1st Day In Vietnam! Ho Chi Minh City Is Intense
I am in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam it's my first time here and check out the traffic here the stereotype about this city seems to be true the traffic is intense honking everywhere motorcycles everywhere this already an adventure just to take a ride through the city and what I see a lot here what really surprises me is most of the local people are wearing long jackets even like gloss on their hands like you can see at my my driver here he also has a gloves and they have long jackets and I I get it they do that because they want to get the sun on there they don't want to get the sun on their skin but wow it is hot here over 30 degrees I'm not sure if I could do that like see all the locals here having uh long jackets hello singtel yeah I'm I'm the only person here riding with just a t-shirt okay even with the bicycle through the traffic here okay I already learned uh two words whenever I'm in a new country I like to learn a few words so the first word I learned is Xin Chao which means a hello and a gum earn which means thank you hello first impressions of the locals here they're smiling a lot seem to be very friendly and welcoming oh and all these motorbikes there behind me wow oh being right here in the middle of the traffic yeah these are already some really nice First Impressions I love it here so far it's literally just my first day so it seems to be pretty organized here always the the cars on the on the left side over there and then this Lane on the right side always for the for the scooters for the motorbikes so it looks a bit like a like chaos at the beginning but I think it's actually pretty organized here okay come on thank you very much how to open this okay thank you very much come on thank you you can buy little birds here on the street oh my god there must be like hundreds of little birds in this little cage here huh how much they are there's nobody here at the moment to sell them also the store here oh they have sugar cane here but nobody here oh hello somebody here oh there's a guy coming hello can I get sugar cane juice sugar cane uh to uh two three one yeah okay I didn't have sugar cane juice fresh for for quite a while actually let's see how he makes it ah oh yeah with this little machine here stick through the machine and then yeah the juice gets squeezed out of the machine or out of the stick I should say and then somewhere there must be like a cup or a glass where the juice is falling into basically probably it's somewhere down here [Music] foreign let's see where the juice is oh this looks really good how much how much how much money do you get [Laughter] I think they want to show 20 000 okay let's see if I have 20 000 car in here 10 20 000. okay oh come on thank you okay let's taste it right away oh this is actually a really really big big cup of sugar cream juice oh very good very good thank you oh she's laughing maybe she also sells the bird are these real birds how much for the for the birds I'm curious how much you have to pay for them for the birds yeah I'm wondering if um maybe you can buy them and kind of release them for good luck that's what they do in Thailand sometimes are one bird twenty thousand and then you the left and fly oh I think that's what they do they they live the release of us so I paid 20 000 and then the birds fly yeah okay okay okay wait I think I have to pay for it okay let's uh set one of these Birds free we can change I get a bird now okay I just bought a bird in Vietnam but I'm going to give this little guy a freedom hello guy oh his heart is beating a lot okay let's see if I can feed it well but that's three three okay bye bye little guy there he goes I bought you Freedom oh okay that was an interesting experience and um is it good luck good luck oh difficult okay yeah I think um maybe someone in the comment section if you know about this maybe you can explain in the comments I think people do it for good luck there's a Temple here as well so I think if you release it in front of a temple or near Temple it's supposed to bring you luck but uh yeah so unfortunately I can't uh free you all guys okay thank you very much I can go inside can I have a look yeah okay thank you thank you come on oh okay oh they have more birds here right so here right in front of the temple you have more birds okay let's see if we can actually have a look at the temple um actually this looks uh Chinese to me there's Chinese writing on top of it so maybe this is a Chinese temple here yeah I guess because yeah China is not far away from Vietnam it's actually bordering in Northern Vietnam because of that I think there will be quite a lot of Chinese people living here in Vietnam and also here in Ho Chi Minh City okay before we continue to explore this interest ing one quick word about internet security I am sure by now you have all heard about VPN services and the VPN is a tool that lets you virtually change the location of your phone or your laptop to basically anywhere in the 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yeah because I see a Chinese characters it's a Chinese temple no no no no good so it's not a Chinese temple because I see on the on the