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Last blog for Viet nam

On Tuesday we went to some tunnels that the Vietnamese soldiers hid in, in the war. The tunnels are so small. I couldn’t fit in a tunnel they were so small. The tunnels had air holes to go into the real hole so the people could breath. At one point we got to go threw one tunnel that was made bigger so adults and kids could fit. After we went under the tunnel we had some food that the soldiers ate. The food was called cassava it tasted like sweet potato. After we got back from the tunnels we had lunch at a bakery. After the bakery we went back to the room watched tv made a pillow cubby and the we went to a bar and played pool their?. Then we went to have dinner. When dinner was finished we went to an ice-cream shop. I got a rockey road ice-cream. Then we went to the night markets and I bought two hats.

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23/5/16

On Monday we had breakfast in a secret place, sort of secret. After that we had a walk around the city. After we walked around the city and had a look at the statue of Hochiminh  a famous person the the Viet nam and American war. Then we went to a shopping centre. Once we were in the shopping centre we went to a gaming place. The gaming place had all these games. If you put in 100,000VND (6 Australian dollars) you get twenty three coins. You put two or three coins in for a game. After the gaming place this man asked us if we wanted to try some chocolate so we did. The chocolate was the best I’ve ever had but sadly we had to go to get lunch. After lunch we went to a war museum and had a look at American army helicopters, planes and tanks. Once we got inside we had a look at some of the photos and some of the guns that they used in the war. While mum and dad had a look at some of the bad photos brianna and I played in the kids room. After the museum we went to watch the new x-man movie, it was so good, after the movie we had dinner. For dinner we had wood fire pizza, it was yummy.

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Sunday

On sunday we had breakfast then we said good bye to my friend the black eagle. Then we got into the car to drive to the air port. On the way to the air port we hit a motobike but don’t worry nothing bad happed the car only nipped the motobike. Once we got to the airport we checked in and waited for are plane. Once we were on the plane we played are iPads and listened to music then we got of the plane. After we got are bags we took a car to are hotel. Then we got lunch at a food court. After lunch we went back to the Hotel and watched a movie, then we went up a towering to the 49th floor and had a look around the city. Then we walked around for a bit then had dinner.

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Saturday

On Saturday we had a relaxing day we didn’t do much all we did was watch Tv, play iPad,  wander around the markets with dad, eat food at interesting places, go to the Taylor’s and had a look at the moon festival. That is basically what we did all day not much but it was a relaxing day

Friday

On Friday we went to the beach with the other Australian people and I did a backflip off a sun chair. We also went swimming until 11am. Then we moved from An Bang Beach to Hoi An in a taxi.

Once we went into our room we put our bags down and we went to have lunch. After lunch we went to a medicine place because my mum was feeling sick.  We went back to read our books before we could go swimming. When we were swimming mum lied in bed sleeping, she was feeling very sick.  After we went swimming we had a shower and watched TV for 10 minutes then had a look at the lantern festival and had dinner.

After that we wandered around the markets, we had ice-cream on a stick and had a potato on a stick. We then went back to the room to see how mum was and to give her a bread roll. She was still very sick.  Then we went to a place called cargo(a cake place and got a chocolate moose cake and a chocolate double cream cake.

After that we went on a boat ride and placed candles in the lake.  This was to make a wish for good luck.  We then went back to the room and watched rest of Captain America:the winter soldier.

Watch here: My backflip off a sun chair

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Monday to Thursday

On Monday we caught a taxi from Hanoi hostel to the airport, on the we saw the brick man, it was funny because he was on a motobike with bricks on top of him. When we arrived at the airport we got are tickets and waited one hour. In that one hour I did my blog. Then we got on the plane to fly to Danang. In that time I played my iPad and did my blog. When we arrived at Danang we got our bags and look for our driver then we drove to our hotel. We checked into are room then we went swimming for an hour. After that we got changed and had dinner

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On Tuesday we went to the beach from 10am to 12pm. Then we had lunch. After lunch I played my iPad and watched TV for about 2 hours. Then we went swimming again from 3pm to 5:30 pm. Then we had dinner

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On Wednesday we went for a bike ride. The ride was five kilometres which is easy for me to ride. We rode to the markets and had a little look then we looked around the streets. After that we went to a Taylor to make us some clothes, I got a purple and blue T-shirt. Then we had lunch at a little restaurant, the tables and chairs are plastic. After lunch we came back and had a swim and met some Australian people and a boy same age as me. We went swimming together. After swimming we had dinner.

