Southeast Asia Tour Part 1……

So as most of you know I recently went on a 2 week vacation around Southeast Asia. I traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. As you probably can guess, I have many stories from this trip, so the next few posts will be stories from my trip. While we were in Vietnam, we had the chance to go to white sand dunes. I had no idea what I had agreed to, but they said lets go sledding on white sand dunes, and I said “ok”. We traveled by Jeeps, I might add that they were the slowest Jeeps I had ever been in, I was not sure if we were ever going to actually make it to the sand dunes, but they proved me wrong. We arrived at the dunes and were greeted by numerous excited Vietnamese kids, and when I said kids, I mean mostly teenagers, but they looked like they should be about 8. I still had no idea what sledding on the sand dunes would actually entail, but I found out pretty quickly when one of the only adults around told me that I was “too fat” and that I would need to boys. They grabbed my backpack, my shoes and a sled and then one grabbed one hand and the other grabbed the other and we were off. We walked up to the sand dunes and that was no easy task, but I had my boys pulling me all the way. On the way we made small talk, they spoke English as if it were their native language, I was very impressed. They were both 13 years old; Sun and Man were their names. We got to the top of the dune and they told me that I could either just go once or I could pay and go multiple times, I chose the latter. So they laid the sled down (when I say sled, I mean a piece of flat plastic) and I thought it would be best to go stomach first. When I was in position, they pushed real hard and down the dune I went, sand going everywhere, surprisingly enough, me being the biggest person there, I went the fastest and the furthest, so the fat worked in my advantage for once! Sun and Man came running down the hill behind me screaming and laughing and jumped on top of me and quickly pulled me to my feet and began running me back up the hill. I got to the top and thought I was going to die and they said again, and I was like “Crap” but I got back on and down I went again, and again and again. This went on a few times, sometimes with the boys on my back as if I were the sled myself. When we were all finished and exhausted, we headed back and we came upon a drink stand and all of the boys begged for cokes, so we bought them all cokes and then they all begged for tips, they were all so adorable, we couldn’t resist (you know you couldn’t resist either!) We got back to the Jeeps and said our goodbyes, Tears welled up on our eyes as we waved goodbye to each other……ok so that part didn’t happen, and I thought I would add it for effect! This was definitely one of the highlights of my trip! Next post……..The role of the “motorbike” on my trip!