After the first 10 days driving along the US West Coast, Ms. Chu Phuong Linh (35 years old, Hanoi) and her group of friends stayed on a 7,000-person yacht to explore the Bahamas for 5 days.
In the following days, from Miami, Florida, she flew to the island nation of Antigua & Barbuda and hired a small 7-bedroom yacht to start a journey along 4 other island countries in the Caribbean for 11 days.
Pics in the Bahamas
Ms. Linh's group had a 5-day walk around the Bahamas. The archipelago has nearly 700 large and small islands and nearly 2,400 coral reefs. The main islands are Andros, Biminis, Abaco and Providence; the capital is Nassau - the largest city of the island nation.
The island has a temperate and humid climate. Because the average temperature of winter is 21°C, summer is 27°C, the Bahamas is known as the "land of forever in June". This place has golden sunlight all year round and emerald green beaches.
Walking around the Bahamas, the pigs on Big Major Island, in Exumas Bay, will definitely give Vietnamese tourists a wonderful relaxation moment when visiting here. Ms. Linh kept smiling when seeing the pink pigs swimming in the blue water, holding them in her arms like a baby or caring for them to eat carrots.
The pigs here are of unknown origin. According to Today Show, the pigs were originally raised on a farm owned by a man named Wayde Trump in the 1990s.
The herd of pigs here often spends the whole day swimming, sleeping on the sand and enjoying being Fed by tourists. The pigs' favorite food is vegetables and fruits. The best time to swim and play with the pigs is suggested to be early in the morning because after that, they will often lie on the sand.
drifting to explore 4 island countries
Ms. Linh constantly uses beautiful words to describe this memorable journey: "I have lived 11 days in the heart of the Caribbean: Floating freely, free, in a dream. Those are very different months, no more rushes, no more crowded phone announcements, only the whispering sound of waves and a vast period of space".
At her first destination on a new yacht - Antigua & Barbuda island with a territory of less than 450km2, she swam in the clear water with her flock of dried fish. The female tourist smiled big when she touched a North American pangasius.
The second destination, the island nation of Dominica, is the stop that Ms. Linh likes the most on the journey. The island nation is located east of the Leeward archipelago, between Guadeloupe (under France) to the north and Martinique (under France) to the south. However, the island nation, which is an independent country in the common prosperity bloc, is often confused with the Dominican Republic - an independent country in the Americas.
The female tourist said: "Here, we had unforgettable wonderful experiences. That morning, we contacted a man with a long history of "hunting" for elephants. When boarding the boat, he brought a whale signal receiver.
The group sailed out into the ocean and followed those miraculous sounds. Finally, after nearly 2 hours, 7 whalees appeared in front of us. The fishermen gently sprayed water, waved their tails on the deep blue sea and slowly swam close to the boat's edge in the joy of the whole group".
While continuing to move from Dominica to Saint Lucia - an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Ms. Linh accidentally saw the sea surface experiencing a strange howling breeze. Surprised, before her eyes, a herd of skillful schools of pigs appeared. They rushed forward at the bow of the boat and competed in a position to win.
"I cried for an hour because I was so happy," Ms. Linh said.
At the final stop, the day of visiting the 389km2 island of St. Vincent & Grenadines is also the occasion to celebrate the 9th wedding anniversary of the Vietnamese female tourist couple. The couple simply wore 2 sets of white outfits and took photos to save beautiful memories on a small yacht drifting in the Caribbean.
Ms. Linh said: "The biggest difficulty in the trip was the waves. In the first 3 days, almost everyone was going crazy; by the 4th day, everyone gradually got used to it and became as strong as the crew on the boat.
I consider the boat as a home and enjoy every moment of life in that "mobile house". This journey is not just a trip, but a summer carefully wrapped in memories. A sweet, salty dream with the taste of the sea, sparkling with the sunlight and disappearing the smell of wild flowers blooming along the far away islands".
