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Hello, I am Vietnamese. Actually, in Vietnam, they mainly sell birds to locals, not foreign tourists. You can often see them being sold in front of temples with the purpose of creating "merit" - a Buddhist concept that aims to release captive creatures and grant blessings to those who perform this act. According to Buddhist belief, this act can bring about good fortune. You can also randomly buy fish or turtles from the market to release them into nature for the same purpose.
Currently learning Vietnamese, I feel proud of myself when I recognise some of the words in your video. Great video and I'll tune into your next one 🇻🇳
I love Vietnam and how exciting the cities are. The scooter traffic is absolutely insane but somehow it works great and i haven't seen any accidents.. I'm vlogging from Hanoi & making my way to Ha Giang and Hoi An, absolutely recommend visiting those places too!
In Vietnam you have so many wonderful cities and towns to visit. From mountain towns like Dalat and Sapa to beach cities like Danang and Nha Trang, while discovery ancient places like Hoi An and Hue. Happy travels and remember to eat all those amazing food.
Great choice of Country Mr Ken. I hope you have a fantastic time in Vietnam and I can't wait to see you exploring the beautiful countryside on your motorbike. Stay safe and have fun.
Hi Ken, am v happy that you’re in HCM City… They welcome you well… As always do take care ya… I am following you to places in Vietnam… A bit cooling will be Dalat ok… Enjoy your journey .. Sending love n respect from Kuala Lumpur❤
Enjoyed Vietnam in 2018, Ho Chi Min City and Dalat. As I watched your difficulty communicating, I wonder if you can use a translation app. Let them hear the translation of what you say and let them speak into the app and you listen to their translation. Also, consider having one of your TH-cam videos preloaded on your phone so you can show them the end product of the work you do.
Thanks for another great video Ken🙏🏽🌸 I love Ho Chi Min city, so vibrant and yes the Banh mi is delish. I truly recommend you to go on a Mekong tour for at least a day. Hope your mom, auntie and uncle had a good trip back home. Enjoy Vietnam to the fullest!
Vietnam seems to be a destination a lot of Australians a going to. They tell me it’s beautiful. Enjoy your time there, stay safe with all that traffic.
How wonderful to start your exploration by having a cup of fresh sugar cane juice, then releasing a bird which is a good act that reduces bad luck or misfortune/ to bring good luck. Interesting tour around that beautiful temple. That crane standing together with the tortoise represent a healthy long life of happiness. It's amazing to meet that group of friendly youngsters with their colourful Vietnamese traditional clothes. Vietnamese baguette and street food BBQ look yummy. Haha...you will have to familiarise yourself with those low stools and tables there 🤓😀 Thanks for sharing your first impression of Ho Chi Minh City. As always, great content and it's interesting and fun to watch. Looking forward to the next video. "Cam O'n", Ken.
Vietnamese used to write in Chinese characters called Chu nom before we switched to Latin characters and that temple dedicated to Le Van Duyet, a general during Nguyen dynasty.
7:00 it not chinese temple lol it temple of vietnamese mandarin governor of the south. Btw vietnam used Han Nom writing system ( based on chinese like japanese kanji and korea befor they switching to hangul , vietnam depite being in south east asia our culture are east asia ) our latin alphabet system was only adapt recent in 1945 to help combat iliterate
Hi Ken. I was in HCM City in 68/69. The Vietnamese people have been through a lot. I'm pleased to see they have the opportunity of not having to deal with major conflicts. They finally have a chance.
@@maxlol1173 Hi Max. HCM was a down trodden city at that time. War was a ll around. When I look at the recent videos of the city I'm so happy that the people are and are recovering from the ravages of the past. The French, the Vietnam War, having to oust Pot Pol from Cambodia, disagreements with the Chinese, lots of conflicts preventing Vietnamese society from prospering. Finally, the economic embargo was lifted in the mid 90's. The Vietnamese are good people and at this time the young people of Vietnam don't have be too concerned about combat coming to their doorsteps. Many parts of HCM City look beautiful and I'm pleased to see that.
@@PrescottJackson-ih9ow Also, their history is one of having to fight off foreigner after foreigner trying to take over their land. But they fought them all back again and again....fought the Mongols, whom were brutal and fierce and couldn't conquer Vietnam.
