SaigonSighs13, It’s the longest in the world, view it at cooperman88.wordpress.com

21 Feb
The cable car on Phu Quoc island is just under 9 kilometres long, straddles 3 islands and ends with a water theme park located in the gloriously warm tropical sea.
It starts with ‘faux’ Roman / Greek Amphitheatre type ruins where you can buy the tickets – 100,500 Dong if you’re a local. 300,000 Dong if you’re an alien.
And ends with this. the end Island is by no means finished and is still ‘work in progress. BUT————–
On the other side of the end Island is this! It will undoubtedly be cleaned up and developed one day. Just not yet!

Phu Quoc Island is one of the original ‘Spice’ Islands and has changed hands with Cambodia many times over the centuries. It is actually nearer to Cambodia than Vietnam. It became infamous during the war years for it’s prison which cruelly treated and often murdered communists and their sympathisers. Just as the communists did to Americans and their collaborators captured from the south.

A stand of pepper plants. These will be the the little black things you buy in a twee jar from Waitrose. This industry is diminishing whilst tourism is booming. There is also a flourishing cultured pearl industry and is becoming known as the ‘Pearl’ Island
Morning coffee and breakfast! Vietnam is the second largest producer of coffee in the world so it takes many forms. The main two are – Ca Phe sua da. pronounced /Ka fay sir daaaa. This is iced coffee in a long glass sweetened with condensed milk, basically a cold liquid Mars bar. Then there is Ca Phe sua nam. A small cup of hot filtered coffee that drips onto – yes you’ve guessed it – condensed milk! Breakfast today was a warm light bread roll – a legacy from the French colonial days – called Banh Mi – and two fried eggs – called ‘Opla –aaaa – a very long ‘a’ sound. They do pepper but not salt, however you are given a little dish, one side is chilly sauce and the other side is Soya sauce which is very salty so I use that instead of salt on my eggs. There is a small portion of finely grated red cabbage and lettuce to complement.
A ‘Rosette’ of dried fish on a market in the village of Cua Can Phu Quoc Island
A 1950’s Russian motorbike and sidecar based on BMW mechanics. A war remnant with a few modern bits added!
And finally my retirement project!

Hated word of the week – ‘ABSOLUTELY’ used by the British middle classes when ‘YES’ is just not enough!

2 Responses to “SaigonSighs13, It’s the longest in the world, view it at cooperman88.wordpress.com”

  1. Colin Dix's avatar
    Colin Dix 02/21/2020 at 2:42 pm #

    Good read John,

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