Today we bid farewell to Ho Chi Minh City on our Vietnam 2026 trip for a couple of days to stay in Vũng Tàu on the coast. The small peninsula was a popular retreat for the French colonialists, and is famed within Vietnam for its seafood and large beach. HCMC has become so big that the Vũng Tàu is officially considered part of its metro area, but it still has its own distinct history, character, and charm. Before setting off, we had a salt coffee with condensed milk and a baguette from a local café, which was surprisingly tasty. I mean that in the sense that you wouldn’t expect salt in coffee to make it taste nice, but it does help reduce bitterness slightly. This is why people like James Hoffman talk about adding saline to darker roasts. Anyway, tasty! Our first stop was the Áo dài museum just outside where we were staying in the Vintown Grand Park. Like the lotus lake we visited yesterday, accessing it took us along a modern highway, then increasingly narrower and more wooded roads,…
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