Cambodia og Vietnam 2009
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Cambodia og Vietnam 2010

Henning has planned and the tour guides to Cambodia and Vietnam, 7 April - 14 May 2010 and uses contacts from previous visit to Cambodia /Vietnam. Participants are Jette, Steen, Gerda, Benno and Henning.

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Wednesday 7 / 4 - Copenhagen> Flights> Bangkok.
Departure Copenhagen with Thai Airways TG0951 pm. 14:30

Thursday 8 / 4 - Bangkok> aircraft> Cambodia - Phnom Penh.
Departure from Bangkok pm. 9:00 to Phnom Penh, Cambodia capital. Arrival pm. ca.19. Sambath, Ratha and Sarun picks us up at the airport and drive us to our hotel Royal Star, located right next to the Ton Le Sap River, near the royal palace. We have allocated rooms, relaxing. Sambath doing a program for us.

Friday 9 / 4 - Phnom Penh.
We eat breakfast on top of the hotel overlooking the river - Departure at. 8:00. We need the country to Sambaths and Rathas village. We visit Sambaths younger brother's farm "Sambo". After a little round-up display, we are on a small hill with a great view. Here is a pagoda, and living a part monks. Sambath tells little about the Pagoda. Afterwards we will visit a school below the mountain. I hope it is open, though it is days before the last day of the year. Lunch we
floor in a small dining room. Afterwards we're going to the village and share clothes off. It is now 5 time we do it. We are now running back to Phnom Penh, so we need to relax and possibly. Blind massage. Dinner in town.

Saturday 10 / 4 - Phnom Penh.
Breakfast atop the hotel. Sambath picks us up at. 8.30.Vi to see the royal palace and then Tocul Sleng Museum, this was where Pol Pot tortured and killed, a large part of the 2 mill. he was executed. We make a stop at the large Russian market. We shop around. 1 hours, so it's time for lunch. The last stop is near the great pagoda Wat Phrom located?
Middle of the city. Back to the hotel - perhaps a massage. Outdoor dining with Sambaths mother, Sarum.

Sunday 11 / 4 - Phnom> go 5 hours> Siem Rieper.
up early. The boat sails at. 7:00, so at breakfast. 6.00. We take the tuk tuk from the hotel to the boat. There are many who will help us by boat - nice, but not free of charge - usually $ 1 per. suitcase. There are different types of boats - all with room below deck, but many prefer to sit in the open. Remember water. It is a hot ride. There is at this time of year is not much water in the river, so our fast boat can not go right up to shore. We must omlæsses in small boats, it may seem chaotic, but when both ends all the same place, making it less if you are in the same boat as your suitcase. By Bank is once again many helpers, but it costs. Here are also awaiting a taxi to the suitcases and tuk tuk to us. The first km is on the river bottom - very bumpy. We will be accommodated at the hotel Mandalay Inn. We rested. If I feel like we can at. 16 go to see the sunset over Angkor Wat, very popular, cost approx. $ 3 for a taxi. We climb a small hill with good views. The first time I tried in 2000 were around. 200 people, now approx. 4000. It requires little effort to get up there, but it has been easier since the beginning of 2007. 18:00, when the sun went down, we drive back to Siem Reap and eat dinner.

Monday 12 / 4 - Cambodia - Siem Reap.
up early. We must see the sunrise over Angkor Wat, again very popular. We drive from Mandalay Inn at. 05.00 tomorrow. In Angkor Wat, we sit and wait for the sun, which rises at. 06.00. Then we eat breakfast at Angkor. We have breakfast at the hotel, but there is much to the hotel and the location
again to Angkor. So I tend to have the system that I pay half of your breakfast. After breakfast we drive to Angkor Thom. It is the royal city with the fine temples. First stop: We walk through the gateway to Angkor Thom. We drive to the bayonet temple. A temple with many faces. Here we can also be predicted for a cheap price. We now proceed to the Royal Palace. We enter the back door, but before we see a very large Hindu temple that has been under restoration in the last 10 years, but there is at least 10 years before it is finished. So we come to the Royal Palace, which is very dilapidated. We see King Kong park with 2 swimming pools, ends with the place where the big elephant fights took place. Now we find our tuk tuk motorcycles. We need to Ta Phrom temple with the big trees. Now we have lunch, nearing 12 o'clock noon. Then last visit, the largest temple of Angkor Wat. Some historical stuff. Here in Angkor lived over
1 million people for 1000 years ago, for comparison there lived in Paris 20,000. Same size as the Imperial Palace Bejing, China. There has been just as many stones as Cheops pyramid in Egypt. After this visit back to the hotel where we're at. 15:41. We meet for farewell dinner at. 20:00 It is Mandalay Inn. Before that time the blind massage or other massage. Our guide Chhair come and eat with us. He has his wife and 2 children. My previous guide Sophal also appear.

