This blog by Lucas: Part 3 of the Vietnam 60th/30th birthday bash was HaLong Bay - a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When you're unemployed and wandering the world, you tend to find time to look up little bits of information that you feel like you should know, but ignorantly or otherwise don't, like what the acronym UNESCO really stands for beyond United Nations. The answer is "United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization." We've also learned how the moon effects the tides (its closer, so the gravitational pull is stronger than the sun's), many 2-letter words that are actually in the Scrabble dictionary (oh, er, eh, ah, ex, yo, oy, etc...), why Burma is now called Myanmar (see previous TravelBlog), the difference between an alligator and a crocodile (different jaw shape / teeth / salt glands
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