Changi Airport - Singapore Airlines! to Hanoi (watched Stomp the Yard and Norbit).

Took a bus to this Agriculture University. Yes, they learn about agriculture = cone hats!

Had this lecture. If you look closely, they gave us a "warmly welcome" (: Indeed, the classroom was very warm...

Scenery was teletubbie-like.

We had to like, wade in the mud.

Took the bus to some water puppets show. Was quite cool but I didn't understand a word of the chingchongdingdong.

Had dinner at some chinese restaurant. Then went back to the hotel. Knock outtttttt hahah.

Took bus to some local market.

THIS is a petrol kiosk.

Cute kids :D And like half of TingFANG hahaha.

Took the bus to Mai Chau village.

Had lunch at the guest house we were staying in.

Went to walk around the village and the pretty rice fields.

More cute kids :D

OMG I LOVE this girl. I have a picture with her but I look so bad, like, beyond-photoshop bad.

Did river studies in the muddy muddy river /:

Had dinner. SO MANY INSECTS AT NIGHT. Then we walked in the dark to some field. There was like this campfire there. Watched the villagers do some Vietnam dances. They were soo nice, they gave us ike handmade friendship bands. Haha I used to do lots of them when I was twelve. Now I guess I don't really have the patience and time anymore..

Went back to the village house to sleep on the mattresses.

Went for a really loooong trek and had to climb this hill. Psst I gave up halfway :D

Cute puppies :D

Left the village and went to HEP dam.

Statue of Ho Chin Minh or however you spell his name.

Had dinner and went back to hotel to sleep.

Went to a war museum.

BEST PART OF THE TRIP: Halong Bay! The scenery, the wind, everything, was really great.

The junk (bad name for such a pretty ship) brought us to Hung Sung Sot (a cave).

The cave was prettyyy and so was the scenery outside. And the cave inside was like dark and cool. Its all limestone.

The bunks on the junk.

Junk dropped us at some niceniceniceee beach.

We were supposed to do environmental cleaning but some other group beat us to it soo.. :P

Everyone was like screaming when the guy picked the crab up. And it looks like the same crabs, yeah CRABSS, we ate for lunch.

Haha I don't care how unglam this is.

Dinner that night on the junk was fancy.

I love this picture. It was lucky! Like pictures without flash are really dark, but pictures with flash are really fug, but this one was taken when someone else's camera flashed :D So I get the best of both worlds.

Then yeah, bed time.

The next morning we were supposed to wake up at like 5am to watch sunrise. But the sun was like blocked behind some mountain. So yeah.

After breakfast, went to some sea cave.

Lagoon (GEOG).

Had lunch then left lovelyyy Halong Bay /:

Went SHOPPING. Bought lotsssssss of things. But I still feel that we weren't given enough timee. Oh and I bought this coffee from this shop, NOT stall (I wouldn't dare). I think its meant to be like Starbucks sort of thing because the cup was 32000 dongs which is actually the average price for a small coffee. But still. The coffee tasted like trash.

Then we had some sort of a trishaw ride thing. It was an hour long. Seriously. I tipped the guy 1 USD hahaha.

Toured the city.

Bumpy rideee. And the traffic in Vietnam sucks. Like, motorcycles in every direction on the same road. Yeah andand I saw an entire family of four sitting on the same motorbike. Hahaha. Omg and I also saw three grown up guys sitting on a motorbike. Haha! They looked gay.

Had dinner at some buffet place.

Went back to hotel to sleeeeeeep.

Went to this Ho Chi Minh momument thing

And that was the last place before we went to the airport and byebye Vietnam /:

Yeah then Singapore Airlines again (: back to Singapore. Watched umm Wild Hogs! Haha. And I wrote earlier, my dad thought the plane was landing at 8pm! I called him at 6pm and he was like, "Huh? Landed already ah!"

Anyway, I miss Vietnam lots! I knowww everyone thinks its dirty and poor and their currency DONG sounds weird and its freaking 10 000 dongs to 1 SGD but actually, it can be a really nice place (Halong bay!) and seeing like the people on the boats trying to sell stuff to you on the junk is really, well... I dont know. And the dong thing? Most of them accept USD so yeah.

Another about Vietnam is the simple life. In the Maichau village, its like, you realise how stress-free they are. While in Singapore, there's always something for you to do. And when you don't have anything to do, you start feeling guilty and you ask rack your brains, searching for something, anything, to do.

Looong post. To sum up, the trip was better than I expected (:

Okay, I still have to update about YE retreatttt.