Tuy Hoa here we come!

March 3rd, 2010 by Kate Sutton

When I was told that It would be an 8 hour bus ride to Tuy Hoa (pronouced “Tea Wah”) I had my first – what AM I doing? moment. 8 hours on a Vietnamese bus….. that could mean anything but soon my fears were gone and we were on our way.  The bus was more like a large mini van and yes, it was pretty full with people and baggage and sure, our toilet stops were on the side of the road – but the experience was brillant the the views were something else.

The highway runs down the coast of Vietnam which meant that we were driving the views of the sea for at least half the trip. Coming over a hill to see a beautiful sweeping yellow sanded beach with hundreds and hundreds of small fishing boats dotting the sea scape – it was well worth the stuffiness of the bus ride.

We were all super keen to get into Tuy Hoa . The group for the month of March are our resident long term volutneer Shae, who originally hails from Aussie  – Joy from Darwin Australia, Michelle who is from LA, U.S.A and myself Kate – from New Zealand. Steve from the UK also joined us for the trip down to visit two children who he is sponsoring to go to school here in Tuy Hoa (more on this later).

It was such a relief to be met at the bus station by our cool, calm, collected placement manager Nguyen and the amazing and beautiful Miss Chi our cook. These two incredible ladies took us under their wings and we were treated like we had all been living at the house for months and months already.

We were given a brief city tour around Tuy Hoa – a city of about 100,000 people. Its a great city with a beach a stunning Cham tower and an entertainment centre where you can fish for your own dinner (not sure we will be doing that).

If you are considering coming to the GVN programme Tuy Hoa is an incredible city to come too. Its off the beaten track and there are not many westerners here (which means we get funny looks a lot!) but its beautiful and compact (we can cycle many places) and the GVN house here is seriously cool.

There is so much to tell about the kids but that is a whole other blog.

Till later – Kate

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm and is filed under Vietnam Orphanage.

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