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On Thursday in the morning i met up with the Australians and asked what they were doing  now and they said getting ready for a bike ride. After they left we went swimming in the ocean . After swimming we had lunch. For lunch i had a ham and omelet roll. After lunch my dad had a hair cut and my sister came with him while I watched videos on how to front flip and backflip flat. When my dad and sister got back to the room I watched videos on how to front flip and back flip I also did my blog

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Thursday to Sunday

On Thursday we left Monkey Island and caught the the cruise back to Halong bay then we got back on the bus for four hours and arrived in Hanoi. After that we had dinner, then we caught the over night train to Sa Pa. I woke up about five times on the train, my bed was also squeaky. The beds were comfortable, I was exited to catch the over night train.

On Friday we woke up on the over night train, got off and had an hour drive to Sa Pa. When we got off we went into are room, there where to single beds and one Queen bed (their were animals made up of a towel). After that we went walking for breakfast. On the way three ladies come to ask if we wanted to buy something we said no we were just looking for breakfast, then they should us a food place. The food was so good. Then we went back to the room and played iPad. Then we had lunch. After lunch then we went back to the room and relaxed. Then we had dinner.

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On Saturday we went hiking with local people. We walked about sixteen kilometres through out the whole day. Five hours of hiking to another village from Sa Pa. When we were hiking the ladies made me a horse out of a little tree for me and a love heart out of a tree for Brie. After that we arrived at one of the ladies houses and had lunch. They had a pig a dog and a buffalo and a farm and they lived in a little hut with dirt floor. Lunch was the best bit of the day for me because the food was so good. After that we went walking to another village. Then we stopped at a cafe and had a drink, we also said good bye and thank you to them. Then they gave us a present, they gave me a little hand bag and Brie a purse. After we got back we had dinner than we had a foot massage.

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On Sunday we didn’t do much we woke up had breakfast I had chocolate banana pancake it was so good!!!!! After that we walked around Sa Pa for half an hour then we came back to the hotel and grabbed are bags and walked down to the traveling place, and caught a taxi to the sleeping bus place. The bus went for six hours. While we were on the bus I looked out the window slept for two hours and played my iPad until it was out of charge (it was only 9% charged). When we arrived at Hanoi we took a taxi from the bus to are Hotel. Once we got to are hotel we went up to the top deck and played cards. After that we went to have dinner, we had spring rolls, vegetables, crispy chicken and squid. The squid was my favourite. I recon the bus is better then the train.

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Monday to Wednesday

On Monday we went to Hoa Lo Prison it was interesting how they held people in the prison. The prison was really secure because they had glass on the top of wall and then 5 electric wires. After the prison we went to a cafe I got a smoothie, after the cafe we went to the movies the movie was called Captian America it was a good movie.20160509_121203

On Tuesday we got into a car and drove for four hours when we were driving I saw lightning it looked cool, I also played my iPad and played an animal game (first one to see five animals wins). Then we got to a cruise ship place we went on the Monkey Island Cruise. We first went kaiaking, then we went hiking through a cave and after that we went swimming. It was so fun!!!!!!!!! The cruise has three layers. I jumped off all the layers. The top layer is about seven metres up. I did a front flip of the first layer and back flipped of the little boat next to it.

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On Wednesday we went to monkey island it had ping pong and pool? I also went swimming. When I was swimming I found a really heavy rock I held it behind my head lent back and it would make me back flip it was fun then I had dinner it was yummy. We also went hiking/rock climbing

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Sunday

8/5/16

On Sunday we had eggs, bread, banana and watermelon for breakfast after that we  had a bike ride/taxi bike tour. After that we had lunch we had bun Cha (noodles, meat and little burger patty) I also ate one quarter of a chilly. After lunch we went into a temple they had mini trees ?????? after that we saw a puppet show I couldn’t see very well because all the tall people were in front of me, but it looked like  at one point they were fishing and one of the men caught another person. Then we went back to the hostel. After that we went to a coffee shop my mum got coffee and I got ice-cream. Than my mum and dad had a beer while I had a banana soothe after that we had dinner.image

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Vietnam

Today we woke up at 3:00 am (Nhulunbuy time) to get ready for are five Aclock plane From Darwin to Malaysia it was five hours but luckly we were in business class instead of aconamy class. All we did was eat, watched movies, drank water, played iPad and slept. After we landed we had to go to gate H8 in Malaysia to catch are second flight to Vietnam. We slept, ate, drank water, watched videos and played iPad. Once we got to Vietnam someone took us to are hotel. We than wandered around Hanoi (in Vietnam)

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