if there's one country that's been at the top of our travel bucket list it's this one vietnam this
country is full of breathtaking nature beautiful beaches in unbelievable locations where do you
find stuff like this can't stop sorry i'm like not even paying attention to the camera because i
can't stop looking around this is crazy get ready as we dive deep into traditional vietnamese food
to see what the hype is all about it's really just you look at that from beautiful temples
to colorful towns to the insanely busy streets of hanoi the smells of hanoi and the food
it's everywhere as you walk through the city it's so cool that you have the fusion of all these like
kind of different countries we can't wait for you to see the beauty of this incredible country
we are the delightful travelers and welcome to vietnam i'm on my way now
well welcome to vietnam everyone this is our first time in the country and we could not be more
excited this has been a long time coming but for those of you that have been following along
you know that we were in the dominican republic for many many months now after what 45 hours of
travel three lights we are here in vietnam so if you are wondering yes we are very very jet-lagged
we actually got here last night had a very good night's sleep in our hotel got up this morning and
i think it's gonna just take a few days to kind of adjust to this new time zone i think it's
like an 11 hour difference so if you're wondering why maybe i can't talk today or anything that's
why but we're in halong bay it's one of the most famous places in all of vietnam you've probably
seen photos of it we will be going out and doing like a cruise of the bay and all that stuff so do
not worry but today we're off to explore the city and just see what we can find take a look at the
boats here in the bay these are just those iconic asian style boats that you see all around this
region also the bay itself seems to be on kind of a beach you'll see lots of sand with the city
line in the backdrop this is so cool what a way to kick things off here in vietnam so if you're new
around here my name is trevor anna is behind the camera we are the delightful travelers make sure
to hit the subscribe button and the little bell to follow along on this whole series here in vietnam
we're so stoked as we said and this is day one and we got a lot of videos in store for you guys
uh where's everybody at you know i feel like we maybe have this whole city to ourselves i don't
know if it's just where we are and it'll get super busy up there but even when we drove through last
night it seemed really really quiet which is not at all what i would have expected from vietnam
now we're in ha long bay so maybe it's quieter here but i think vietnam just opened like
maybe three weeks ago two weeks ago it's early april as we film this so
it's interesting well this isn't what i pictured at all we're now walking on sidewalks here with
no pedestrians around hardly any cars going by well if we're going to have the whole country to
ourselves we're going to be pretty stoked about that but we know that's not going to happen
right now we are on our way to one of the busier areas here and i think we're going to see what we
expect we're just walking past a roundabout now and i don't think the camera does it justice this
is huge and you can snap and there's not a lot of uh cars there but take a look we're gonna cross
the street here look at this wall full of artwork uh wow this thing is like 50 or 60 feet high huh
by the way people warned us about crossing the street in vietnam and that cars don't stop
for you which they don't but i think here you don't have to worry about it too much because
there's really not much traffic it's so odd but it's so colorful and it's made out of ceramic
tile it almost looks like the bottom of like an overpass or something like that what are you up
to over here well since there's no one around and it's relatively quiet right here and we
just arrived in vietnam it's time to figure out some words so i'm here on google translate
we should learn you know like hello and thank you anything else goodbye maybe goodbye right what's
the first one there okay we're starting with hello and by the way sometimes google translate is not
known to be the best i'll be enough for some basic words it's failed us before but let's see hello
all right thank you when i just read it looks like cam on
come on come on and goodbye is that tam biet
hopefully we are going to remember those because we're here for a little while and
we're we're going to need to learn some basics when it comes to vietnam and communicating
but we did hear that the vietnamese language is very very difficult but those aren't too bad
it feels so good to be walking around the streets here of halong in vietnam it's our first time here
first impressions i love it i know it's been so long since we've ate visited a new country it's
been over two years i mean we've done a little bit of traveling obviously we've been in the dominican
republic for quite a few months but we've been there before this is our first like big trip since
the pandemic but those of you that don't know this our last new country that we went to
philippines march 2020 we got stuck there for four months we actually had plans to come to vietnam
pretty much two years ago to the dates wow but as you know it takes a lot of work to fly across the
world it was basically two days of traveling it was a lot of stress it wasn't easy and it brought