entrance there's Chinese characters it's not Chinese because Vietnamese people are used to use a Chinese communicate to each other in the past Vietnamese also used to have Chinese characters yes oh I didn't know that I learned the first thing already today sure sure let's take a picture sorry sorry I'm so tall yeah oh there's water coming where's the water coming from okay okay how do you say cheese in Vietnam um this is your teacher oh so many so many people joining now how do you say in Vietnam nice to meet you okay nice to meet you thank you bye-bye bye-bye that was a lovely first impression of the Vietnamese people so far very nice hello okay okay um yeah maybe let's have a quick look at the temple as well so I already learned the first interesting thing that the Vietnamese people used to use Chinese characters as well so this is um yeah the characters on top of here which you can see and let's have a quick look inside but I will not talk because I see people doing some prayers there so that's just uh get a quick impression without my voice oh looks nice right these temples are usually very uh impressive quite astonishing to look at and here we have the the two tombstones I guess but there seems to be an important place for the Vietnamese people I also see some some offerings although there are some oranges and some drinks people praying here and this looks also very um astonishing here right like a golden uh yeah what is it a birch standing on top of a of a turtle that is very interesting I would really like to uh to know the meaning behind it if any one of you watching this video can explain please do it in the comment section I'm happy to learn about it actually what I just see check this out this is uh shaped as a as a dragon so they cut the bush so that it looks like a like a dragon here right you can see that the dragon face from the from the front here it looks like his typical um Chinese dragon these dragons that you for example see a Chinese New Year everywhere very unique very cool okay so this random stop turned out to be very interesting and it all started with me drinking some sugarcane juice you know ordering some sugar cane juice oh we have some some street food places here not sure what they are cooking here he's cooking a lot of eggs over there hello I think this is a ban me Vietnamese baguette hello yeah it's very good it's good oh okay maybe we can maybe we can try one of these baguettes here like always it's very famous in Vietnam and you can get it with meat and with more meat and some greens can I get one what do you put on on top of it this is a party I think that's pork and this one pork pork I think it must be part I think they're not understanding me but that's okay but I think it's all pork okay okay okay and uh some vegetables yeah okay yeah let's see what happens happy to try how much 25. ready myself okay okay we have a little bit of chili now to say no chili please get the full taste experience here wow okay yeah okay okay looks very good yes okay oh that's okay that's okay I will eat here I will eat yeah yeah okay okay come on thank you very much I can sit here yeah yeah let's get a see if I can just try it if I get right right okay so this is actually a very huge decent bucket check it out and yeah they are left over us from the from the French when the French were here many years ago Vietnam used to be colonized by the French and what they brought to Vietnam are these baguettes and you can still find them as a very popular street food all over Vietnam let's give it a try foreign there's really a decent amount of meat inside together with the with the greens here they had a fresh flavor too the fresh kick to it oh this is amazing wow and check out the big pieces here not sure what it is maybe sausage and I think that's very typical Vietnamese rice smaller than plastic chairs right by the side of the road here and eating bunny have a look at this they are almost more motorbikes here driving through the market then there are people walking through the market that is interesting right check it out oh very interesting Market ah people you seem to be friendly so far that's always a good first impression of a of a new country right but yeah you really have to be careful not to get overrun here by all these uh motorbikes here and people selling uh Seafood here fish hello oh this is a octopus ah he has octopus here they actually look very big and different types of fish here and some Screech oh it looks very good looks very good okay so this is also a clothing Market you can buy all kinds of clothes here probably for a very affordable price um all Romans clothes here so far to be honest I think it's um it's secondhand clothing here which makes them probably even uh more cheap I don't know how much are your t-shirts how much right away like how much how much for the T-shirt I'm just curious to to know how much you have to pay for a t-shirt here or maybe we have to like like this how much Sun oh I don't understand it oh okay maybe we can buy a t-shirt here okay thank you okay one thing I noticed already is um the level of English is uh really low here um if I compare it for example I recently been to the Philippines where the level of