Da Lat VN

True to myself, I had to escape this big and nightmarish hot Saigon. After taking information, the ENTIRE country is hot like hell! My fate is to die in Vietnam :-§ What do you understand in this last smiley? Noooo, I will die old, fulfilled, after having taught my wisdom and having helped shaping a better world. :-) She's cute! They still have hope at this age.

There are 2 countryside cities where I am able to survive. One has been founded by the French colonists at the end of the 19th century, in order to escape the Vietnamese heat. Smart buddies! Thank you for coming before me, hihi! It is in the southern Vietnam, not too far from Saigon. Da Lat: 1500m above sea level, cool weather, cold nights: "City of the eternal spring" I love it!
After 3 days of struggling to adjust again to the temperature, things came back for good. I could start a proper recovering process. Good sleep, good food, proper hours, a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. 

I found a cheap hostel, the Villa Cam Ly, in a quiet area of the city. Young friends running the business, listening to electronic music, playing guitar, full of positive energy. I'm close to the natural side of Da Lat, fields are 5min walking distance :-) and the vegetarian restaurant is next door, hehe!  
Tranquillement, à mon rythme (pas celui des touristes), je visite les environs. Je fais une grande sortie un après-midi sur deux. Repos le jour suivant. Oui, Dieu s'est reposé le 7ème jour uniquement, mais il est 'achement fort, lui ! Je marche, visite un peu, cherche des petits coins agréables, prends des photos. Le matin, j'essaie d'approfondir mes connaissances sur les chakras, les hasta mudras : positions des mains, leurs symboliques et bienfaits sur le corps et l'esprit. Cette retraite me fait énormément de bien. Rohit, my Indian Guru, would be very pleased to hear that I am working hard on chakras, mudras... :-)         

Cimetière : quelques collines remplies de sépultures,
bouddhistes et chrétiènnes mélangées
Les anciens ont la meilleure vue de la ville ;-)

Quiet evening in the city

Tuan, member of the Villa Cam Ly team

Saigon VN

Voilà voilà voilà voilà, je suis dans un nouveau pays, hehehe ! Ca faisait longtemps, hein ? Le changement vous manquait ? Moi... un peu... mais pas tant que ça. I am in Vietnam. 

Bangalore -> Singapore (stop for 24h), then Singapore -> Ho Chi Minh City.

In Singapore, I hitchhiked despite it is strictly forbidden, and avoided a big fine. ;-) Being a rebel is part of me, not for the sake of, but when it is justified. Most of the time for the freedom of expression. I need to express myself, as Rozenn, as a citizen of this planet, as a fighter for ethical values. 

I heard (while hitchhiking precisely) that when you are Singaporean les autres nationalités peuvent se brosser, Martine ! and turn 25, you got a flat, easy, communist way! But, you don't choose it, communist way. Every floor of a building welcomes a mix of the actual proportion of the different communities living in the country, communist way?

Il fait chaud et humide à Singapour. Petit avant goût...  

Saïgon, 7h du mat : Boudiou de Boudiou ! C'est HO-Rrii-BLEuuu °#&*gr^~ ça fait comment dans les bandes dessinées ? Ma version ne donne pas grand chose, je trouve... ! Il fait trop chaud dans ce pays de médeux (orthographe ?) !

Yes, indeed, all right, I thought so, of course, Ho Chi Minh City is hot... But I mean: REALLLLLY hot! And for the ones who haven't read the last messages, I am f.... tired! I could not adjust the weather. Y'avait pas moyen pour mon corps de s'adapter au climat. Mon corps dit non, il en a marre. Il ne veut plus. Paresseux au plus haut point. Bref, je souffre. Il souffre. En voilà une belle affaire !

Huong saved me while welcoming me the first days in this hostile Vietnam. Except the weather, my first impression of Vietnam is that the country has a strong French touch: very artistic oriented (Bohemian music bar for instance), very Frenchy elegant people, romantic boys, of course French architecture, nobody can speak English hihi... I'll complete the list later. This stroke me after the British India, obviously!     

For the last country in my Eastern Trip, I chose Vietnam. The reason? Because it is a communist and Buddhist country. :-) Let's see how I can experience it, learn more. Let me see how they manage as well, in this capitalistic world ;-)  

Thank you Dear :-)

Still tired, but in process of recovering
I swam again!!

Officiellement la Cathédrale Notre Dame de Saïgon.
La version Viet de la nôtre, en brique rouge

Pas de voiture, que des scooters
ça va être moins facile de faire du stop
Car, ici, il FAUT un casque :-/

Recentrage, reconnecter le corps et l'esprit
Devant une tasse de café Vietnamien
Pas le plus futé cependant hehe !

Green Path ending India

My last days in India, in Karnataka, in Bangalore, in Green Path www.thegreenpath.in. The photos give an overview of my activities. I've done a lot. Promoting Green Path at a tourism exhibition: “Good concept, good people”! Don’t laugh at me, guys? I really feel that way! Thank you for the fun times, by the way ;-) Doing millet experiments thanks to Jayaram and Raji who provided me the precious equipment: an Oven! Comparing sorghum, popped sorghum, ragi flour, ragi huri hittu and other millets flour. Teaching Green Path cooks some French or western recipes: cake, muffins, cookies, bread… I had no time to think I was leaving India, good point! No heartbreaking good bye, no tears. The travel goes on, life goes on. The next destination in the next message! 

Neil, trying to sell Green Path, hehehe!
"Good concept, good people" I'm telling you!

Raji and my breads 

Cute experimental breads

Tired but concentrated

Cooking students, Mandal assiduous, easy for the teacher ;-)

Experimental chocolate cakes

Jayaram and the Green Path mobile shop

Gopal, soooo coool singing sessions
with guitars and flute!