Before using the latin alphabet in 18th century, vietnamese used the Nôm which was the same as chinese character, some of Nôm liked as Chinese and others was different.
Nice to see you didn't go straight to D1 like most people I stayed in D7 my first days and it was amazing to see the locals how surprised they were to see tall foreigner in their neighborhood 😁 Have google translation on quick access, vietnamese is hard to learn
It's understandable why English isn't spoken as widely there as other countries...whilst Vietnam was busy fighting wars (it's a country riddle with war in it's history, unlike Thailand or the Philippines), other countries enjoy peace and allowed US military bases or had a history of British colonization. However, the younger kids are starting to learn English more.
I`m lookiing at this with a nostalgic feeling, we all have places we wish to visit, one of those places for me is Vietnam, I can`t even explain it to myself why because there are so many destinations. And to see you there on arrival, it`s for me like "i wish i were there" Thanks for sharing, I look forward to future videos so as to enjoy your adventures thru your lenses.
I have watched other TH-camrs to travel to Ha Long Bay and Da Nang, where are beautiful, I suggest you go there also! That temple is called "上公廟", and the characters are now called Mandarin. The word "Chinese" is no longer used, because China no longer uses traditional Chinese! 上公 is 黎文悅. To put it simply, he is a local hero, he has a Chinese adopted son who is in charge of the trade between the two countries. Because of his contribution to the local area, later generations built a temple to commemorate and thank him! I know Cranes and tortoises are representatives of longevity in Eastern culture, and they are symbols of auspiciousness wherever they appear! But I am not sure is that bird a crane. The street food at the end looked delicious, and the warmth of the locals convinced me that a smile is the best language! You did a really great job, thanks a lot for sharing！👍😄👏
No! Your information is wrong! It's obvious that you don't understand Chinese language! The "Chinese characters" is NEVER called "Mandarin"! Mandarin is the spoken Chinese, so there is NO "Mandarin characters"! Both simplified and traditional characters belong to China! It's always called Chinese characters!!
@@giannishen Please don't be too fake!! Mandarin is only a spoken Chinese - 官話！But for the written form of Chinese, NOBODY would use the term "Mandarin" to call the characters... Do you understand??!
Jasmine tea.. 😁 Actually, Thailand in general is pretty clean, come to think of it. Almost no trash anywhere. Compared to Malaysia and Indonesia - rural West Malaysia is REALLY bad. People just seem to throw garbage everywhere. East Malaysia is different, I've stayed at an Iban longhouse (way out in the middle of nowhere) and there was NO garbage lying around. People do tend to collect garbage in Indonesia, but they burn it right there, plastics included. What REALLY impresses me about Thailand is the toilets - REALLY clean, if you're used to Malaysian ones. (One thing I didn't know - but I learned from TH-cam.. 😁is that in Thailand you can always find public toilets in temples... )
Thanks for the entertaining video! My experience is that English is spoken more widely in Vietnam, particularly amongst the younger folks than it is here in Thailand, where I live.
Usually the same bird will return and fall into the same trap and get resold again. You did not really buy freedomm for the bird. To answer your question, Vietnamese believe this will bring good luck. You will see them selling birds near budha temples
I went twice to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). U must visit Malaysia Street… U will feel that U are somehow in Malaysia! 🤣 must visit Ben Thanh market, U can even make affordable suits here at a good price, ready in. 24 hours & send to your hotel. Plus must visit Cu Chi Tunnel & the museum
I traveled to Vietnam 🇻🇳 last summer. Saigon is cool 😎 I rode on a Gojek scooter. Crazy traffic, man. Be careful of the street food. They don't wash the vegetables with filtered water. Make sure everything you eat is cooked. You don't want the dreaded travel bug. Our gut biome can't handle it. You ate a Banh Mi in your video. Good luck 😆
So it's back to Vietnam, but probably to a city which you didn't go the last time round....It always nice to try to communicate with locals...Actually, my favorite is the Ao Dai , the tradisional Vietnamese dresses which the ladies wear with a hat as well.... Very elegant... Those stool are typical Vietnamese.... Gotta get used to it...and nothing like street food experiences and hot grilled meat...lol ...and Yeah, Ho Chi Minh City... I wanna see this city.... Jom!!
