Bailey in Bucheon: Phu Quoc, Vietnam

Bailey in Bucheon: Phu Quoc, Vietnam:

The link above is the blog post from my friend Chris Bailey. She is a very talented blogger and her post on Phu Quoc is better than anything I could ever put together on it.

There are a few things I'd like to say about the place though. Starting with trying to leave HCMC. After getting into an argument (cough _ _ _ _ _-  _ _ _ _ cough) with the Vietnam Airlines people at the airport for an hour because they bumped us to a later flight, we finally arrived on the tiny island of Phu Quoc. Our small beach resort was called Amigos and amigos we found. Justine, Scho, Chris, and B had gotten there the day earlier.

Backing up a bit. In the Phu Quoc airport, we met some Koreans who had taken the same flight as us. Friendly as hell (obviously), they also had something that just made us smile. The group was about 6 adults and 3-4 children and they had a bag of kimbap with them! For those of you who didn't just smile, kimbap is the fishless, Korean cousin of sushi rolls. It generally comes with spam (or canned tuna.....sorry, not entirely fishless then), egg, carrot, pickled radish, some sauce, and some other stuff. The point being, these Koreans (and Koreans in general) could not travel without Korean things. And it's not like they had JUST arrived from Korea. They had to at least spend the morning in HCMC because of a lack of direct flights to Phu Quoc. If you're still not smiling about this story, maybe I've just been in Korea too long and know Koreans a little too well (i.e. I'm pretentious). If you're still not convinced, we met a different group of Koreans in a restaurant one of the nights and "talked" (they didn't speak English and we don't speak Korean) to them a while saying things like "anyong haseyo!", "만나서 반갑습니다!", "Seoul!", "kimchi!" "Gyeonggi-do!", "LG Twins!", "mashaseyo!" and "soju!". When they heard "soju!" they busted out a bottle of soju THAT THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM TO PHU QUOC, VIETNAM and GAVE it to us. Koreans. Gotta love 'em. Every single one of 'em.

Anyhow, here are the photos I took while on Phu Quoc. All 5 of them (both my camera and I tried to relax). And enjoy Chris's post. I know I did!

Julie getting massaged

Amigos' beach

Amigos

This is in the airport. EVERY single member of this obviously American family was  tirelessly punching away at a different electronic device. Starting with the girl with the laptop I think it goes, laptop, iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS, iPad, laptop, Blackberry. 7 people in all. Not a single word spoken for at least 2 hours. Dead to the world. Yet very alive cyberly. Call me old-fashioned but yikes.

Getting ready to leave ;(