This morning in place of our language or culture classes, because unfortunately those are over, we went on a site visit to the Cat Lai Terminal. This terminal is the biggest deep sea port in all of Vietnam, and it accounts for almost 50% of all imports and exports from Vietnam and over 85% of…

“Deals are my art form. I like making deals, preferably big deals.” Yesterday was a slower day but today began with an exciting trip to the Ben Thanh market to buy plenty of souvenirs as well as “practice” our Vietnamese language skills. Essentially we were able to go in and haggle prices down from normal…

Sorry for the crappy joke in the title, but it is an indicator of what today’s site visit was focused on. Today, after the most amount of time that we have been allowed to sleep in for on the entire trip, we left for a site visit to VinaCapital investment firm. Yes, today’s schedule was…

Today was our Cu Chi day trip, and it was certainly an eye opening experience as to how history can be portrayed from two different sides. I will explain this more below.  So our day began with yet another early start because we had a 3 hour bus ride to the Cu Chi area. The…

So today was without a doubt my favorite day in Vietnam thus far and let me, in a very long blog post (sorry Brian and Moriah), tell you why! Today we visited the Mekong Delta, which as most people know is the largest body of water that flows through Vietnam as well as 5 other…

Today began like most days with an early wake time for our hotel breakfast, followed by a guest lecturer and then our Vietnamese language class. At this point in the week I am going to need to try new “breakfast foods” at the hotel buffet because I have been eating the same breakfast each day…

So today was by far the most relaxing and tourist oriented day of our trip, at least thus far. We had an early start to the day with a 6 am wake up time, but that was because of our 2 hour bus ride to Vung Tau which is the top tourist area near Ho…

As another day in Vietnam comes to an end I am taking some time to write my blog before a casual night out with our UEF friends. We are having a calm relaxing night tonight because tomorrow is an early morning because its a 2 hour bus ride to the beach for our beach day!…

Today is Tuesday May 9th and we just finished up all organized activities for the day so I have decided to write this blog in the short time before our UEF friends take us out to dinner. Looks like dinner tonight is at the Korean Barbecue, which from my understanding is like a Korean Hibachi…

What a busy, exciting and fulfilling first day! We just got back to the hotel about an hour ago and everyone had some free time to pull out cash from the atms, buy water, and (most importantly) shower! I can officially confirm it is very, very hot and humid here. Anyway, today was a busy…