Tuesday 13 / 4 - Cambodia> aircraft> Saigon
Departure, but first we must experience many things. We drive from Mandalay Inn at. 08.00. We take our tuk tuk. First stop a temple built to commemorate victims of Pol Pot. It is called a Killing Fields Temple. There are also boarding school. If there are students at home, we see their homes. Now we have Chhier's wife, we see her Internet cafe, she takes us out of her home. We see the home, their special animals, crocodiles. On the way back to Mandalay Inn visit our tuk tuk leader's home. It is also here Saphal boer.Tilbage at the hotel there is time for a shower, then we are ready for the flight to Vietnam. We must fly at. 17:30 in Ho Chi Minh City = Saigon pm. 18:30. Here awaits a taxi that runs us to the hotel. We go out and eat at. 20:30.

Wednesday 14 / 4 - Saigon> train> Da Nang
We must get up early and have a great program. All luggage must be down to my room in the morning. When we come home from the trip can be asked before we eat dinner at. 20:00
We drive from the hotel at. 07.00. First stop Chu Chi tunnels built by the Vietcong, off in French, but strongly reinforced during the U.S. occupation. There are approx. 250 km tunnels. Next stop Cao Dai, a religious movement, which is an amalgam of Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. We must be at Tay Ninh. 12:00. Here begins the great arrived. When we took pictures, we eat lunch in Tay Ninh. We drive back to Saigon and make a little stop outside the former presidential palace, we can not reach, to get into, but there may be photographed outside. It was here that a North Vietnamese tank drove through the wicket gate, when the war was over 30 / 4 1975th 20 years of suffering was over, now the country would be rebuilt. There was
However, many problems in the beginning. Pol Pot from Cambodia occupied part of South Vietnam. He believed that Vietnam was very
weakened. There live many Khmer who is Cambodian in the southern provinces. It took a month, as Vietnam had committed Pol Pot. It was the Chinese to move into the northern province of Lao Cai. Chinese smashed the whole Lao Cai before the Vietnamese had driven the Chinese back. Then came the new congestion times for Vietnam. The U.S. was the world to boycott all goods from Vietnam. There was great famine. It was at this time, all the boat people came to Denmark 1980-90. Today, the market economy in Vietnam. Vietnam has the second highest growth rate in the world, surpassed only by China. The growth rate in Vietnam is over 10% - in Denmark, approx. 2.5%. Vietnam is emerging.
After the dust is washed out and we go eat at. 20:00.
We drive from the hotel at. 22:00 - The train goes at. 23:00.
Remember plastic mug!

Thursday 15 / 4 - ttain> Da Nang.> Hoi An
We can sleep almost as long as we want. There seems modest breakfast and lunch. It is not that big rush. We take what we like. At one end of the train is a canteen. Take a trip up through the train, there are many vehicles. We can see how the landscape varies. Between the hours. 13:00 and 14:00, we are in Da Nang. Thuy Phuc and picks us up at the station. Our suitcases are driven to the Hotel Hai Yen. On the way to Hoi An we visit Marble Mountains. There are many steps up - but more beautiful temples. These temples were built by Emperor Ming Mang. His mausoleum, we see 22 / 4 in Hue.
In Hoi An we all rooms and rents bikes. We meet kl.20 and bicycles going to eat.

