My retirement ~ Traveling to Vietnam, Zhudu

Apart from Sri Lanka, I will never forget my travels over the years. There is another place I really want to go again, and that is the bamboo capital of Vietnam.

On that trip, Zhudu was just a stopover. We came out from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, and the return ticket was from Ho Chi Minh City. If it is too far to go directly from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh and it is uncomfortable to take a bus, we want to find a place to rest, so we choose to take a boat from Phnom Penh to Zhudu along the Mekong River.

Zhudu is a small town near the sea, located in the Houjiang River basin, and it is a pearl of the Mekong River Delta, with a distance of Cambodia 1 1 km.

Except for the five of us, everyone else is European and American. They are not afraid of the heat, so they all sit outside in the sun. We all hid in the boat. The scenery along the way is very beautiful. Many children on the shore waved to us naked. As the sun set, the river became wider and wider. The whole Mekong River appears bright golden yellow in the afterglow of sunset. The warm wind on the river brought the unique flowers and fragrant rice in the tropical air, bringing their thoughts to Duras' lover.

On the boat, the man in the picture helped us to enter Vietnam, but we also had to disembark and stamp ourselves.

Zhudu is known as the "water town", where people live a simple life. Compared with Cambodia, Vietnamese children feel much happier. Even in such a small town, they saw the shadow of going to school, unlike the children in Siem Reap, who were left with their heads in the scenic spot, which made people feel pitiful.

The most unforgettable thing is Zhudu's aquatic forest. I rented a boat and went through the dense forest. The boat hovered among the trees, just like a painting in a fairyland, with a unique style.

Walking around the town, there was a small shop owner and an uncle in his seventies and eighties. As soon as he heard that we were from China, he called out his son and told him excitedly that he was from our motherland, saying that he had never come back since he left China, and that we were the first people he had seen in China for so long. Unfortunately, he didn't leave any photos, but the excited look of the uncle remained in his mind.

Every morning in Judu, I like to sit in front of a very humble coffee shop, watching people on the road come and go leisurely, drinking coffee and eating sticks, and I also like to sit at the door and have a midnight snack, where my thoughts are always brought to Duras' lover. I also hope it will rain heavily.

Over the years, I have been to many different places and seen many different scenery, but this seaside town, Zhudu, has too much reluctance and nostalgia. Some people say that I love a city because there are people I like living in it. In fact, falling in love with a city may be for a vivid scenery in the city.