family affairs
We had a wonderful Sunday afternoon in the Dam Sen amusement park. If circumstances were not that difficult and complicated Thuy Hang, Be and me would make a nice family. I will miss them. The Dam Sen Park is something like the German ‘Phantasialand’. One could say the socialist version … with orientation towards market economy. Architecture expresses the typical Asian kitsch style and in an amusement park this style is even more high-flown.
Attractions are somewhat older already and this fact makes the atmosphere in the park feel like you exist ages ago. Again it feels not only like being at another place, but like in another world - experiencing another life.
We went around, ate soy bean ice cream, rented a pedal-boat and enjoyed fried spring rolls and fresh fruit on the lake until it got dark. Be made attempts to become a photographer … results aren’t that bad seen from the point of view of modern art.
Later in the evening we passed the ice house and went to an aquarium in order to admire huge fish in colourful tanks behind glass. I spent the last evening with the guys in front of my hotel and with Thuy Hang.
Today I left to the airport in order to meet the project team. All are very much sympathetic people. We have been driven to Tra Vinh in an air-conditioned Mercedes van. We had great food for free in a fancy outdoor restaurant, the world-famous Vietnamese “cà phê sữa đá” in a local coffee shop and I just checked into my three star hotel room with air-condition, bathtub, TV, mini-bar and internet access. My first “business” trip. And I have to admit I could get used to another life.
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