Haven't read all the replies so not sure if others have answered your questions, but I'll try: 1) I'm not Buddhist though so this might be incorrect, but in Vietnam, people buy birds and fish to release because they believe it will being good karma to them, it's called Phóng Sanh 2) China used to dominate Vietnam for thousands of years, because of that influence, we used to write in Chinese characters, but we have different spoken language. Until the French came to Vietnam, then they brought Roman letters to us, they actually helped us create our written language now that's not characters. We're the only country in Asia that uses Roman letters and not characters 3) Until recently, English was not the chosen language to teach in school, Russian was. That's why a lot of older generation do not speak English well. Find younger people and they are more than likely to speak English to help you. In the last 20 years Vietnam started to understand English is the language to interact with outside world and has started to teach more in schools is what i heard Have a good time in Vietnam, i haven't been back for 20 years and i left since 1994 so it's fun seeing Saigon again
From my understanding, Vietnam used to be part of China and then gained independence so there are a lot of remains of Chinese governs there, I’m not sure if you can say that is not Chinese, cause usually when I consider British remains in the colonies, I’d say that’s still a British building rather than part of the local culture, but people may have different thoughts on that.
Thankyou , brings back happy memories and yes it takes a bit of getting use tos eeing so many bikes. How are navigating across the roads? It takes confidence to journey across and face the oncoming traffic. Enjoy.
Hi, Ken. As you can see the characters from the temple which are Chinese characters. As ancient Vietnam didn't have their own characters, and it was the dependency of ancient China, then the Vietnamese borrow Chinese characters as their own official characters. FYI. Thank you~
A big welcome to my country ! Thanks to visit and promote VN. Enjoy and have a good time ahead in VN. Be careful when driving in Sai Gon. I’ll travel to Thailand on Apr and thank to your video I get alots of information then 😊.
You should try and meet up with Dustin&Reche they have left Hanoi and are in Da Nang now,I'm sure they will be heading for Ho Chi Minh soon,it would be super cool for you to make a vlog with them.
You should try to link up with Chris Lewis and Max McFarlin - two American youtubers based in Vietnam that speak perfect Vietnamese. Max is a food reviewer and Chris does general travel videos. Both super smart and can speak multiple languages (Hindi, Urdu, Japanese, Chinese etc).
Welcome back to VN my friend . Hope you will enjoy more this current trip than the previous one . During the Covid period , people were more cautious and nervous so why your first visit in North Vietnam was not very pleasant . BTW how did you know this district . Ba Chieu is actually a very local area , not many tourists come here so why most of the vendors don't speak English . FYI in VN the turtle is one of the four sacred animals ( Dragon , Lion/Unicorn ,Turtle and Phoenix) in our mythology . It's the symbol of longevity, hard working and resilience , so why this animal is always present in pagodas , temples or mausoleums, carrying on its back either an heron or a stele meaning everlasting devotion to Buddha , the deities or the buried person in the tomb . One advice for you : just be careful with your valuables like camera , bag , wallet , Iphone , watch , etc...while strolling in those low-end districts because after the pandemic many people here are jobless and financially not too good . So they might try to do some reprehensive things to make their living . Don't tempt the Devil . It's better be safe than sorry . Are you planning to explore more regions in the South and the Center of VN . I highly recommend you to check-out the Mekong delta , Phu Quoc island , Con Dao island , Nha Trang , Dalat , the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyen) , Da Nang , Hoi An , Hue and Phong Nha/Ke Bang . Have a nice and safe trip in Vietnam Bro .
Chinese characters because as long long time ago we used this same like a traditional words. That is an part of history, you can check something in wikipedia to know.
The writing on the temple most likely not Chinese. It’s the old ancient Vietnamese writing. It looks like mandarin but it’s ancient Vietnamese characters before the transformation to the current writing.
It's Traditional Chinese, just like Japan, and Korea, Vietnam is also one of the Sinophere countries (heavily influenced by Chinese culture). Before the 19th century, Vietnam used Chinese characters for official writing language, so even now you still can see Chinese characters in some ancient buildings in Vietnam...
Love your vlog, thank you for the great videos! As for the birds on the street - it's a Buddhist tradition to buy and release the birds to earn "good karma" points. Unfortunately, some people use this as an opportunity to make money. They capture the birds, sell them for release, and often recapture them again. Of course, knowing that I personally would still release them anyway!
