For today’s national holiday, we visited Go Cap Van,
otherwise known as Golden Scorpion Lake.
We rode our motorbike there, even taking it across the river on a big
ferry. The further we drove, the more
isolated and rural the landscape became, eventually resembling shanty towns. The
roads became dirt and we saw lots of Vietnamese selling their local produce,
straight from their farms.
At the Lake, we got a picnic spot for lunch, suntanned,
caught up on our reading and relaxed while watching the Vietnamese around us
drink and eat in the small huts, celebrate the holiday, sleep in the hammocks
and even do obstacle courses and walk on stilts. And what would a trip to a
lake be without swimming? We had to wear dorky orange life vests, but the water
was perfect and there was lots to do – water slides, boats, water polo, high
jumps (from wooden platforms) into the lake and even slip and slides (on the
surface of the water).
So, my dish of the day comes from our picnic lunch at Go Cap
Van – Com (Tam) Suon. We got a generous helping of sticky rice, a
huge pork chop with a sweet-bbq flavour, coleslaw and side soy-chili sauce. We washed it down with a big pitcher of cold
Vietnamese-style iced tea.
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