Vietnam Videos

Below are some videos Jon took during our stay in Vietnam.

This first one was taken on Unicorn Island in the Mekong Delta. It's a coconut candy factory, and as you'll see, it's a small time operation, but the product was really tasty!

After visiting the Candy Factory, we stopped by a small cafe for some tea and fruit. We were entertained with Southern Vietnamese folk songs by the following singers.

While walking in the nicer part of Saigon, we noticed these singers and performers outside one of the hotels. It gives you not only a since of their traditional music, but also costumes and instruments.

More of the same troupe, just a different song.

As noted in earlier blogs, we celebrated Tet in the Chinatown section of Saigon, called Cholon, so there it is the year of the rabbit (Chinese), but for the rest of Vietnam, it is year of the cat (the Vietnamese astrological calendar does not have a rabbit). Our hotel hired the troupe to preform first outside the door and then they came inside and paid respects to the altar and even went from floor to floor to bring good wishes to all the guests. I could not help but think that the happy Buddha looked liked Gorbachev.