@@KenAbroad Whoa! Which camera do you use? If go-pro, which version? I just bought go pro 10. Thinking to buy a mod and a microphone. BTW, I'll also be in Vietnam in 3 weeks time. Last year, I was in Sri Lanka. Just a couple of weeks before you went there. It's a small world. 😄
@@KenAbroad hey , if you have time i want to invite you to come hoc mon town .... i have a small bussiness for the food .... i m selling the food for breakfast and the name of the food i make them vietnamese call it hu tieu gio heo ...... i think english call it pork soup noddles ... im sorry my english not good .... i just learning english by myself on youtube ..
Central Vietnam has the best weather and French architecture. City of Da Lat is where the French headquarters was for 40 yrs and monopolized the rice crop and caused a ramen thus caused HoChi Minh to get support to kick them out.
Firstly I just want to say thank you for your quality content, Ken! I have a question I would like to ask you; comparing Vietnam to Thailand, which country has the better level of English among its average local population?
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my best bro ken looking handsome thank you for your huge respect against cpec friendship countries lot of love from your best bro viki 💙
Yup, l've been to Vietnam but only the Northern part. Hope to travel to the Southern part one day. For the time being, l'll follow you around, Ken.
Nope ... but certainly will in future
I am with you through your videos
Visited Hanoi and Ha Long Bay years ago. Oil company sponsored group tour.. 😁
Hello, I am Vietnamese. Actually, in Vietnam, they mainly sell birds to locals, not foreign tourists. You can often see them being sold in front of temples with the purpose of creating "merit" - a Buddhist concept that aims to release captive creatures and grant blessings to those who perform this act. According to Buddhist belief, this act can bring about good fortune. You can also randomly buy fish or turtles from the market to release them into nature for the same purpose.
Why are you in IKEA! In your profile pic?
Currently learning Vietnamese, I feel proud of myself when I recognise some of the words in your video. Great video and I'll tune into your next one 🇻🇳
Thanks, enjoy your content. Keep going Ken!
Thank you 🙏
Looking forward to your Vietnam adventures! 🤗👏
I love Vietnam and how exciting the cities are. The scooter traffic is absolutely insane but somehow it works great and i haven't seen any accidents.. I'm vlogging from Hanoi & making my way to Ha Giang and Hoi An, absolutely recommend visiting those places too!
Your videos are great, just watched them. Hope you have fun time in Vietnam!
@@baekimin21 thank you so much!
This guy is so wholesome!🥹 love your videos!
Thanks for taking us along with you to another new country Vietnam.
In Vietnam you have so many wonderful cities and towns to visit. From mountain towns like Dalat and Sapa to beach cities like Danang and Nha Trang, while discovery ancient places like Hoi An and Hue. Happy travels and remember to eat all those amazing food.
Thanks a lot ✌️😊
Great choice of Country Mr Ken. I hope you have a fantastic time in Vietnam and I can't wait to see you exploring the beautiful countryside on your motorbike. Stay safe and have fun.
Finally Ken arrived in Saigon ! NJoy your stay...
Nice VDO, Ken 👍 Welcome to Vietnam 🇻🇳 The people in HCM /Saigon are very friendly !
I think you will love the food, very healthy and the people are really cool. I love visiting Vietnam.
Hi Ken, am v happy that you’re in HCM City… They welcome you well… As always do take care ya… I am following you to places in Vietnam… A bit cooling will be Dalat ok… Enjoy your journey .. Sending love n respect from Kuala Lumpur❤
Another beautiful country and I'm sure you will enjoy it all!
I'm jealous of that delicious bahn mi, one of my favourite Vietnamese foods.
Enjoyed Vietnam in 2018, Ho Chi Min City and Dalat. As I watched your difficulty communicating, I wonder if you can use a translation app. Let them hear the translation of what you say and let them speak into the app and you listen to their translation. Also, consider having one of your TH-cam videos preloaded on your phone so you can show them the end product of the work you do.
It is fun watching your video following your own 1st impression about normal daily life in Vietnam's HCM city.
Welcome to my homecity 🤗 I used to train martial arts near that temple and also in the yard of the temple.
Thanks for another great video Ken🙏🏽🌸 I love Ho Chi Min city, so vibrant and yes the Banh mi is delish. I truly recommend you to go on a Mekong tour for at least a day. Hope your mom, auntie and uncle had a good trip back home. Enjoy Vietnam to the fullest!
