We left Ho Chi Minh city on Saturday morning, and after a tour of the Mekong river, we arrived in Hoa An around dinner time. The tour of the Mekong was pretty neat, I opened a coconut with a machete and drank snake wine. The snake wine is different than snake blood. Snake wine is very strong wine that has cobra and other snakes in it for taste. Ours even had a dead raven. We all took a shot of it, and it was horrendous, but an experience nontheless. We also got to hold a giant python and a rack of about a 100,000 bees. After that we listened to some tradition Mekong vietnamese music and tasted queen bee honey, which is the special honey designated just for the queen bee.
We are staying in a Hoa An research center for biodiversity in rural Vietnam, which is right down the road from the middle school we teach/coach at. I am teaching health sciences (sport and health/ the thao va suc khoe) and coaching volleyball.
I even was able to eat some sugar cane right after they chopped it down from the field outside where we stay.
I love it.
Pictures to come soon.
Cheers!
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