Hi everybody. How is everyone today? So a Christmas 2021 has passed and we are starting the countdown for a new year. Are there any plans still unfinished for a year that you have not been able to implement? These days, I've been under a lot of pressure and unlucky things, making me feel tired and want to avoid everything. At such times, I want to have a friend to confide in, to have a long day of thinking, to hang out with my close friends. It's the best thing at the moment.Winter is the ideal time, to discover alluring beauties in cold weather. Occasionally, suddenly, there are warm rays of sunlight. In the last days of the year, I was invited by friends to join an outdoor picnic on the outskirts of the city. The location that we chose, was at a river, located in the Hoa Bac area.
Referring to Da Nang, we will mention famous places such as Ba Na Hill, My Khe beach and Son Tra peninsula, the scenic Marble Mountains. But in recent years, Hoa Bac has always been a favorite spot of young people every weekend. Because this place is a new tourist area being exploited, it is still not widely known. My today's post will introduce everyone to this place.
Hoa Bac is a commune in Hoa Vang district of Da Nang city, Vietnam. This place is located 30km from the center of Da Nang city, in the north. Following the sea route, Nguyen Tat Thanh, at the end of the seaway, we turned right and entered National Highway 1A. On the highway, we will pass Nam O bridge. Here we bought the essentials for the picnic, such as fishing lines and bait, and food for the trip. From this place, we started moving onto Ngo Xuan Thu street, going along Cu De river. About 15km away, at the map position on the map "16.128007, 108.065673" there is a large lawn. We started parking the car here and brought the necessary items down the Cu De riverbank. Cu De River is a large river, formed from two branches of the North and South rivers, originating from the majestic Truong Son range, the Cu De river has a length of 30km, flowing into the Nam O sea. This place is blessed with unspoiled landscapes and cool streams flowing from the surrounding high mountains. After setting up the camping tent, we continued to pump the SUP board boat, to row to explore the Cu De river. SUP boating is a popular outdoor sports activity, in recent years. It helps us to explore the most difficult to reach areas and good fitness. At the river, there are many alluvial flats, formed from the middle of the river. I and my friends set foot on this miniature island, with smooth green lawns and super beautiful sunset, from behind the high mountains. This trip of us includes 5 people, there are two other friends of mine, fishing at the edge of the rock on the river. Rowing SUP along this river, we have discovered a lot of beautiful points of this river, because we are on the water, we cannot use the camera, to take and save the beautiful pictures of the beautiful land. here. After an afternoon of exploring the Cu De River, we started to return to the shore to prepare for a wonderful evening.
As it started to get dark, we had a small problem. The location here did not allow camping overnight and forced us to leave this area. After deciding for a while, we chose another location near this area at a stream not far from that location. This stream is located on an agricultural farm, there are very nice lawns around and you can camp overnight. It is also less affected by cold winds than the riverbank. High mountain ranges shield this place, making it less affected by winter winds. After camping in the tent, there are many trees and two trees are lying parallel to each other, we hooked up 3 hammocks vertically, which looks nice from below. It will be very difficult, for the person lying on top, but it's not too difficult, for my friends. After finishing the sleeping place, we split up to look for firewood to prepare to cook dinner. The weather in recent days, there are always showers and the firewood here is very wet, that makes it very difficult to light a fire. A friend in my group has chopped each log, inside of the logs will usually dry out and it will be easier to light a fire.
At night, the water in the stream is quite cold, this is the time when the snails from the stream start to feed at night, there are many from under the rocks. We have caught snails to make dinner This area also has a lot of fish, our fishing lures are earthworms. The friends in my group are very good fishers, we caught a lot of fish. After a night of going fishing and snails, the team's result was catching a lot of snails and fish. We made the fried snails with chili and ginger, along with the fish sauce. The fish will be marinated with spices to grill on a wood stove. The indispensable main dish is grilled chicken, which is the only dish, which we prepare from home.
After we finished eating, we sat together by the fire. Let's look back at a year that has passed, with how many events have happened in the past year. Each person will tell about their work and the trips that everyone has taken in the past year.2021 is the year I just applied to a university. I just started working part-time, so I don't have enough conditions to go to many places like everyone else. Through each person's stories, also helps me reorient my negative thoughts in the past time. If I look back over the past year, I managed to get into the school and major that I loved. In the past year, my family has faced difficulties due to the epidemic. So it has more or less affected my life. I have started a part-time job with photography, I don't know if this will be my main job in the future, but it is my main source of income, so I can help my family part of tuition fees at university.
After a while with my friends, it helps me have more positive thoughts in life. The campfire also started to fade away, and I came up with an idea, which was to take the burning branches of a tree and use them to create unique exposure photos. I shot with a low shutter speed, the rays of light were captured by me at a low speed, creating long light trails and a friend of mine helped hold the flame, creating very impressive light trails. Originally a heart shape and an infinity symbol. Then I asked another friend to model, someone would run around my friend, to create the light around. Create beautiful and very impressive works. After taking pictures for a while, we started to return to the tent area to rest and catch the sunrise the next morning. I slept in a tent, instead of sleeping in a hammock, because I can't stand the cold temperatures at night here.
After a long night, the sun also began to shine at about 5 o'clock and it was very cold, I woke up and stepped out of the tent to see the surrounding scenery here. Because it was quite cold that day, the clouds, blocking the sun's rays made it impossible for us to catch the sunrise. The stream is clearly in the early morning, with green lawns on both sides of the stream, and high mountains surrounding create a beautiful wild landscape. We had breakfast together and enjoyed a cup of coffee in the morning, which helps us have more valuable energy after a long night. Then we started to clean up the trash around the area. Return calm to this stream we started moving back to the city, ending our picnic. Maybe this is the last picnic in 2021, for me as well as for my friends, this trip also helped me, answered the questions that I have thought about in the past time. It helps me have a more positive mindset in life and will hope a new year will bring many changes, as well as my beliefs and aspirations.
Thank you all for viewing my post. Wish everyone have a good day and have a happy new year in life. See you all in the next post.