Friday 16 / 4 - Hoi An.
We are running at. 8:30 to Village of Hope, disability-school with many hearing impaired. We need to Da Nang. This is where Chau, Phuc, Thoc and Do go to school - all sponsored by the Danish. Chau is now 15 years. I have paid her special education since she was 5 years. We eat lunch with the children.
Back in Hoi An, I have made an agreement with the tailor Bui, so she is ready and we bicycle to silversmiths Phi and his wife Thao. If there is interest we can also visit a silkevæveri. Here, a guide shows us around. Finally a trip to the beach 3 km away. Dinner in town at. 20
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Saturday 17 / 4 - Hoi An
Bicycling. We start from the hotel at. 9.00 and bicycles down to the harbor, embarking on one of the boats incl. bicycles. A voyage in 12 minutes. We get off at a boatyard, sees a træskæreri. We cycle around the small islands. It can be difficult to navigate if we do not have a local with. It is a thrill ride here will almost never tourists. We are back in Hoi An between 12.00 and 01.00. Now we have lunch. Then we drive to the office where you can buy tickets to cultural venues in the city, costing 75.000VD, it is ca.25kr. and covers 5 sites. The afternoon is free to the beach, pool, tøjprøvning or otherwise.
kl.20 dinner in town.

Sunday 18 / 4 - Hoi An
For those who feel like running and flying at us. 09:00 to an island, Cham Island, off the coast of Hoi An, ca. 20 km. We see the city, where hardly any tourists. After bybesøg we go to a
Robinson Krusoe beach where we bathe. You can dress on the beach. We will have lunch which is included in the ticket $ 20
= approx. 110 kr We are again at home. 16.00. Dinner in town.

Monday 19 / 4 - Hoi An - Hennings Birthday
Easy bike ride around in Hoi An and the surrounding area. We drive from the hotel at. 9:00. I will include shows you the humble place "Rose", where the royal family had lunch in 1998. Lunch. 12.
afternoon at leisure to cultural sites or otherwise. Birthday Dinner at Hai Yen pm. 20:00. We are between 30 and 40 people. It is here we must try our voices.

Tuesday 20 / 4 - Hoi An
holidays. However, I have a proposal for a morning. One of my friends are dir. for a larger hotel on the beach. Remember to get clothes, silver and possibly purchase. sleepingbag. Dinner in town.

Wednesday 21 / 4 - Hoi An> car> Hue
We need to Hue. We drive from Hai Yen pm. 7.30. There are approx. 145 km. We drive through Da Nang, taking over Hawan passport and are in Hue approx. pm. 11. Hotel accommodation Hoa Hung. We at bikes. 12:30 for lunch at the deaf restaurant, then visit the royal palace Dai Noi, and if there is time, visits to the big market. Kl. 20:00 cycles we go and eat at a fine restaurant with exciting music and many dishes of food.
Back at the hotel if necessary. a drink - but we have to be up early!

Thursday 22 / 4 - Hue> train> Hanoi
Breakfast pm. 6:00 - then all the suitcases into my room. We need to go sailing on Odor agree river, Song Huong. We start from the hotel at. 7.00 and must ride 1750 meters to our boat that we take bikes on board. We sail up the river Odor agree. First stop Thien Mu Pagoda, a peaceful place. Was
known throughout the world, it was here that a monk was driving in his car to Saigon, drove up in front of the presidential palace, went out at the site, poured gasoline over himself, lit fire to himself. The picture went around the world, it was in 1963. The war was a turning point. It was President Diem case, public opinion turned against the war in both the U.S. and Europe. At that time there were around. 750,000 Allied soldiers in Vietnam. Now everything breathes peace and idyllic. Next stop Minh Mang mausoleum, a very beautiful mausoleum in a beautiful park, a place many go to the excursion. Now we sail across the river, here we have the bikes that are around. 3 km up to Khai Dinh Mausoleum, a completely different mausoleum. Here is the rough stone lots and lots of stairs. But a grand mausoleum with many mosaics. Here is a good view from the top. Back to the boat. Here, there are now 2 options, you can ride back to Hue or sail. Those who take the boat comes around. 45 minutes later than us who cycle. Those who will sail to have bicycles on board. We need everyone on board, now we have lunch on board. On the boat can be purchased silk - one of the good points of purchase! Now we return to bicycle around Hue. 10 km or will sail home. Buy a little palatable to the train --
We need to Hanoi and the train goes at. approx. 16.30.
Remember again sleeping bags and plastic mug!