Yes they arrived safely in Germany. Thanks a lot 🙏
Vietnam seems to be a destination a lot of Australians a going to. They tell me it’s beautiful. Enjoy your time there, stay safe with all that traffic.
How wonderful to start your exploration by having a cup of fresh sugar cane juice, then releasing a bird which is a good act that reduces bad luck or misfortune/ to bring good luck. Interesting tour around that beautiful temple. That crane standing together with the tortoise represent a healthy long life of happiness. It's amazing to meet that group of friendly youngsters with their colourful Vietnamese traditional clothes. Vietnamese baguette and street food BBQ look yummy. Haha...you will have to familiarise yourself with those low stools and tables there 🤓😀 Thanks for sharing your first impression of Ho Chi Minh City. As always, great content and it's interesting and fun to watch. Looking forward to the next video. "Cam O'n", Ken.
Vietnamese used to write in Chinese characters called Chu nom before we switched to Latin characters and that temple dedicated to Le Van Duyet, a general during Nguyen dynasty.
Been waiting for this for a long time!! Nice to see HCMC so bustling. Can't wait to see the rest of your journey! Enjoy :)
I never been to Vietnam thanks for bringing some of us there Ken, safe travel and take care
7:00 it not chinese temple lol it temple of vietnamese mandarin governor of the south. Btw vietnam used Han Nom writing system ( based on chinese like japanese kanji and korea befor they switching to hangul , vietnam depite being in south east asia our culture are east asia ) our latin alphabet system was only adapt recent in 1945 to help combat iliterate
Hi Ken. I was in HCM City in 68/69. The Vietnamese people have been through a lot. I'm pleased to see they have the opportunity of not having to deal with major conflicts. They finally have a chance.
after all the years of resistance its well deserved 👍
I would love to See hcm with my own eyes at that time- i was Born in hcm 2002 but i moved the same year
@@maxlol1173 Hi Max. HCM was a down trodden city at that time. War was a ll around. When I look at the recent videos of the city I'm so happy that the people are and are recovering from the ravages of the past. The French, the Vietnam War, having to oust Pot Pol from Cambodia, disagreements with the Chinese, lots of conflicts preventing Vietnamese society from prospering. Finally, the economic embargo was lifted in the mid 90's. The Vietnamese are good people and at this time the young people of Vietnam don't have be too concerned about combat coming to their doorsteps. Many parts of HCM City look beautiful and I'm pleased to see that.
@@PrescottJackson-ih9ow Also, their history is one of having to fight off foreigner after foreigner trying to take over their land. But they fought them all back again and again....fought the Mongols, whom were brutal and fierce and couldn't conquer Vietnam.
Before using the latin alphabet in 18th century, vietnamese used the Nôm which was the same as chinese character, some of Nôm liked as Chinese and others was different.
Enjoy Vietnam Ken, we did Hanoi to Saigon was fabulous cheers
Hello Ken.....nice video as always. Looking forward to riding with you and enjoying Vietnam through your videos 🙂 ☺️
Different experience in every country Ken.Enjoy and stay safe❤🇵🇭
Nice to see you didn't go straight to D1 like most people
I stayed in D7 my first days and it was amazing to see the locals how surprised they were to see tall foreigner in their neighborhood 😁
Have google translation on quick access, vietnamese is hard to learn
You should visit the 5th district of Saigon city, where you will find something new and interesting for you.
It's understandable why English isn't spoken as widely there as other countries...whilst Vietnam was busy fighting wars (it's a country riddle with war in it's history, unlike Thailand or the Philippines), other countries enjoy peace and allowed US military bases or had a history of British colonization. However, the younger kids are starting to learn English more.
I`m lookiing at this with a nostalgic feeling, we all have places we wish to visit, one of those places for me is Vietnam, I can`t even explain it to myself why because there are so many destinations.
And to see you there on arrival, it`s for me like "i wish i were there" Thanks for sharing, I look forward to future videos so as to enjoy your adventures thru your lenses.
What do you think, where there catch the bird? And sell them?
Xin Chao, Ken....Yayyyyyy....here goes another coooooooool adventure with Ken in Saigon aka Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I'm tagging along again, Ken 🙌😀
Let's go 🤙💪
Love your friendliness you seem like a guy with appetite for life best wishes an safe travel bud
I have watched other TH-camrs to travel to Ha Long Bay and Da Nang, where are beautiful, I suggest you go there also!
