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Monday morning Jeff and I crept out of Casa de Andrew and John not to wake the boys from their slumber. The place was a complete hole, and random neighbors were coming back to retrieve bowls and plates from the night festivities (take note of this comment for later). As bad as we felt leaving it a mess and as much fun as we were having in debaucherous Saigon, it was time to leave. The boys and the whole couchsurfing experience definitely made Saigon such a memorable place for us!

At Ease with the Easy Riders

Casey Lary
2007-04-21 23:11:26

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masterpieces in Spain. To add to the similarities, like the Sagrada Familia, it wasn't done! The actual name of the house is the Hang Nga Guesthouse and Art Gallery. You can actually stay in the "Alice in Wonderland-esque" rooms. A big fan of the bear room if you can guess why. I would like to point out that Jeff and I really had no idea what we were going to do or see, putting our lives and itinerary in
the hands of Lam and Hai.

The rest of the day was spectacular. Although these roads were traversed by many people going on the same Easy Rider voyage, it felt like we were forging a new path never before traveled by others. It felt like we were the only ones on the roads in the Central Highlands. We made many stops along the way. The Central Highlands have been turned into a huge agricultural area for southern Vietnam. What I thought was going to be crazy jungles and huge trees, was a land very much changed to farm all kinds of crops- flowers, all vegetables, LOTS of coffee, mushrooms, fruits...you name it they had it. The production of silk is also a big industry. I think the Central Highlands supplies more than half the food for HCMC. We stopped along the way at all these places, learning how they were produced. My personal favorites were the flower farms, holding future silk scarves (ie the actual worms), the mushroom huts, and being coffee season, seeing coffee laid out to dry EVERYWHERE. Every driveway, open field, sidewalk, even out into the street, was coated with layers of drying coffee beans. This
was absolute Heaven for me- Vietnamese coffee is incredible. Jeff doesn't even drink coffee and liked V-coffee. Some of the best I have ever had! We also stopped at the Tiger waterfalls. We passed through numerous villages along the way. All the school children waved and yelled hello at us at the top of their lungs. I felt like a celebrity riding through those towns. Rules are also a bit more lenient up in the countryside. More than once ...