970, two days before she is killed by U.S. soldiers.