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WELCOME TO MINH CHI HOME PAGE! (Built on March 23, 1999) |
We built this site to tell you something about us and our homeland, Vietnam. This is my family in central Vietnam's city of Danang, at a resort on the China Beach. We spent out summer vacation there for a couple of days in July, 2000 and we did enjoy the clean sea, the white sand and the swimming pool at the resort. My parents like travelling and they also take me along. It is great to be out when you can ignore routine meals and naps. I don't like eating very much, unlike my father. He always enjoys taking different type of foods whenever he goes. In July 1999 he spent two weeks down in southern Vietnam, visiting Phu Quoc island and several Mekong Delta provinces. He experienced the worst seasick while sailing back from Phu Quoc to Ha Tien town in southern Kien Giang province on a fishing boat, caught in storms and heavy rains, with a ticket worth just 35,000 Vietnamese dong. He told me that he would one day take me and my mum to Phu Quoc on holiday but only by flight, which takes one hour from southern Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Rainy season in southern Vietnam started from mid-April and last through October. For myself the school life began on August 12, 1999 when my parents took me to a kindergaten for the first time but then my grandma kept me home again, saying I was too small to go to school. On August 1 my parents took me to the kindergaten again, which I did not like much but that's the life! I am going to school now. Last update Sept 27, 2003. ($1 = 15,510 dong) | |||||||||||||||||||
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This is a lake in central Hanoi, named the Hoan Kiem (Returned Sword) Lake. Our homeland is not that large, compared with other world cities like Bangkok, New York or Paris but it is charming and a bit quiet. Hanoi where we were born and grew up is in northern Vietnam, which features four seasons a year. The best time to visit Hanoi is autumn, while now it is summer time. The temperature is around 28 degree C in average. The city has a 1,000-year history. Hanoi, home to some 2.6 million people, exudes charm, especially in the Old Quarter, a warren of 36 twisting alleys named after the product predominantly sold along each street. Faded grey pagodas also dot the city's many picturesque lakes and tree-lined boulevards boast an array of ochre-coloured colonial buildings erected by the French. Now many streets have changed their image, offering various commodities but most of the street names are still retained. You can spot Hanoi streets with names like Hang (shop) Bac (silver), Hang Bong (cotton), Hang Quat (fan), Hang Dao (silk), Hang Trong (drum), Hang Hom (wooden cage) etc... China town in no longer exists in the Vietnam capital but a street named Hang Buom still lives up with memory about its Chinese residents. (In southern Ho Chi Minh City there is a China town -- Cho Lon -- which is located in the District Five. Chinese language is spoken along with Vietnamese there in the streets which are decorated with bilingual signboards.) | From Hanoi With Love | |||||||||||||||||||
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