Friday 23 / 4 - Hanoi
Arrival Hanoi early morning, remember all the fittings. This time, there is no hurry. We need a taxi to the hotel Camilia 4, 44 Hang Gaiy. When we reach the hotel, we have been. It is not certain, we can get rooms as early (before pm. 6), probably someone who sleeps in them. We take breakfast. I'm doing a little walking tour of our neighborhood and around Hoan Kiem Lake - the most central point in Hanoi. On the way I order cycles - Kl.ca.9 we test our abilities on the bike, watch out,
learn Vietnamese bicycle style. I will do everything I can to teach you technique. It may look bad, but it comes to understanding the way to do it and not say "they are running crazy." Forget all Danish rules and learn some practical rules. Rule: See what you want, not undo, select what you are doing. If you pass other bikes and motorcycles, select what you want. Sometimes close to swing, run almost the wrong side, then there will be as few passengers as possible. After completion of the bike ride we relax at Hoan Kiem Lake. When we are back at the hotel rooms would be ready. We now proceed to Little Hanoi, where we eat lunch. Rest of day free. Dinner is at. 20:00 in the city.

Saturday 24 / 4 - Hanoi.
We visit Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. Running from the hotel at. 8:00. Remember long pants. Then a tour of the park, where we visit Ho Chi Minh's house. By the end of the very famous pagoda, the Etbenede pagoda, Chua Mot Cot, a short visit in Ho Chi Minh museum. Now we have bikes to the old university also called the Literature Museum. We have lunch near the museum. On the way back to the hotel I buy tickets for the water theater. We see the show end of the day. Rest of day free. Bicycles must be put back because we do not need them tomorrow. Dinner is at. 20:00.

Sunday 25 / 4 - Hanoi
I have rented a car. We must see the modern Hanoi and a 1000 year old pagoda, Sai Temple. I hope Thuy take with us. Lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant. In the afternoon the Ethnic Museum - an outdoor museum with a large indoor section. I've put 2 hours of here. Dinner by the lake. We go from the hotel at. 19 - Dinner 19:30
Remember, tomorrow begins our tours - the first to Mai Chau.
We pack our håndbagage.Vigtige thing: Raincover, lamp sleepingbag and toiletries and clothes for 2 nights (3 days).
The large suitcase to be down at reception, where there is a space for it. Remember to settle minibar.

Monday 26 / 4 - Hanoi> car> Mai Chau - Ban Lach.
Departure at hotel. 7.00. There is 145 km to Mai Chau Valley.
the outskirts of Hanoi we visit a silk factory. This is the opportunity to purchase silk and finished off the roll. We see here the silk from cocoon to finished products. The tour will now proceed to Hoa Binh, the city with the great power which we only see on the way home. In Hoa Binh we drive on the left to Son La. It is mountain driving straight to Mai Chau. The village we live in, Ban Lach, composed of farmers. As a sideline making these families ethnic clothes and things for tourists and serve as guest houses. We live in the house No 1 in Hoa right next to rice paddies. Here lives one of the many ethnic groups - there are 54 in Vietnam. These are white Thai. They emigrated 300 years ago and settled in this valley. Almost everyone can all speak and write Thai and also Vietnamese, of course - many also English. When we arrive, we lived on 1st floor. We will have already the first day do a little bike ride. The bikes we have in the car from Hanoi. It will be a trip on small paths through several villages. Before we bicycle, we ate lunch. Hoa and her husband are doing some of the best food in the village. After dinner we can stroll into the village before we take a beer or coffee on the 1st floor terrace.

Tuesday 27 / 4 - Ban Lach.
We cycle from village pm. 8:00. We visit a school situated approx. 10 km from Ban Lach. A hard outward, with many
increases, we must withdraw. It is easy on the trip home, where you must remember to brake, so the move is not too violent. It is now 11th year I visit the school. Kl. 12:30 is lunch, and 15.00 do we have a bike ride, an incredibly beautiful ride, maybe a little cumbersome. Some places we bear cycles. Why make such a trip? Because it is incredibly beautiful. We eat dinner at. 19.30. Tonight, the village dance for us many ancient dance. We try too!. It takes place at Hoa's sister Thu. She is a very skilled weaver, as the Vietnamese government uses when displaying ethnic art abroad. Coffee or similar on the 1st floor terrace.

