Changing of the guard at the entrance to the imperial palace.

The fishermen are probably on vacation, too. Or they're out of fish.

Along the coast of the South China Sea we head south to our final destination, the capital Ho Chi Minh City.

Hoi Yang is a city with a rich historical past reflected in its buildings and culture, and it is also under UNESCO protection.

Cozy pedestrian streets with old Japanese and Chinese houses, fishing boats at the pier, souvenir stores, exhibitions of street artists, bicycle rickshaws, slowly taking tourists, girls in beautiful, festive dresses, Buddhist temples and obligatory red flags with sickle and hammer - all this creates a very harmonious picture of a cozy, provincial town, which is very pleasant to walk around for several hours.

There are old houses where people still live, there are stores and cafes. And on these boats you can take a ride for a small fee.

Vietnamese street parties. And we don't feel very comfortable on these low tables.

After the walk you can go to one of the massage parlors, where nice girls will offer you a chic massage feet, body, head and ... everything. ))

We trickled through streams of cars and scooters through the streets of Nha Trang, a fashionable resort city with skyscraper hotels and a huge swanky beach, and reached our small, 20-story hotel in the center of the city.

Nha Trang's waterfront. We did not see anyone wishing to sunbathe. We could not swim in the sea because of the stormy weather and huge waves, so the next morning we set off inland.

Nha Trang is a very cool tourist metropolis.

The road to Dalat is very beautiful, with many viewpoints, waterfalls, rocks.

We also found ourselves at the enormous Cherkizovsky market of the 1990s in the center of the city, where thousands of people buy and sell everything in sight, eat here, ride scooters between the rows of stores, pulling huge carts with tons of designer items from GUCCI, Louis Vuitton, and other Adidas.

And in the center of Dalat is a large lake with white swans - boats and the Eiffel Tower, almost like in Paris, well maybe a little lower.

It's a colorful city, though!

Have you ever tried coffee made from poop?

Vietnam turns out to be quite a serious coffee producer, second in the world after Brazil in terms of exports, which was news to me.

A little tour of the grounds with a visit to a separate "workshop" where small animals (here they are called Weasel or Wiseau) naturally produce the most expensive elite coffee was quite informative.

This method is common in many coffee-producing countries and is better known as Luwak, and the marten- or ferret-like animals are called musangs.

To be honest, I'm not a connoisseur of this drink and I can't describe its aromatic and other advantages compared to other varieties.

There's something about a high-end coffee producer that's no fun today.

A Komsomol wedding. What else could there be in socialist Vietnam? ))

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In the south of Vietnam it's over 30 degrees. And two weeks ago we were freezing in the mountains of Laocaye on the border with China. The weather, people, and nature are so different in North and South Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City is a huge metropolis, comparable to Moscow in area and population. In the center there are skyscrapers of glass and metal, fashionable hotels, shopping centers with boutiques of the world's most famous brands, expensive restaurants and cars, the lights of modern advertising. Walking along the local Arbat, I forgot for a while that I was in a socialist country. In this respect, Vietnam is more like China, where the freedom of entrepreneurship and business successfully coexists with the leading and guiding role of the party.

The center of Ho Chi Minh City is covered in lights and advertisements.

These are the kind of girls you can meet on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. ))

The Vietnamese take great care of their iron-plastic horses. They are always clean, beautiful and shiny.

The construction of modern highways, interchanges, bridges, new districts and even cities is in full swing.

Of course, we are still a long way from South Korea, let alone Japan or Singapore, but the dynamics are very serious.

On the outskirts of the city and along the banks of the river you can still find slums where people live. But they are quickly disappearing.

• The first is people. Very friendly, open and smiling, always ready to help. In half a month there was not a single negative moment related to communication with the locals. That's great! A little difficulty in communication, because 99 out of 100 do not speak any language except Vietnamese. But sign language and a sincere desire to understand each other helped us out as always. And Vietnamese children are the most sociable in the world!

• The second is rich, varied nature. The mountains are cool and rainy in the north, and hot and dry in the south. The mountains, beautiful waterfalls, the sea, beautiful beaches, Halong Bay is one of the wonders of the world - you can come to Vietnam for this.

• Third - pretty developed infrastructure. Good roads, nice clean hotels for all tastes and wallets, delicious local food, which suits us very well.