First Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... year to choose their menus. That way they get the food they like and are accustomed too. I guess one time the ship had ordered the wrong rice for the staff &amp; the Captain was overwhelmed with complaints. <br><br>Lunch was with the Captain &amp; all the Mariners (past passengers). It was in the main dining room &amp; was a good time. Lots of wine was served....nice touch. <br><br>After some relaxing &amp; reading we headed to the galley for a tour that was ...

... and still alive! The Vietnamese love their food fresh and this was as fresh as it comes. The poor things were twitching and moving their legs. When they were put on the BBQ they continued to squirm - which was understandable seeing as they were been cooked alive! We all felt a bit bad, but as meat eaters we should be able to face the death of our food and respect it. Otherwise, what right do we have to eat living things unless we are prepared to kill them. Well, that's my ...

... flood and power cut. With nothing much else to do in the rain we went for 2 hours of pampering at the Spa - L'Apothiquaire. Relaxed and blissed out we went for a big fat steak - Australian steak, Vietnam prices! <br><br>We really need to go back to Ho Chi Minh and do more things! we ran out of time. Rach was ill the 1st night and Chris the 2nd night so we didn't get to see much of the nightlife. Will have to save the Apocalypse Now club for next time!! <br><br>

... shoot an AK-47. So I coughed up $2 and got 2 shots. The noise was deafening. And the sense of power tangible. <br> It was then on the way back to Saigon that my whole plans for Australia were thrown up in the air. I had met a Brazilian girl that day who had been couch surfing in both Saigon and Hanoi with ex pats teaching English. So we were chatting away and I was telling her about my plans to go back to Oz and work until Christmas when she mentioned how easy it was ...

... First you let yourself down into the tunnel feet-first, then you bend over and shuffle forward using your hands to help things along, feeling your back scraping repeatedly against the packed dirt &#8220;ceiling.&#8221; Needless to say, we were crawling single file and it was very close quarters with no way to turn around. The guide was ahead and shone his flashlight for us so we could sort of see what was going on, but otherwise it was black as pitch. We let ourselves ...

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This morning I booked a city tour with a travel agency in hopes of meeting some fellow travelers. I was pretty disappointed at first when the fellow travelers were a family from Halong City, Vietnam. Their English was very basic and I thought it was going to a pretty boring day. It ended up being really cool though. <br><br>The family consisted of the parents, a sixteen year-old daughter, and a nine year-old son. We saw a bunch of stuff around Saigon but the most ...

Fun Facts about South East Asia:<br><br>- In Thailand you're not a foreigner, you're a guest<br>- In Cambodia girls are chicky just like their ancient statues<br>- You can play "petanque" in Laos and eat fresh baguette in Vietnam. Who said the French did not leave a good mark in Indochina? ;)<br>- In SE Asia you don't pronounce the last consonant: "I lie you" really means "I like you" <br>- Thai massage might have "happy endings" in ...

... 6am for a cheap hotel to open. It was interesting people watching at that hour of the morning, it seems the prostitutes give up for the night at around 5.30am...<br><br>After a little snooze we headed out to explore the city. We got a xe om (motorbike) each to the War Remnants museum but it was closed for lunch (lots of places do this and we forgot to check) so we walked to the Notre Dame Cathedral (built in a similar style to the Paris version ...

... journey to the REUNIFICATION palace - again that was interesting and well worth the journey.here we decided to go for a walk and just see where we end up! We had noticed a cinema so got tickets for ''the day the world stood still'' I love Keanu Reeves as much as the next girl but if you havent seen it dont bother its rubbish. We had about an hour before the film started so we went to a little cafe and had a drink - maaan the heavens ...