English was amazingly High everyone spoke English and here it's a little bit harder to communicate of course that's not a problem I don't expect people to uh to speak English this is uh southeast Asia and not uh not England or the USA or Australia so I of course don't expect people to speak English here so it's absolutely no problem that they don't speak good just that Mia to give you my my first impression here that yeah the the level of English Spoken Here is uh relatively low so you have to find your ways to communicate your way around but hey that's part of the experiences right there's always a way to yeah communicate your way around using your hands or if I really wanted to then I could have used my Google translate now to find out the price but yeah I was not really interested to buy a t-shirt I was just curious how much they they asked for on the market like this actually let me add something to the to the English speaking topic if you remember the the students at the temple they actually spoke really good English so it's a more of the the older generation that doesn't really speak English but if you speak to the younger Vietnamese people they are actually quite okay quite good with English let's see if we can cross the road here with all the motorbikes okay okay this is a busy road here check it out way way more motorbikes than you see cars here that's amazing Lydia has one car here and then like 30 40 50 motorbikes here everyone is driving a motorbike here wow it's amazing this lady just invited me oh is this a park okay actually that looks quite good here we're actually grilled here just by the side of the road oh okay can I can I get one okay let's just try it it looks actually very good it looks very good ah juicy delicious pork here okay um are you gonna can I get no rice no no no just just to me because I just ate if I get I don't eat rice at the moment just curious to try the pork here yeah that's just this yeah okay I just want to try the pork here you have a chair I can sit oh maybe I can sit here oh I can sit down here yeah oh oh check it out I am a one meter 94 guy and then in Vietnam you have these small plastic chairs here but that's okay um also very funny oh this is a authentic experience here yes once again hello actually let's have a look at the barbecue here that looks really good right [Music] and the other pieces are kind of thin so because of that they get um built much faster I guess oh thank you very much oh yeah okay thank you yeah okay so just some some pork here with some cucumbers let's give it a try yeah I'm also walking by here and then the the lady waved at me and said hey come here so she was so inviting that I thought okay that's uh walk a little tray here so she also brought this sauce here not sure what it is maybe vinegar foreign oh thank you come on come on he said welcome to Vietnam oh that's a lovely person I'm getting here oh yeah yeah I can open yeah oh thank you so much thank you very much oh this is lovely that's how you can welcome here as a tourist on your first day in Vietnam [Music] very good yeah thank you oh yeah I make a video about Ho Chi Minh oh this is nothing I would like to know what they're talking about they're talking about camera I make a video about Vietnam oh it would be really nice to be able to uh to communicate with them you know but after here some some stuff with some thoughts from them what is that to drink oh she just brought me something to drink also I'm sure what this is maybe maybe cheese it's cold I don't think it's tea it's something uh something sweet slightly sweet just a little bit sweet maybe something with lemon interesting it's very good actually just brought it so I guess uh might be another gift let's see if I have to pay it at the end but I doubt it they're still enjoying the media she's even bringing me another one oh thank you come here you very much actually now that I finished the first cup I do think it is cheap cold tea but um it's like you know this Rosie flavor like a big Jose and maybe a little bit of lemon interesting combination but definitely delicious how much you get 50. you mean five okay foreign and one thing that I noticed that is a big difference compared to a Bangkok where I'm just coming from everyone on the motorbike is wearing a helmet here you can't see a single motorbike rider without a helmet and in Thailand for example it's more like 50 50 I would say 50 of the people I'm not wearing helmets but here really check it out everyone is wearing a helmet so I'm guessing they are stricter here about the rules of wearing a helmet maybe they unpause the Pines harder you don't wear a helmet but yeah really noticed that also what I'm really noticing here is that the places look very clean we don't have garbage lying around it all looks uh yeah almost like this it's a very clean places the roads are looking good so my first impressions so far of Ho Chi Minh City of Southern Vietnam are really great and yeah I'm going to stay here for a few weeks that's my plan also to leave the city to travel around a bit if you would like to join the journey feel free to subscribe to the channel say healthy stay positive and then see on the next episode ciao guys
2023-03-04 11:54
