Beachy Beach Time
Trip Start
Sep 15, 2008
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Trip End
Jan 01, 2009
Phu Quoc Island,
Vietnam
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The beaches of Phu Quoc are beautiful and, best of all, nearly deserted. Every 45mins someone might walk by, but most of the day it's just you, the beach, and the waves.
Day two was a lot of nothing - tanning, reading, ipoding, sleeping, and relaxing. Our hotel manager informed us our room was reserved for a wedding party so we could upgrade to a beach side bungalo for $25 (reg $40). Down the beach a few hundred meters we found our new home for the week - Eden Bar - for $10
Arik soaking up rhe rays
. Now we know what you're thinking. In most cases moving into a bar would signal you had hit rock bottom. In our case it was a cheap bungalow at a great bar and restaurant on a slow patch of beach - we are all class!The next week was a lot more of nothing. Days would start with coffee or mango smoothies on the beach. Around 10:30am our regular fruit lady would stop by, wearing the popular Vietnamese bamboo shoulder holder and pointy hat. Even though she was deformed from agent orange,she could slice up a mean mango or watermelon. Then we would alternate reading, snoozing, swimming, and lunch until always spectacular sunsets. A few days we set-up some NHL hockey playoff radio to cheer for the Vancouver Canucks (local team back home). Luckily the wifi signal made it all the way to our beach chairs, so we didn't have to interrupt the tanning process... One night we headed over to the 4 star La Veranda Resort for a fancy dinner. The rib-eye tasted like a plate of westernized awesomeness. The lamb salad and prawn stir fry, delectable. And for dessert, crème brule and mousse, yummy! At the end of the night our dinner bill was almost as much as our room for the week!
The last full day on the Island we mustered up enough organizational skills to book a snorkeling and fishing trip around the south. And by mustered up, we mean walked 10ft down the beach. On the tour we fished at the snorkeling reef BEFORE we snorkeled. It's not surprising we didn't see much underwater at that spot. Next we ate the beautiful fish we caught and then cruised to a few more locations for snorkeling. Some spots were OK but nothing was too spectacular (to be fair to Phu Quoc our last snorkeling trip was in the Galapagos, so it is kind of hard to compete with that).
The 8 days on the Island came and went faster than we would have liked. But Cambodia, the open road, and more beaches down south are waiting...
