Today we ventured up into the northern part of the island with our guide Binh. He was very informative and spoke quite good English so he could explain many things we've been wondering about. The main "ingredients" of the island are--fishing, growing pepper kernals (the spice), making world famous fish sauce and tourism. Binh said tourism arrived to the island perhaps 15 years ago. They are still constructing a good road to the north and the road to the south is mostly still red clay. So the infrastructure is slowly, slowly progressing. I have to say that the beach we swam at today was the nicest I've ever seen--it was absolutely incredible. Today for lunch I had the freshest calamari I've ever tasted--I'm sure it was caught off the restaurant's seawall and/or dropped off by a fisherman this morning. We talked about the politics in Vietnam a bit so Duncan can fill you in on this aspect of the day's adventures. BTM
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| eating the raw black pepper kernals right off the tree |
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| the perfect swim.... |
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| ...at the perfect beach |
p.s. by the way... we did listen to BBC news this morning so we are aware of the unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Russia. Not much different from
The Fall of the Giants (which I'm just finishing) and the rise of the Bolsheviks!!! We are safe and well here.
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