we've left the busy city of Saigon and made our way to Phu Quoc one of Vietnam's
most popular island destination and for good reason it has the longest sea crossing cable car
in the world five-star resorts and amusement parks and some of the most beautiful beaches
in all of Vietnam we've actually been here for a week already spending quality time with
our good friends and we've noticed a few bizarre things that you may want to know before your
visit to this beautiful Island [Music]
so we're starting our day in this beautiful part of town where a lot of local people like
to come to gather this is where the famous sacred temple of Phu Quoc is this place is called
Dinh Cau Temple there is a interesting story behind this Temple though so the legend goes
that a long time ago lots of fishermen were lost at sea because they couldn't find their
way back to the island so one day suddenly this small cliff appeared and the local people
started using this as a form of navigation to return to the island so that's why they
think this is a very sacred place a place that is probably protected them from violent
storms from bad weather and now it is a main staple here where people come and pray for
good weather for blessing to protect them when they go out to sea and you know who else
like to come here who he has the best spot on the island that is so cute
sugar cane juice should we get one yes please
cool us down a bit oh they have ice cream too
okay I'll get an ice cream you can get sugarcane sounds good [Music]
oh what what flavor inside this one
20 each 20 okay
I think it's coconut oh you can choose mint what I can choose yeah there's mint
there's uh oh mix do you want mix one one ice cream right yeah
looks so beautiful hello
wow I'm glad I didn't have to choose flavor because I didn't know what
to order but this is just a mixed scoop of ice cream with condensed milk and peanuts on top
20 okay everything is twenty thousand dong here
but I think it's not 20,000 I think it's 10,000
I'm not sure but 20 doesn't seem too expensive
oh okay okay yeah there's a sign that say 10 000.
but it's covered but twenty thousand is very reasonable and they're smart to have
the stalls here because it looks like I've showered it's so hot and it's still the morning so the afternoon
is going to be even more hot and we still have like 45 minutes drive because our next
stop is the Starfish Beach
so we've now made it to Starfish Beach which is at the top of the island we are around
a 30 to 45 minute drive from the city center we do find that a lot of the attractions on
this island are a bit spread out we have rented a bike for 150,000 VND per day
but you can also take Grab and if you're going to some of the more popular attractions
we saw like a city bus looking thing like a green bus that you may be able to take as
well but anyways we are here we are trying to get a feel for this place it seems like
there are some restaurants on stilts that are out there where you can grab a bite to
eat grab some cold drinks and there are boats that go further out but we thought that you
can just see starfish right on the beach here but that doesn't seem to be be the case maybe
you have to walk further down I see two starfish where oh I see one
is it still alive I think so it's moving a little bit I hope so where is it moving
oh you can see the arm is moving yeah a little bit
oh there's three two more here
oh cool there are signs everywhere saying that do not pick them up from the beach because
they need to be in the water otherwise they will die so yeah we're just here to admire
them cute and this one came out on the beach this one is big look bigger than my hand
how do they move how do they walk maybe like this like you see the oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
look he's kind of moving like slowly through the sand so it's not quite what we imagined
like the whole beach full of starfish yeah because in the photos you can see like hundreds
of them on the beach that makes me feel like people move them or is it a season maybe we
did try to come during low tide and right now it's not the lowest but it's still relatively low
we just got our coffees it looks really strong
this is so strong
try mine try mine
we got to let the ice melt we got to mix it with water or something
as we mentioned before we have been in Phu Quoc for a week now and we have done
most of the touristy things on the island one of the first things we did with our friends
Adriana and Dylan is to check out the largest Cable Car the Guinness World Record no the
longest cable car sorry the longest cable car in the world and that was the only way
we could get to one of the best water parks in Southeast Asia I think it took like 30
minutes to get there on the cable car yeah but it was a beautiful ride it is a bit stuffy
because you can fit like 30 people into the cable car and of course everyone's trying
to take photos but it was still a very beautiful ride another thing that tops the list is visiting
a local Pepper Farm in Phu Quoc and we did that we did the farm tour we also did a cooking
class and it is quite a unique experience and the farmers will tell you all about how
they grow peppers like peppercorn on this island and the main reason we chose to come
on a holiday here in Phu Quoc because it is known to be one of the most affordable
Island in Southeast Asia we are staying at the Movenpick Residences it's a five-star
Resort it has awesome breakfast has chocolate hours yeah and we booked a sea view room with
amazing balcony we spend almost every night watching the sunset and all that was under
a hundred dollars under a hundred US dollars per night which is really really good so while
we were exploring the island we did notice some kind of bizarre things we thought it
would be easier if we would just show you so we'll just head to one of those places right now
welcome to the Grand World we don't even have words to describe
this place because it is just kind of decked out in beautiful architecture it's a huge
complex that it is very modern and so different from the other parts of the undeveloped island
there's a couple things to do here so we'll take you guys and do some exploring in this
area I gotta say though it's pretty epic look at that everything here is so beautiful this
park reminds me of that Park in Singapore the one with all the lights yeah it's all decorated
with beautiful trees and beautiful flowers but then inside here there's kind of a little
Italian town like in Venice yeah like European city but then back there there is a replica
of Hoi An so let's go check out both of them yeah
I think you can take these out like actually remove them oh yeah and fight each other well
I don't think that was the intention but choose your weapon
this is the weapon of choice for me go ahead choose yours
I'm going to go with this one
I'm gonna slice you open
I've been waiting to do this for a while now
I think we're not allowed to do this
so I guess we weren't allowed to do that but good thing they came to stop us I didn't want
you to be injured so he saved my life he saved your life yeah I think it's pretty awesome
that all this is free yeah you can just come into this part which is like a mini version
of Hoi An but they have staff pretending to be street vendors do martial arts wearing
old traditional clothes yeah there's a rental shop where you can rent the queen outfit and
the king outfit it's really interesting we're not gonna dress up today no it's too hot it's
so hot but I think it'd be really really nice for photos around here
so we're now inside what looks like a little Venice and this is not what we were expecting
to find in Vietnam there is a canal obviously a man-made Canal that kind of goes through
this beautiful Disney like Village and what's bizarre about it is that I think 90% of the
buildings here are empty yes there are some homestays some cafes some shops but a lot
of them seem to be like just it says for example that one says fruits and vegetables and inside
there's nothing it's fake and if it's empty on the bottom level most likely it is empty
on the second and third floors as well the crazy thing is that there's another Village
like this down south I feel like that one even bigger than this and it's also completely empty
I think Phu Quoc has enough to keep you entertained for four to five days for sure it's a great
place for like a short holiday and it's good for families with kids with elderly because
all of these attractions are very very family friendly it's an island made for tourists yeah
we hope you enjoyed spending the day with us in Phu Quoc and hope you will add this to
your list for another next visit to Vietnam as always thank you so much for watching and
have a wonderflo day perfect timing we are back bye