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Published: December 17th 2008
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This is a Typical View in Vietnam, there is some nice sceanry shame the weather was rainy. Today I am travelling to Saigon on the train it is 31hrs 2 nights and one full day. I am sharing my 4 bed cabin with 2 50/60 year old Vietnamese with a young I assume grandson of about 4 or 5. They don’t speak English but from what we can communicate they have been visiting there children who work in Hanoi, they live in the suburbs of Saigon.
During the day I played with the child and communicated with the man, we traded some money, I think he was happy to get some US Dollars…I’m not sure why but he seem to want his wife to change all her Vietnamese Dong for my dollars, I only changed 6 dollars with them. I think at one point he was trying to convince me to take his grandson to live with me in London while trying to convince his grandson that it was a good idea, I did not accept the offer, just tried to explain if he studied hard maybe he could get there himself one day. Near the end of the day the man was trying to get me to come and stay with him in Saigon, I had to
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View of the Train as we travel though Vietnam. explain that I had a hotel booked.
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Julia
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Great experience - I wonder if this changed your views of Vietnam.