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like us it's getting a little busier now with traffic but it's time that we get something to eat
because we're absolutely hungry and since we're in vietnam you know what that means vietnamese
and more specifically so we've come over to a little hole in the wall to try some very
traditional food here in vietnam you can see them making it right now we have a sandwich but it's
not just any sandwich this is called upon me and we have been waiting to try this kind of sandwich
in the actual country of vietnam for a very long time look at the inside of this thing doesn't that
look good there were so many options on sandwiches here i thought there was only one kind of bun me
and there's not at all there was about a dozen different kinds the one we went for here is
chicken and i think it also said some sausage in here let's just enough talking and go right for it
that is so good the first thing i actually got in here are little chunks of sausages themselves i
didn't even really get a whole big bite of chicken the mayonnaise is really really nice it's kind of
citrusy as well there are some vegetables on here i think there's a bit of carrots a bit of lettuce
i don't know if i've had lettuce on a balmy before but secret weapon might be this bread very soft
also crunchy as well this is so good it's living up to the expectations for sure
trevor got me very excited to try this i know you're gonna like it listen to that crunch
first off the bread is really good they put it in a like a panini press so the bread itself is
a baguette it's always on a baguette so it's really soft but then crunchy on the outside
because of the time it's spent in the panini press i definitely noticed the sausage which
tastes a little bit like hot dog so i'm feeling this is not the typical uh traditional bun me
but i did read about this place is that it's a good mixture of western and and vietnamese food
so it might be a little bit like touristy or for people like us that are doing this for the
first time the drink options just said tea or at least it translated to tea i would say it's
maybe closer to juice but how cute is this it says my name is happy on the top and you stick
the straws through the top that's pretty normal when you get teas and coffees around here i like
the presentation so you got this cute looking tea and some of you might have noticed that the bomb
me sandwich itself is kind of wrapped in this newspaper yeah but it's not tea like at all so
we got a mango i think it is we've got mango on the bottom and it's kind of like syrupy i would
say that was a great way to kick off the food scene here in vietnam we're so stoked to try
more of that cuisine yeah we're going to have oh well that's probably the first of many bunnies
that we're going to have yeah our knowledge of vietnamese spirit we've obviously eaten
at lots of vietnamese restaurants but generally we have like food which is a type of soup we'll
be eating lots of that meat and a few other different things so we're really excited to
try different noodle dishes a whole bunch of things that we've probably never even heard
of we probably will dedicate a video or two if we have the time to vietnamese food don't worry
i know you guys like when we eat we have videos when we only eat and i bet those are gonna happen
we're on our way to find the market so we're just kind of getting into the thick of it do
you think that's it right there ah we did find it we were having a hard time with google maps but
i think that's it so we're just stepping into this place now
and i expected to see food right away but look at this i'm in kind of like this hardware this
kind of flowers behind us yeah there's just lots of like well clothes garments
it's kind of half open and not open at the same time so i'm not sure what's going on
well we found the food section officially i'm not sure if you can tell how big it is in here
this is the most amount of vegetables it's all i see so far is vegetable this is crazy i know
we just ate but now i feel like i want to eat more food trevor is talking about vegetables but i can
tell you based on my nose there is fish in here it doesn't smell amazing but there's definitely fish
well we found some of the fish take a look at this these guys are actually alive and moving in there
wow this must have been caught today they measure this with just cars
this is the place to come if you're wanting to cook your own fish
so we've been to the fruit section and the fish section but if you're remotely sensitive to like
a smells and be dead things or alive things or you're a vegetarian you might not want to come
here no there's quite a bit happening behind you yeah well this is definitely the vietnam
that i was hoping to see this is the real thing i can't believe what we're getting to see here
yeah i know i think we're the only foreigners here right now at least that i've seen so far of course
we haven't seen many at all i don't think there's many tourists here but maybe when we go actually
on holland bay we'll discover that's where all the tourists currently are but it's very definitely
a very very local bucket yeah could not get more local than this also pro tip if you're coming here
wear shoes if you're wearing flip-flops or sandals you might not be happy it's a little wet
i got another pro tip once when you get home wash the shoes yes this is where you want to hang out
if you're in the market if you come down here by the flower section things smell a whole lot better
