Foreign couple saves money, feels the love in Vietnam

Quentin Dewiere (C), his wife Agnieszka Nanaszko (R) and a Western friend they just met in Vietnam, raise a note they had asked
a o!a to write so they !an use to ask for free ride and !hea" ser#i!e around the !ountry$ %hoto !redit& 'uoi 're
Quentin Dewiere and his wife Agnieszka Nanaszko walked along a Da Lat street making shop owners smile with a stained, hand-
written note.
Eventually, a (e om motor!ike ta"i# driver agreed to !ring the $ouple to an area deep in %hong %hien &o$ alley.
%here, they pla$ed the note in the landlord's hand.
Do (han Anh, owner of the &ome )weet &ome &ostel Dalat, $harged them half of the listed pri$e $iting their *interesting* message.
%he +ren$h-(olish freelan$e photographers have !een traveling a$ross ,ietnam, from )a (a to Nha %rang, and eight other
$ountries with help from their message, whi$h implores lo$als to help them stay within their ten dollar a day !udget.
%hey $all the message a *spe$ial visa,* %uoi %re newspaper reported.
%he ,ietnamese version was translated !y the owner of an internet $afe.
-t says. /0e want to go to 123. -f you4re going that way, $an we $ome along 5ust for a !it6 0e really don4t have mu$h money. 0e
spend most of our !udget on food. And we honestly want to dis$over your $ountry. %hank you very mu$h.7
%he $ouple said they spent years saving money for a proper round-the-world trip.
We get more o#e in remote and diffi!ut areas of Vietnam) **Agnieszka Nanaszko
%hen, one day four years ago, they learned a!out a 89-year-old (olish woman named %eresa :an$ewi$z who traveled the world for
;< a day !y asking for lifts and other support.
Dewiere, =>, said traveling $heaply isn't their only o!5e$tive.
%he $ouple wants to feel the love of people along the way.
0andering the world in this way allows them to do !oth, he said.
%he $ouple $annot re$all the names of all their ,ietnamese !enefa$tors, so they used ni$knames to des$ri!e more than >? lovely
lo$als who gave them lifts in tru$k $a!ins, invited them to street meals or offered them a free pla$e to stay.
Agnieszka, =?, said they usually go to tru$k terminals and ask for free rides.
@ne &anoi driver widened his eyes after reading their /visa7 and asked them to hop on.
Aost tru$kers in other $ountries put them in $ontainers !ehind the $a!in, !ut in ,ietnam, they're freBuently invited to sit with the
divers, she said.
)he said they tried to insist on splitting the !ill on meals, !ut the drivers usually insist on $overing their $osts.
%hey rely on !ody language and smiles to $ommuni$ate.
A man named &oang from Quang Cyen Distri$t of the northern highlands4 Dao :ang (rovin$e saved them from a $y$lone last Aay.
0inds were sending leaves and gar!age flying !riskly through the air.
%hey were a!out to take $over in their sleeping !ags when &oang $ame !y, flailing his arms to urge them to run into his house,
whi$h was sheltered !y a mountain.
%he $y$lone tossed whole trees down onto the road where they'd planned to ride out the storm.
Night Bui$kly fel and the $ouple showed &oang the note and he asked them to stay.
&e went out the ne"t morning and asked a friend to drive them to town.
Another night, they owner of a restaurant in a remote $ommune in Dao :ang made them a !ed out of ta!les and $hairs.
%hey showed the owner the note after having dinner there, asking her to introdu$e a $heap room.
)he responded, in !roken English, that the poor area had no guest houses and arranged the !ed and gave them her mosBuito net
and !lanket.
/0e get more love in remote and diffi$ult areas of ,ietnam,7 Agnieszka said.
)he said most of the ,ietnamese they meet usually wave away any money they offer for help.
/0e understood that they meant EDon4t !other, 5ust go on4,7 Agnieszka said !efore 5umping on a vegeta!le tru$k !ound for &o Dhi
Ainh Dity.