That temple is called "上公廟", and the characters are now called Mandarin. The word "Chinese" is no longer used, because China no longer uses traditional Chinese!
上公 is 黎文悅. To put it simply, he is a local hero, he has a Chinese adopted son who is in charge of the trade between the two countries.
Because of his contribution to the local area, later generations built a temple to commemorate and thank him!
I know Cranes and tortoises are representatives of longevity in Eastern culture, and they are symbols of auspiciousness wherever they appear! But I am not sure is that bird a crane.
The street food at the end looked delicious, and the warmth of the locals convinced me that a smile is the best language! You did a really great job, thanks a lot for sharing！👍😄👏
No! Your information is wrong! It's obvious that you don't understand Chinese language! The "Chinese characters" is NEVER called "Mandarin"! Mandarin is the spoken Chinese, so there is NO "Mandarin characters"! Both simplified and traditional characters belong to China! It's always called Chinese characters!!
Please judge whether the information is correct or not, and don’t believe in purposeful wrong information!
@@giannishen Please don't be too fake!! Mandarin is only a spoken Chinese - 官話！But for the written form of Chinese, NOBODY would use the term "Mandarin" to call the characters... Do you understand??!
Please look up the meaning of "Mandarin" by yourself, you will be clearer, and you don't need to read purposeful error messages!
The language used in China is not Chinese at all, but a fake characters created by CCP itself!
Jasmine tea.. 😁 Actually, Thailand in general is pretty clean, come to think of it. Almost no trash anywhere. Compared to Malaysia and Indonesia - rural West Malaysia is REALLY bad. People just seem to throw garbage everywhere. East Malaysia is different, I've stayed at an Iban longhouse (way out in the middle of nowhere) and there was NO garbage lying around. People do tend to collect garbage in Indonesia, but they burn it right there, plastics included. What REALLY impresses me about Thailand is the toilets - REALLY clean, if you're used to Malaysian ones. (One thing I didn't know - but I learned from TH-cam.. 😁is that in Thailand you can always find public toilets in temples... )
Enjoy your tour in Viatnam,love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰❤️
Enjoying to see you how much fun you have while discovering a new country. Can’t wait for your next video. 😊
Ken, dalat is one of the place u don't want to miss. Dalat is so called the little Paris. I love dalat.
I also love Dalat. It could be boiling in Saigon and it will be nice and comfortable in Dalat. Not very far from Saigon, but up in the mountains.
The turtle and crane statue represents eternal friendship and co-operation.
Please continue vlogging, I enjoy viewing your experiences in each new country 😊
Welcome to Vietnam
Hope u enjoy a wonderful time in Vietnam country 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
Thanks a lot 🙏
Enjoy your trip there ken
Have a safe travel in your new journey in vietnam ken .they are also very friendly take care.👍😍🙏🇵🇭
Thanks for the entertaining video! My experience is that English is spoken more widely in Vietnam, particularly amongst the younger folks than it is here in Thailand, where I live.
you were a good man to buy one bird and reliease :) nice experience !
Usually the same bird will return and fall into the same trap and get resold again. You did not really buy freedomm for the bird. To answer your question, Vietnamese believe this will bring good luck. You will see them selling birds near budha temples
Would love to visit Vietnam in the future. Looks very tourist-friendly. Greetings from Croatia!
Pozdrav u kuci! You are welcome to Vietnam :) greetings from a Vietnamese :))
Hi
Happy for you, Vietnam is beautiful
Make a lot of videos
Have a good time and safe trip in Vietnam. Good luck.
Thanks 💪
I went twice to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). U must visit Malaysia Street… U will feel that U are somehow in Malaysia! 🤣 must visit Ben Thanh market, U can even make affordable suits here at a good price, ready in. 24 hours & send to your hotel. Plus must visit Cu Chi Tunnel & the museum
I traveled to Vietnam 🇻🇳 last summer. Saigon is cool 😎 I rode on a Gojek scooter. Crazy traffic, man. Be careful of the street food. They don't wash the vegetables with filtered water. Make sure everything you eat is cooked. You don't want the dreaded travel bug. Our gut biome can't handle it. You ate a Banh Mi in your video. Good luck 😆
Some people use Google translate to communicate with the locals, and it works quite well
Glad your back to work Ken! Always enjoy your videos! Looks like your having a blast in Vietnam! Do you ever plan to go back and live in Germany?
