Visited Vietnam 
during the lunar new year and spent around $750 on lucky money 
. At first I was grumpy that I was expected to spend so much on people I don't know, but it made everyone so happy to get it. I started giving out notes to random people who still had to work during the holiday and felt like some rich philanthropist helping the working class. Next time I'll bring a ton and larp as saint helping the poor. 
I was also wearing one of these for the festival, it's called an ao dai. People were staring at me a lot and talking about me behind my back. I don't know much vietnamese but I know the word for 'handsome man' 
. My wife said I can't live in vietnam because my ego will get too big. She is correct.
Also spotted some marseys! Our taxi driver had a bunch of these on his dash.
The festival in downtown Saigon was very pretty
All the districts of Saigon built different displays for the festival. I'm not sure if there was a competition, but I'm sure there was some way of voting for the best display. Apparently last year was even more impressive since everyone's favorite year is the year of the dragon.
Some more photos from around town:
This was the first year that fireworks were legal, so everyone went out and bought some. We were on the 30th floor looking towards the landmark building in the city center for "the display" but when the time came, everyone in the city lit off their own fireworks and created the biggest fireworks display I've ever seen, completely unplanned. It was absolutely incredible. There were fireworks across the horizon in all directions. We tried to take a video but it came out crap, so I had to look one up online:
https://instagram.com/reel/DFZvKSXvQOi/
Anyways, Saigon has some very beautiful parts, but when you travel between them you'll see the poor areas, where people are living in mud huts and thatch roofs. There's also the sprawling slums of recycled and rusty corrugated steel roofs. It's still a very pleasant place to visit for tourists. It's also very cheap to live in the nice areas, and pretty much everyone below the age of 40 speaks okay english, and everyone below 30 speaks good english.
I had a great time. It was fun hanging out with the in-laws and if you're a foreigner (white) then you always get amazing service everywhere you go.
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Somehow this is the best post of the night.
I've never been to Vietnam but almost everything I hear makes me want to visit. How was transit though? I've had third world cab drivers try to scam me more than I can count and I think less of any country where it happens.
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Use an app called Grab. It's like uber, and you'll pay in advance so you won't have to worry about that. The common scams in vn usually involve stealing your credit card information, so I'd scratch off the numbers on your card if you're worried about that.
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Very helpful to know. Thanks king.
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Just use the ride hailing apps where the fares are prepaid
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I usually do and I always regret it when I don't but I keep trying it. In some places rideshares are really unreliable but usually it's my fault honestly.
Usually happens in rural areas I go to hike.
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Idk about rural areas but it's not really a ride share thing in the city
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I'm glad you had fun during Tet holiday.
Please do not come to Hanoi during Tet, it's a ghost town during the 1st - 3rd on the lunar calendar, and it's fricking cold.
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That's good to know, thanks. HCM wasn't quite a ghost down but the traffic was definitely much better. The drive to the airport took 20 minutes instead of over an hour.
Hopefully we can tour the north soon. There's still lots to see, since the furthest north I've been so far was Da Nang.
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There's no in-between for Hanoi, during the 1st to 3rd it will be a ghost town, but during the 4th-6th day the traffic will be fricked because people starts returning from other places to Hanoi.
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Good post. I love Vietnam, most beautiful women in the world.
Did you take the chance to eat grilled scorpions and snakes like all good white tourists?
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Ah crap I forgot to talk about the food. I'll probably do a part 2 then.
Here's mantis shrimp.
I asked her "so how do I eat this?" and she said "I don't know" lmao
We figured it out though, very delicious
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Cobra heart the next time
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I'm constantly surprised how French you are.
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Take it back
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Word cannot be unspoken, past cannot be undone, what was will be, forever.
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Man those shrimps have really gotten to you
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We will mug him next year.
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Tease my wife abt it and she gets annoyed
Teasingly point this out to my wife and she gets annoyed
It's little things, literally everywhere I go.
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#JustBeingWhiteThings
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The fireworks were beautiful!
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Snapshots:
https://instagram.com/reel/DFZvKSXvQOi/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I'm sorry snappy I won't do it again
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You're supposed too go during the New Year festival in spring, thats when shits really poppin off
Trans lives matter
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You should just start knocking up Viet chicks out of revenge for the war
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