{"id":7812,"date":"2023-06-11T19:53:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:20:00","slug":"vietnam-primul-soc-si-o-droaie-de-curiozitati-partea-a-2-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2023\/06\/vietnam-primul-soc-si-o-droaie-de-curiozitati-partea-a-2-a\/","title":{"rendered":"VIETNAM (2) \u2013 the first shock and a wave of curiosity!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\nam crazy: I took 5,909 pictures and movies on my vacation in Vietnam!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’d\nsay that I went to make a documentary for Discovery, not a trip for my birthday\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nwell, it was a new place, I was curious to see, to hear, to learn a lot, and so\nthe camera and the phone became the extension of my hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwent to Vietnam in the spring, when they say it’s the perfect time to visit.\nTheir peak season is considered to be from November until April. In May it\ndecreases, as the hot weather is already coming. Then there is no way to go. Unless\nyou like to live in a stove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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source: nationsonline.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam\nlooks like a tongue on the map, the eastern coastline having 1,650 km from\nnorth to south!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nsuch a long distance between the two extremes, the country has two types of\nclimate: the north of Vietnam enjoys 4 seasons. Winters here have temperatures\nof about 10 degrees Celsius. When it gets down to 7 degrees they close the\nschools \ud83d\ude42 Because, if they have no problem in dealing with the heat and\nhumidity, the cold is their enemy. (Several Vietnamese I met during this\nvacation told me that they had never seen snow.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe south, however, there are only 2 seasons: the dry and the wet. Or, as\nsomeone said: very hot and creepy hot hihi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nencountered a heatwave in the south, like our summer heat when you really feel\nlike taking off and running to the North Pole! I walked in a 36 degrees Celsius\nheat, which felt like 42! Well, that wasn’t a walk, it was a melting slide…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe north of Vietnam, on the other hand, I found a perfect spring, even cool in\nsome of the evenings. And I was surprised when, feeling the need to turn on the\nheat in the hotel room, I realized that the air conditioner does not have a\n“warm” option. They use the air conditioning only for cooling. They\nhave enough heat…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a small pot with a small bonsai…<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My\ntrip started with 5 days alone, in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, and then I\njoined a gadventures <\/strong>tour, a company that I had no idea they existed\nuntil the time of booking and that I stuck to them because of the lack of time\nto I organize everything myself, as I usually do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas a kind of… an act of courage on my part, because I have never been on a\nvacation with a group of foreign citizens that I didn’t even know the countries\nthey come from! But I said that I have to get out of my comfort zone…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ndon’t know how comfortable they felt when I was showing off that I already knew\nthe capital, having 5 days in advance \ud83d\ude42 I was informed and relaxed, but the\nfirst contact I had with Vietnam was downright shocking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HANOI<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I got dizzy!!! This happened to me the first day and it lasted for two or three days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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