Australian tourists tell stories about experiences in Vietnam

Mark Bowyer is the founder of Rusty Compass, a travel website that publishes and shares information and documents about people, places of interest, culture, and cuisine ... These are all in the area. Southeast Asia, where he used to come by any means such as bicycles, walking, motorcycles, and buses.

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He spent a lot of time traveling around Vietnam and Cambodia (since the 1990s). Mark arrived from famous tourist spots to remote rural areas to experience the idyllic life of indigenous people.

The most recent trip of Mark is to the Central Highlands to explore the culture and cuisine ... of the ethnic minority community living here.

On the journey to the Central Highlands by an SUV (a versatile sports car), the first stop is Bang An tower - one of the ancient Cham towers left in the 19th century in Quang Nam province.

Under the drizzle, he followed the winding village roads, flanked by four-level houses to enter the main road leading to Bang An Tower. He observed the bustling scene of locals up and down the road in a brightly colored jacket.

Ancient Cham towers - Bang An tower has a unique architecture with a vertical "linga - symbol of Siva god" built with red bricks dating back to ancient times. The octagonal tower, tapered, tapered contrasts quite clearly with the colors of the nearby houses. The scene here is peaceful and airy.

Mark said: "Bang An tower seems to be taller and narrower than the architecture of the other Cham towers he has ever seen."

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At the end of his first stop, he continued his journey, from the coast of the central provinces to the Central Highlands region along the Ho Chi Minh trail. This is the time for him to visit tourist spots in Kon Tum, meet and chat with indigenous people living in the highlands.

After lunch and rest in Dak Glei town, he stopped at a village in Dak To district to visit, admire the beauty of the communal house, the traditional stilt house of ethnic people. In addition, this place also has a historical vestige of Dak To - Tan Canh border with Vietnam - Laos used to be a landing zone of the US military during the Vietnam War.

He was very excited to chat with indigenous people with his fluent Vietnamese. Even some people here are quite surprised to hear him speak Vietnamese.

Commenting on the farmers, Mark said: "They are very lovely. We sit together and talk happily between the fields, feeling that people are connected in some way. This experience through simple but very memorable ".

The afternoon rays of sunlight passed through the clouds floating in the sky, the journey came nearly 10 hours but he did not feel tired. His view when traveling is to travel to many places, experience many things, which is the most precious thing.

(According to the New York Times)

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