No, going back to Germany to live there isn't planned currently
You can try Phở, Bún Bò Huế, Cà phê sữa đá Việt Nam, so delicious
Up north is nice too, Hanoi & Sapa where the tribes speak some English.
Han hanh duoc gap ban. It means nice to meet you.
Nice vid, have fun in Vietnam👌🏻
Thanks 👍😊
Hi ken i was in vietnam yesterday didn't get a chance to see you around in the city..
love the content, would love to visit Vietnam in the future ❤️
So it's back to Vietnam, but probably to a city which you didn't go the last time round....It always nice to try to communicate with locals...Actually, my favorite is the Ao Dai , the tradisional Vietnamese dresses which the ladies wear with a hat as well.... Very elegant... Those stool are typical Vietnamese.... Gotta get used to it...and nothing like street food experiences and hot grilled meat...lol ...and Yeah, Ho Chi Minh City... I wanna see this city.... Jom!!
Yeah right, 3 years ago I've only been to the north
I was guessing you'd go to Vietnam next, have a good time in my home country
Thank you 😊
Haven't read all the replies so not sure if others have answered your questions, but I'll try:
1) I'm not Buddhist though so this might be incorrect, but in Vietnam, people buy birds and fish to release because they believe it will being good karma to them, it's called Phóng Sanh
2) China used to dominate Vietnam for thousands of years, because of that influence, we used to write in Chinese characters, but we have different spoken language. Until the French came to Vietnam, then they brought Roman letters to us, they actually helped us create our written language now that's not characters. We're the only country in Asia that uses Roman letters and not characters
3) Until recently, English was not the chosen language to teach in school, Russian was. That's why a lot of older generation do not speak English well. Find younger people and they are more than likely to speak English to help you. In the last 20 years Vietnam started to understand English is the language to interact with outside world and has started to teach more in schools is what i heard
Have a good time in Vietnam, i haven't been back for 20 years and i left since 1994 so it's fun seeing Saigon again
Ho chi minh was a lot for us too 😅 we just posted our Da Nang vlogs though! I'll be editing our Ho Chi Minh ones soon, crazy times haha
nice destination ken, i am very curious about your trip
Oh blooody heeeellllll, you just missed Com Tam (Grilled pork with rice and fish sauce), a holy grail of food in HCM city
and by the way, you got robbed for those grilled porks...
isn't that what he ate without the rice?
yes, this is com tam
The world can learn so much from the Vietnamese....forgiveness, for a start
From my understanding, Vietnam used to be part of China and then gained independence so there are a lot of remains of Chinese governs there, I’m not sure if you can say that is not Chinese, cause usually when I consider British remains in the colonies, I’d say that’s still a British building rather than part of the local culture, but people may have different thoughts on that.
Thankyou , brings back happy memories and yes it takes a bit of getting use tos eeing so many bikes. How are navigating across the roads? It takes confidence to journey across and face the oncoming traffic. Enjoy.
Hi, Ken. As you can see the characters from the temple which are Chinese characters. As ancient Vietnam didn't have their own characters, and it was the dependency of ancient China, then the Vietnamese borrow Chinese characters as their own official characters. FYI. Thank you~
What a warm welcome 🤗 to give you a bag of peanuts.
A big welcome to my country ! Thanks to visit and promote VN. Enjoy and have a good time ahead in VN. Be careful when driving in Sai Gon. I’ll travel to Thailand on Apr and thank to your video I get alots of information then 😊.
Thanks a lot 💪 enjoy Thailand 🤙
You should try and meet up with Dustin&Reche they have left Hanoi and are in Da Nang now,I'm sure they will be heading for Ho Chi Minh soon,it would be super cool for you to make a vlog with them.
You should try to link up with Chris Lewis and Max McFarlin - two American youtubers based in Vietnam that speak perfect Vietnamese. Max is a food reviewer and Chris does general travel videos. Both super smart and can speak multiple languages (Hindi, Urdu, Japanese, Chinese etc).
Great video. Thanks Ken 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Ken you forgot to make a wish when you set the bird free. That's ok, you will still be blessed.
I didnt know they use chinese characters too! I also learned something new!