Wednesday 28 / 4 - Ban Lach> car> Hanoi.
We must return to Hanoi and running kl.7.30. We say goodbye to Hoa and Thu. First stop on the trip home will be power in Hoa Binh. Then it goes to Hanoi, where we are promoting at lunchtime. Afternoon free. Dinner in town.

Thursday 29 / 4 - Hanoi> car - 400km> Sa Pa.
hours to Sa Pa kl.5.00 morning. We take a little breakfast. Along the way we can get Vietnamese breakfast is Pho.
It's a long trip on bad roads. We are first in Sa Pa between 17:00 and 18:00. Lunch along the way before we reach Loa Cai - the last 10 km we drive along the Chinese border. We are making little stay at the border station. From here it is 38 km up to Sa Pa, located in 1700 m height. We are housed in the Hotel Lotus. Dinner at restaurant mimosa.

Friday 30 / 4 - Sa Pa.
Here are 2 options: Visit to a flower park, located on the highest point in Sa Pa. There is a fantastic prospect. Lunch in town - or a hard-treking trip down the
mountain with lunch and local guide. Beverages can be purchased under way. The first km on the road - the rest of the terrain. To buy bamboo sticks along the way, "a good idea." Many ethnic women watching us and help if we wish. It runs through many ethnic villages - Black Mong, Seid and Red Dzau. When we reach the bottom, will Kkao provide motorcycles with drivers for repatriation ($ 3 = ca.18kr.).
Dinner in Sa Pa.

Saturday 1 / 5 - Sa Pa
Kl. 9:00, we visit a Red Dzau village. It lies 10 km from Sa Pa. When we arrive, there are many who want to sell to us. They follow us around the whole village. When we over rice paddies, it is nice to have a hand from a Red Dzau. We go on groynes. Buy now not too early. The vendors will soon follow. We drive back to the hotel, goes up in the market where Phung Dung and her mother Luyen has made lunch for us U.S. $ 4 + drinks. I pay, we calculate later. After lunch, we visit a Black Mong village of Cat Cat. We walk down the mountain. We make a stop at one of the huts. We must enter and see how they live. When we see a small waterfall and a suspension bridge, we reached the bottom. Then we cross a few miles. Here awaits a motorcycle to every running us back to the market. 20.00 we eat in town. After dinner, we look at life on the market incl. "Love the market before the church. We must get up early.

Sunday 2 / 5 - Sa Pa> car-80 km> Bac Ha> train> Hanoi
Start 6:30. Goodbye Sa Pa. Now it is Bac Ha. Once we got our rooms, so Mai Hotel, we take on the market. It is North Vietnam's largest ethnic groups - 80% flav Mong, little Ha Tay and Bac Dzau. Here comes
many more than 50 kilometers in buses or trucks. They sell everything. The tourists are far outnumbered. There are many eating places for locals - and a few of the tourists. We discuss when we meet for lunch. Next trip will be at. 14.00. We take a trip up the mountain through plum orchards and visit a musician named Mr. Ho and taste his corn whiskey. It is a beautiful hike, duration approx. 2 hours. If orcs more, I will take you a trip to a Tay family. It is a trip to the opposite side. Take, if you wish, duration 1 ½ hours. Dinner at the hotel.
After dinner, take our bus drive us to Lao Cai, and we take the night train to Hanoi. Check pm. 6 in the morning. The train costs 140 U.S. $

Monday 3 / 5 - Hanoi - Artline village
We visit a village of artisans. Kien An drive us the approx. 20 km to the village. Here is dir. Thang against us and tells of production. It is supported by Danida. Lunch in the village. We are at home. approx. 16.
night train, we are in Hanoi pm. 6 and I'm doing a program. Dinner in town.

Tuesday 4 / 5 - Hanoi
We drive from the hotel at. 8:00. We drive first to the museum of art. We make a quick review. It is now a 15km bike ride Western Sea, Two Tay around where we visit a much visited pagoda. Where is the festival, there will be many thousands. Here we are only third round, so there is much to be done.
We are home to the hotel at. 12:10, where we eat lunch. Afternoon free.