but it's pretty cool that these are here but take a look over here look at all these bananas and
this is just one little section all that way is bananas too this place is bananas anybody happen
to know what this thing is some kind of fruit it's definitely a type of fruit it might be
is it a dragon fruit maybe someone can let us know i bet you on this trip we're going to encounter a
lot of fruits that we're not familiar with if you get the chance to come to the city here in halong
definitely check out this market it is so worth it all the sights i mean you'll see some of them as
i'm just walking out here it's crazy i love this kind of stuff so much so if you are wondering what
are the mass rules currently in vietnam well we're honestly trying to figure it out at the moment i
think in general you're supposed to wear a mask when you're out and about or around other people
it seems from what we've witnessed so far that outside people seem to wear them a lot
and then when they come inside around other people they're not wearing them so we're not really sure
what the official rules are for us we're gonna try to use our general sense and like
when we're out and not around other people we're not gonna have our maps on when we're around
big groups of people we're going to try to have them that's what we've been doing all around
the world yeah we were told some people told us that if you just have it around your chin that's
okay if you're outside but that doesn't make any sense to us and we've been at buffets where people
don't have them on at all yeah trevor today watch somebody run go for a run outside by himself with
a mask on and then come into a buffet and take it off i don't know so next up on the list we heard
even before we got to this beautiful country that the coffee is really good yeah they have
apparently lots of different types of coffee so throughout the various videos we're going to be
trying different different things different things um but we definitely need some coffee yeah and
lucky for us we are coffee lovers so we can't wait to see just how good this vietnamese coffee is
so the coffee has arrived we ordered first a black coffee with milk and i think here traditionally
when you order anything with milk it comes with condensed milk so it's going to be sweet let's
try it oh wow well it's definitely sweet but it's also kind of bitter like a strong coffee flavor
at the same time it's really really interesting and quite yummy if you think that looks like a
basic coffee don't worry we got something else look at that i did not expect this my floor
this is crazy this is called a special coconut coffee it comes with a spoon there's also a
straw i feel like i'm in a race so it doesn't melt i'm just going to go for it with the spoon
whoa that's very coconut forward holy moly and it's sweet as well but it's good it kind
of works because the coffee comes through let me just try to see what happens when i
drink from the straw that is delicious you can also taste that condensed milk but the coffee
itself is nice and strong and this is sweet and usually i don't like any sweetness in my coffee
but this definitely works and i'll tell you what i give it a 10 out of 10 for presentation did you
ever see a coffee that looks like what looks like this seriously this takes the cake it's actually
kind of fun to eat it's almost like eating like an iced something like a an ice cream or something
like that so you get to do this with the ice and then drink the coffee that melts in the bottom
so we just took the boat yes you heard that right the boat back over to our hotel from the main
part of the city and this hotel looks spectacular and if you followed along
in uh well this last video the previous video you would have got a little glimpse of it huh
yeah but you're gonna get a little glimpse maybe if you show them the front of the hotel
again because it's very very grand it's like a castle basically wait till you see this place
look at this is it not absolutely spectacular this huge beautiful resort like i said this is
almost like a castle it's a castle facing halong bay it's totally crazy in the next video we'll
give you a tour of it because how can we not you have to see inside of this place and the outside
yeah so if you're wondering about why we're here we were invited as we said before
to do sort of a tour that's coming up there'll be a whole bunch of people with us it's uh being put
on by a company called vin group and we're not have never heard of them before before coming
here before they contacted us and invited us over here but they're a huge company here in vietnam
i'm sure if you're from vietnam you know exactly who they are they have this hotel a whole bunch
of hotels vin pearl there's a few of them i think we're visiting two of them but they're also have
an electric car company called vinfac but for now what a day of first impressions here in the
country we're so excited to be here i hope you guys are too this is gonna be a wildly different
series so much to see so much to film so excited so excited we're gonna be doing so much stuff and
if you're new it's trevor anna delightful travelers make sure to click the subscribe
button to follow along if you're not new you know the drill it's nice to see each and every
one of you again for now we're gonna call it here and try to relax maybe get some sleep to
get over the jet lag yeah i think so hopefully we'll be much more rested in the next video
all right guys that's it from halong wishing you delightful travels see you soon