What is your holiday in Thanhoa? I will answer simple. With rice checks of striking soft - green, with bright national clothes, in which local women are dressed, with warm blue sea and with warm smiles on the faces of the local residents. So I want to take it into your world with you all this, but it is unfortunately impossible. Probably for such romantics as I, and souvenirs were invented. I love to bridge from each trip, the part of the country in which I visited. Perhaps you will say that much better save information, photos. I will not argue, but in souvenirs there is your own chip, which I can not explain in words, as it is necessary to feel.
What to bring from Thanhoha as a souvenir, and how much it costs?
First place in my ranking, takes - Pointed Vietnamese Hat . Do you know why? Because only in this country can buy it in the original performance. These hats are made of straw and carry them everything from Mala to Great, men, children and women. For greater unity with a local flavor, I got myself such a hat. What do you say? Uncomfortable, but it is probably just with unaccustomed, because we are more accustomed to baseball caps, panamans and glamorous hats with wide fields. What do not say, but it is necessary to be born and grow in Vietnam to wear such a national headdress. But as a souvenir - a pointed hat, just a gorgeous thing that is only fifty Russian rubles (translated for better orientation in prices).
Honorary second place, I give - Vietnamese vodka with a snake . I really like bottles in which this potion is sold. Yes, it is the potion, because inside such a puzzled bottle of bizarre form, there is a double twisted snake complete with wondrous roots. The cost of such an unusual souvenir or gift for beloved mother-in-law is on average, only a hundred rubles, but the pleasure of mass. I didn't try this drug, but one of the bottles presented my friend. So this very familiar, after the adoption of vodka inside, remained alive and moreover, he argued that this drink is very normal in flavoring. Traders who sell this vodka claim that it has healing properties, but only the one that is sold with the snake. In addition to snakes, bottles, you can see such cute creatures, like lizards, sea skates, scorpions, frogs and other charms. Want to pretend to be a true original thing that will not be ignored and will produce a real extension - present, vodka with a snake!
Third place, firmly occupy - Vietnamese tinctures and medicines . Preparing them here, without adding chemistry, which means that they are essentially natural and environmentally friendly medicine. We all are well acquainted, popular in the Soviet times Balsam "Star". Be sure to buy it here, in original quality, since it is very different from what they are sold in our pharmacies. As for, pharmacies. Purchase medications and tinctures, only in pharmacies is, it is very important! Do not give in to the temptation, buy a bright box with a drug, on the market, even if it is given to you in vain. More importantly, it is important to remember, so this is what all medicines should be used in small quantities after having studied the instructions in the most thorough way.
Fourth place, I will give - National Vietnamese clothing , which is called AO Dai (AO DAI) . A bright colorful outfit, sewished from natural silk, has a kind of fashionable and modern, so it is necessary to buy a favorite as a present. It can be worn on both on the street and use as home clothes while receiving guests. Most of all I like pants from this costume, they have a free cut and practically weightless texture. When I first put on them, even during fitting, I didn't immediately understand that I had clothes, because it was visible in the mirror, but it's not felt on the body at all.
Fifth place occupy - Pictures Of course Vietnamese. Basically, but the canvases depicts a simple rural life, but as it is depicted, it just needs to be seen! In the fifth place, paintings in my list were hit for the reason that they, although stunningly beautiful, but occupy a lot of space in the suitcase. I really liked the picture, which was made from the seashells, but I didn't buy it only because I was afraid that I was simply not brought to the original form and on the road, most of this beauty can disappear or crash. Even, there are paintings written in the tree. The most exciting, as in my opinion, are silk paintings that play the richest overflow of paints.
Sixth place, I will give - Vietnamese Coffee and tea . Here you have, what an association arises from the word "tea". Yes, China, right. In China, really, very good tea and I had pleasure to try, but Vietnamese green tea, I want to tell you, not worse than Chinese. Grow tea, in Vietnam in the central highlands. If you decide to buy this drink, then it is best to do it in supermarkets, because it is cheaper and you are intensifying yourself from acquiring poor-quality drink. Vietnamese coffee is, in general, a separate song! He is just amazing. I am in my nature, a terrible coofer and if I treat tea calmly, then without coffee I just can not live. I bought myself two packages of this magnificent coffee, one package in grains, and the second with ground coffee. The first in the move went ground, because it is not accepted for a long time to store, and the one is in the grains, I carefully stored in the jar and heats my soul with his delicious aroma.
Seventh place - Vietnamese Pearl . Very popular and running goods. Products from pearls, here are found very often and they have the most incredible shades. You can easily, buy a bracelet or beads from yellow, pink, black or traditional white pearls.
There are such decorations, very inexpensive, but should be extremely attentive during the purchase, because the fakes are enough here, and you can easily slip down the poor-quality goods.