Because Chinese peoples everywhere in the World, you know
stay positive & stay safe. would be along with your travel experience in vietnam.
Welcome back to VN my friend . Hope you will enjoy more this current trip than the previous one . During the Covid period , people were more cautious and nervous so why your first visit in North Vietnam was not very pleasant . BTW how did you know this district . Ba Chieu is actually a very local area , not many tourists come here so why most of the vendors don't speak English . FYI in VN the turtle is one of the four sacred animals ( Dragon , Lion/Unicorn ,Turtle and Phoenix) in our mythology . It's the symbol of longevity, hard working and resilience , so why this animal is always present in pagodas , temples or mausoleums, carrying on its back either an heron or a stele meaning everlasting devotion to Buddha , the deities or the buried person in the tomb .
One advice for you : just be careful with your valuables like camera , bag , wallet , Iphone , watch , etc...while strolling in those low-end districts because after the pandemic many people here are jobless and financially not too good . So they might try to do some reprehensive things to make their living . Don't tempt the Devil . It's better be safe than sorry . Are you planning to explore more regions in the South and the Center of VN . I highly recommend you to check-out the Mekong delta , Phu Quoc island , Con Dao island , Nha Trang , Dalat , the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyen) , Da Nang , Hoi An , Hue and Phong Nha/Ke Bang .
Have a nice and safe trip in Vietnam Bro .
Thanks a lot 🙏
Schöne Grüße aus dem Tambayan am Bulabog Beach. 😁Hab das hier gleich aus deinem Video erkannt.
Are there internet problems out there? I heard the last submarine cable had a disruption.
Hello Ken, those Chinese characters are old Vietnamese writing before the French changed them into ALPHABETICAL in 17th century
Chinese characters because as long long time ago we used this same like a traditional words. That is an part of history, you can check something in wikipedia to know.
The writing on the temple most likely not Chinese. It’s the old ancient Vietnamese writing. It looks like mandarin but it’s ancient Vietnamese characters before the transformation to the current writing.
It's Traditional Chinese, just like Japan, and Korea, Vietnam is also one of the Sinophere countries (heavily influenced by Chinese culture). Before the 19th century, Vietnam used Chinese characters for official writing language, so even now you still can see Chinese characters in some ancient buildings in Vietnam...
Nice kuya Ken very good
Awesome video
Love your videos
Love your vlog, thank you for the great videos! As for the birds on the street - it's a Buddhist tradition to buy and release the birds to earn "good karma" points. Unfortunately, some people use this as an opportunity to make money. They capture the birds, sell them for release, and often recapture them again. Of course, knowing that I personally would still release them anyway!
Hey Ken, which microphone do you use? Seems to be darn good.
The link in the description seems to be old and doesn't open any page.
This video was almost completely filmed without any microphone, just the camera
@@KenAbroad Whoa! Which camera do you use? If go-pro, which version?
I just bought go pro 10. Thinking to buy a mod and a microphone.
BTW, I'll also be in Vietnam in 3 weeks time.
Last year, I was in Sri Lanka. Just a couple of weeks before you went there. It's a small world. 😄
@Wandering Monk I'm using a dji osmo action 1
Welcome to Vietnam!
Thank you 😊
Welcome you come to vietnam .... my country ..... i hope you have a great time here .
Thank you very much 😊
@@KenAbroad hey , if you have time i want to invite you to come hoc mon town .... i have a small bussiness for the food .... i m selling the food for breakfast and the name of the food i make them vietnamese call it hu tieu gio heo ...... i think english call it pork soup noddles ... im sorry my english not good .... i just learning english by myself on youtube ..
Enjoy in Vietnam🇻🇳
You can ask them ( bao nhieu tien ) it means how much does it cost?
I love that city. We will be there in December. If you want a good dinner, check out The Deck.
How long are you there?
A few weeks ✌️
Central Vietnam has the best weather and French architecture. City of Da Lat is where the French headquarters was for 40 yrs and monopolized the rice crop and caused a ramen thus caused HoChi Minh to get support to kick them out.
Nice one 👍🙏
Firstly I just want to say thank you for your quality content, Ken! I have a question I would like to ask you; comparing Vietnam to Thailand, which country has the better level of English among its average local population?
I'd say it's pretty similar. As soon as you leave the tourist areas, the level of English gets quite low, at least among the older generations
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