Wednesday 5 / 5 - Hanoi> car / bike> Tam coc
We gotta go to Ninn Binh pm. 7.00. We drive to a small fishing village Kinga where there are not many tourists. After a short boat ride we eat lunch here. Then we drive to Hoa Luu. Here was Vietnam's first capital. This led King Lee 800-900 Vietnam in the figure. Our Khoa can tell a lot about this king. We see the 2 famous pagodas.
Here are again 2 options: Runs with the car to Tam coc
- or rent bicycles and ride the approx. 10 km of beautiful surroundings to Tam coc - where we will be accommodated at the hotel. Dinner at the hotel.

Thursday 6 / 5 - Tam coc - Cuc Phuong
Breakfast atop the hotel. We then runs the 50km to Nationlparken Cuc Phuong. We eat lunch in the park. Dinner in Tam coc
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Friday 7 / 5 - Tam coc> car> Phu Cu> car> Hanoi
After breakfast, sail in small boats through 3 mountain caves, - 2 in each boat -1 hours off and 1 hour back. Lunch at the hotel.
We are now running from Hung Yen province and the village of Phu Cu. Here we visit briefly my second adopted daughter Huy, 28 years of her in-laws house. She is a schoolteacher and her husband is military and work far from home. Then we drive to her childhood home, where we eat dinner in the courtyard and again test our
voices. After dinner back to Hanoi.

Saturday 8 / 5 - Hanoi
holidays. Dinner in town.

Sunday 9 / 5 - Hanoi
We start from the hotel at. 9 with a smaller bike ride to the Army Museum - and after lunch - a little bike ride around Hanoi.
afternoon free. Dinner in town

Monday 10 / 5 - Hanoi> car / sail> Cat Ba
We drive from the hotel kl.7.00, We're going to sail on Ha Long Bay. On the way we visit, however, only a center meds many disabled people - especially the hearing impaired who are affected by their parents of the U.S. orange poison. It was here Oanh worked before I had sent her to school. She had until then never been taught because his disability. At this point, you have probably encountered this happy and positive girl.
After we Ha Long when we change the car out with a boat that sails us to Cat Ba. We eat lunch on board and visit a beautiful stalactite cave. Khao tells of the cave. In Cat Ba stay and we have time to rest. Kl. 20 we sail out to a restaurant on the water. There is fish / seafood on the menu.

Tuesday 11 / 5 - Cat Ba
We take on a somewhat strenuous trekking - kl.8 drive from the hotel. We start out in the terrain. En route stop at a beekeeper, where we can get a refreshment. Kl.ca.12 we reach a cove where a small "boat" is flying us out to a larger. Alternatively you can take the boat out and face the water-holders.
On the boat, lunch on ca.3 $ = approx. £ 15 plus drinks. Then we sail to a beach on an island where the living apes - the only place in Ha Long Bay. When we do not want to swim more sail back to Cat Ba town. We eat in town.

Tuesday 12 / 5 - Cat Ba
This must be a afslapningsdag - we can sail in small boats in the harbor and go to the beach. Dinner in town the last of Cat Ba and in Vietnam.

Wednesday 13 / 5 - Cat Ba> fly / drive> Hanoi> Flights> Bangkok
We have very early and return to Hanoi. We sail from Cat Ba in Ha Long. Here comes our car and fetch us. On the way we make a stop at a ceramics factory. It is here Thuy's mother works. One can see the manufacture and purchase - if there is room in my suitcase .... We are at the hotel kl.ca. .15. Here I have rented a room where we can take a bath in turn.
17:00 Departure from hotel to airport.
departure to Bangkok kl.ca. 20.30 and expected arrival kl.22.30

Thursday 14 / 5 - Bangkok> aircraft> Copenhagen
After midnight we fly to Copenhagen ..

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I must pay lunch + drink.
Extra tour Siem Reap around sunset. 3 U.S. $
Breakfast 16 / 4, half. - Sunrise
Visa Vietnam Cambodia 20 U.S. $.
Extra trip Champ Iceland 20 U.S. $
Motorcycles with driver U.S. $ 3 per. trip.
Possibly. Night train Loa Cai - Hanoi 25 U.S. $.
Taxi for additional dinners, we share 1 / 10 each.
flowers or gifts. We pay 1 / 10 each.
Tips for guides.