So, we’ve been in Vietnam for just over a week and what an incredible journey this has been so far. But before I start posting the typical here’s what I did in this-or-that city, I’ll begin with a simple picture of Vietnam from yesterday evening:
Booming waves crash against the golden sand as I run barefoot and slowly along Nha Trang beach on the South China Sea. I am getting some exercise to try and put my cough and congestion to bed after a long cold that has dogged me almost since I arrived in Asia. What begins as a simple mission to stretch my lungs soon turns into a contemplative encounter with the lovely Vietnamese people on a 20-minute stretch of sand…
I pass a young father with his daughter at the end of a wooden pier, holding hands. She is wearing her primary school uniform and smiling towards the sea, her communist red bandana and silken black hair blowing in the strong ocean breeze.