15th Dec - Yeah! Sight seeing! Finally!

This mornin, when I woke up, the weather was just beautiful!Weather was not too hot, and not too cold. When I awoke, everybody was still asleep, except for the family members of the host. All of them had already left the house for school and work by 7am. And so,,, I just walked around the compound of the house, enjoying the fresh air and the crowing of chickens.

Suddenly, the juniour (the host) invited me out for a walk around the residential area. Then we came across her high school. Female students aged 16-18 wore their traditional costume 'ao yai' to school. Ohhh.. all of them looked so attractive in their silky 'ao yai'.

At about 10am, we went sight seeing around the island. The first place we visited was the Statue of Jesus on top of a mountain. Again, we had to climb for half an hour to reach the foot of the statue. "Ahh.! This is not so bad! " , I thought. (The last time I climbed, I had to climb for 3 hours just to reach the peak. )


Then, we climbed into the statue of a height of 36metres. and reached its shoulder. The wind was so strong, that we could almost feel the statue vibrating a little.

This is the view from the shoulder of the statue of Jesus.

The figure on the left depicts the 'stength' of the wind. Even this tree had to bend 10 degrees... As we stood on the shoulder of the statue, we felt as if the wind would blow us away. We fought hard to stand firm on the ground.


At 3pm, we visited the pagoda, near the fishing villages. The flowers there were especially bright! Take this flower for example. In Malaysia, though we have this kind of flower, but its colour is not as bright as this. I swear! This place is like Genting Highlands!

The grounds of the pagoda were big! There were so many places for Buddhists to worship!

This is the magnificent view of the fishing boats at one of the pagodas.

A rare, red insect I spotted on a rock.


One of the Pagodas.









In the night, we went to karaoke to celebrate our last night at Vung Tau. Ahhh.. In Vietnam, the karaoke outlets serve all the sour fruits (eg. grapes, apples,small sour cherries, guava, etc) to the 'singers'.

***Sour fruits are supposed to make you sing better and make you sound sweeter, so you won't croak like a frog. heheheh!

I absolutely enjoyed myself that night! I have never enjoyed singing so much! That was the day I decided that "Hey! Singing is fun after all!" .. I went to bed that night, amazed by the fact that I had indeed loved singing ...