Friday, April 13, 2007

Now in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

In Siem Reap, maybe the last night there, we went to look for a restaurant for dinner but power in the area failed. Some restaurants were prepared for this and brought out candles. We found a restaurant with candles had a seat, were brought menus like everything was normal. We ordered food and it was served pretty quickly. They couldn't do fruit shakes unfortunately.

I left Siem Reap for Phnom Penh where Evan and Dave caught a plane back to Bangkok and where I caught a bus to Ho Chi Minh City. There are a lot of scooters and conical hats here, otherwise it's pretty tame when compared to Cambodia. I had a tour of the Mekong Delta and today I had a tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels. For the Mekong Delta tour we had a couple boat rides (where a sharp plank of wood took a chunk out of one of my toes), ate some coconut candy, ate some fruit... um that's about it. The Cu Chi Tunnels were ok, I crawled through 15m of underground tunnel. I've been doing easy touristy things here. I miss the dirt and grime of Cambodia.

Today hopefully I'll get to see Dremus and tomorrow I'm leaving for Mui Ne to sit on the beach for a while. I'm not really sure what to expect. After that Da Lat, Nga Trang, Hoi An and HaNoi.

3 Comments:

At 9:10 AM, Blogger Weichi said...

The Vietnamese are so cute, they especially love it when you yell "Doh Ma May" and flip them the bird. I think it means "hello". :P

 
At 10:52 PM, Blogger Travis Brown said...

Are you selling your yo-yo skills on the streets like you planned? Is there a market for sexually devient yo-yo enthusiasts out there? That seems like something that would be pretty global...

 
At 8:21 AM, Blogger tanya said...

mttMui Ne is nice. I rented a bike for, what, 10,000 dong? and rode out to the sand dunes. Remember the name of where you stayed?

 

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