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A love/hate relationship

Written by: Justine Southwick: www.travelwrite.co.nz 10/15/2008 10:00:38 PM
i can’t wait to go back to Vietnam. I lie in bed remembering everything I loved about it last time and I can feel something pulling me back.

Lonely Planet, writing about Southeast Asia, says “Southeast Asia is loud, no doubt about it. The roosters have been crowing all night, the screaming motorcycles have been doing circles around your bed and the guttural call to prayers seems to emanate from next door. It isn’t even noon yet and the temperature has already reached boiling point..” and so it goes on.

The memories that paragraph brings back! It sums Southeast Asia - Vietnam - up perfectly, the noise, the craziness. And yet it doesn’t. For how can mere words capture the smell of noodle soup cooked on a street corner, the sticky heat that no air-conditioning can vanquish and the in-your-face cheeky motorcycle drivers?

Since my first trip there last year, crazy, noisy, stinky, hot, in-your-face, colourful, chaotic and crowded are all words I’ve used to describe Vietnam. But none of them adequately describe how it feels to be in the middle of Saigon’s backpacker district, honking motorcycles puttering past in an endless stream. Only those who have been there could possibly understand. It’s simply one of those places that has to be seen to be believed.

A friend of mine, telling me about Vietnam before my first trip, told me I’d love it and hate it at the same time. I’d want to leave, he said, and never go back. But in the next breath I’d want to stay forever. He was so right. It’s a world of contrasts, Vietnam. Dirty, sticky and overwhelming it may be, but it’s so wonderfully crazy I don’t know how anyone could not fall in love with it.

I can’t wait to go back!

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