Here's a video of us dancing with the German and English tourists last night. There may have been alcohol involved.
We are on our way home. It is going to take close to 36 hours for me to get back to Connecticut. It's 3 flights with a long layover in Saigon.
We met our friend Dung Nguyen for lunch in Saigon during our long layover.
Time for the Trip Awards
Best Hotel - The Peninsula, Bangkok (Angela), Avani, Laos (Chris and Trevor).
Best Pool - The Peninsula. The Park Hyatt pool lost points for being much too warm. Chris did try them all.
Best Hotel Staff - La Veranda, Phu Quoc with a shout-out to Phong. In second place, Chris votes for Cambodia and Trevor votes for Laos.
Best Boat Ride - The one that had gin & tonics (Chris), Mekong river to the cave (Trevor), the one across the reservoir to dinner (Angela)
Best Hotel Breakfast - The Peninsula (Angela and Chris), The Park Hyatt (Trevor because he is weird)
Best Guide - Pang in a landslide. Shout-out to Vietnam Stacy and Danny
Best Bar - Le Jardin at La Veranda
Best Meal - Street food Vespa tour (Chris and Angela), Villa Chandara (Trevor)
Favorite Food - Morning Glory (Angela), Clams on the Vespa Tour (Trevor and Chris)
Best Activity - Angkor Wat (Chris), Vespa (Angela), Biking at the temples (Trevor)
Best Weather - Phu Quoc
Best Temple that is not Angkor Wat - Banyon a.k.a King’s Palace a.k.a The One with all the faces (Chris and Trevor), The Buddhist Temple in the jungle (Angela)
Best Coconut Pancake - Laos (Chris and Angela), Cambodia (Trevor)
Best Drink - Pina Colada at Le Jardin at La Veranda
Best Vietnamese Coffee - Coffee shop that we don’t know the name of (Trevor), Bird Park (Angela)
Best 2-wheeled excursion - As a reminder, there was the bikes at the temples, the ox cart, the Vespa tour and the vintage sidecars. And the unanimous winner is Vespa
Most Disturbing Tour - I’m going out on a limb here and saying it was the one with multiple demonstrations of rusty spikes impaling appendages.
Best Airport - Siem Reap, Cambodia. It’s brand new.
Favorite Immigration Process - Cambodia was quickest but Vietnam had the snarkiest officer
Favorite Country - Laos (Chris), Cambodia (Trevor and Angela)
Favorite Country by Food - Laos with Vietnam in second place
Best Conversation with someone who is not Chris, Angela or Trevor - Trevor and Danny on opposition politics. Second place goes to Phu Quoc Danny.
Best Chef - The 2 ladies at Villa Chandara
Most unusual food - Red ants and beef, Fermented Fish (Cambodia)
Would we come back?
We would all definitely return to Phu Quoc to get away from it all and relax for a few days.
Trevor said he’d go back to all the places since there are always more temples to see. Angela and Chris think there are too many other places to see and not enough time.
We are on our way home. It is going to take close to 36 hours for me to get back to Connecticut. It's 3 flights with a long layover in Saigon.
We met our friend Dung Nguyen for lunch in Saigon during our long layover.
Time for the Trip Awards
Best Hotel - The Peninsula, Bangkok (Angela), Avani, Laos (Chris and Trevor).
Best Pool - The Peninsula. The Park Hyatt pool lost points for being much too warm. Chris did try them all.
Best Hotel Staff - La Veranda, Phu Quoc with a shout-out to Phong. In second place, Chris votes for Cambodia and Trevor votes for Laos.
Best Boat Ride - The one that had gin & tonics (Chris), Mekong river to the cave (Trevor), the one across the reservoir to dinner (Angela)
Best Hotel Breakfast - The Peninsula (Angela and Chris), The Park Hyatt (Trevor because he is weird)
Best Guide - Pang in a landslide. Shout-out to Vietnam Stacy and Danny
Best Bar - Le Jardin at La Veranda
Best Meal - Street food Vespa tour (Chris and Angela), Villa Chandara (Trevor)
Favorite Food - Morning Glory (Angela), Clams on the Vespa Tour (Trevor and Chris)
Best Activity - Angkor Wat (Chris), Vespa (Angela), Biking at the temples (Trevor)
Best Weather - Phu Quoc
Best Temple that is not Angkor Wat - Banyon a.k.a King’s Palace a.k.a The One with all the faces (Chris and Trevor), The Buddhist Temple in the jungle (Angela)
Best Coconut Pancake - Laos (Chris and Angela), Cambodia (Trevor)
Best Drink - Pina Colada at Le Jardin at La Veranda
Best Vietnamese Coffee - Coffee shop that we don’t know the name of (Trevor), Bird Park (Angela)
Best 2-wheeled excursion - As a reminder, there was the bikes at the temples, the ox cart, the Vespa tour and the vintage sidecars. And the unanimous winner is Vespa
Most Disturbing Tour - I’m going out on a limb here and saying it was the one with multiple demonstrations of rusty spikes impaling appendages.
Best Airport - Siem Reap, Cambodia. It’s brand new.
Favorite Immigration Process - Cambodia was quickest but Vietnam had the snarkiest officer
Favorite Country - Laos (Chris), Cambodia (Trevor and Angela)
Favorite Country by Food - Laos with Vietnam in second place
Best Conversation with someone who is not Chris, Angela or Trevor - Trevor and Danny on opposition politics. Second place goes to Phu Quoc Danny.
Best Chef - The 2 ladies at Villa Chandara
Most unusual food - Red ants and beef, Fermented Fish (Cambodia)
Would we come back?
We would all definitely return to Phu Quoc to get away from it all and relax for a few days.
Trevor said he’d go back to all the places since there are always more temples to see. Angela and Chris think there are too many other places to see and not enough time.
Who knew Chris had such fabulous rhythm and dance moves!💃🏻
ReplyDelete