It's ridiculously hot and stuff in Saigon (and Vietnam in general) and since I suffered from uncomfortable heat rash for 4 days and had to be cooped up indoors, when we went to a water park yesterday, I went berserk. I got some phenomenal energy and just ran around straight for the 2 hours we were there (which is quite the adrenaline and cardiac workout). It was a bit surreal because the park was like anywhere else except I was surrounded by vietnamese, and nobody seemed interested in the big slides. I had pretty much no lines the whole time! My travel companions chilled out by the pool and I just kept racing around. The lifeguards at the slides were reading magazines the whole time since noone was coming and it was funny to see the look of surprise they had when they looked up and saw me for the 10th time. After a while, I got a good repoire with them since they started applauding me and giving me thumbs up everytime I went down which only added to my crazy energy. It was pretty funny. So all in all, the water bug in me came out and it was just a lovely time.
Another interesting park attraction is they literally had a sign that said "New Sunbathing deck for foreigners!". Why just foreigners? Because there's no chance any native in Vietnam wants to bronze since white skin is desired. I even have a hard time finding regular sunscreen without extra whitening cream added. Quite the irony.
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