Moevenpick Hotel Saigon Ho Chi Minh City

... br>The Mekong River and tributaries is fringed by lush jungle vegetation: there is frenetic boat traffic
in the main river and a floating market at Cai Be. The upstream tributaries are calm and gentle like the people who are very friendy; they seemed genuinely interested in us, greeting us where ever we went. They are also poor but appeared happy and well nourished. So far this part of Vietnam
seems relatively untouched by mass ...

... this and dead on our feet, back the hotel for the second, or is it third shower of the day, before the sky itself opens up for the after noon deluge. We head out for a meal between showers, dodging scooters and the large wet drops at the same time, before returning for long tall ‘Tom Collins’ cocktails (Gin, Fresh Lemon Juice and sugar syrup) on the roof top bar (infamous for being the strong hold of ...

... dropped us off in the middle of the busy backpacking district of Ho Chi Minh and Tom & I were immediately approached by a hoard of hawkers, attempting to persuade us to take a look at their accommodation. We checked out a couple of places and ultimately ended up at one of the hostels from the guidebook. After checking in and showering, we explored the bustling streets, characterized primarily by a plethora of guest houses, souvenir shops and restaurants, the sidewalks completely ...

... traffic. The traffic system here makes the chaos I saw in Cambodia seem quite tame. I don't know how we didn't get hit by one of the thousands of motorbikes swarming around us. At one point, the driver took a left turn through a dense cluster of oncoming motorbikes while rapidly tapping on the horn. Somehow, all of them managed to slow down and slightly modify their path to avoid hitting us but none of them stopped ...

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... about it. So everything was going pretty smoothly and as soon as it got dark the women went to sleep and I followed suit not long after. Then at 5am I was woken up by the sound of ‘Slurp, Slurp, Munch, Munch’ (that’s people eating noodles by the way) and full on conversation I opened my eyes and it was just getting light so it was obviously time to get up!

We got to Nha Trang a couple of hours late and sorted out the train ...

... at the 'western' table in the corner set with knife and fork we were lucky enough to listen to live music classics like "I'll be right here waiting for you" and some Kenny Rogers. A young Vietnamese girl also treated us to Shakira's greatest hits, complete with hip thrusts which really got the older Thai ladies at the front going.

Very interesting first day. And for those of you thinking about commenting on the "**** my pants' title, you can keep it to yourselves.

... Duong who worked in Saigon. He then proceeded to invite to stay at his house with him and his wife! It’s a shame we were leaving for the Mekong so soon – that would have been hilarious. I couldn’t be ***** walking back so I hired the world’s oldest moto driven by the most pockmarked Chinese man alive. It was great fun navigating through Saigon’s insane traffic – truly a thrilling experience.

That evening, Rich and I headed out to a ...

... back in Hanoi and the friendly staff at our hotel arranged our open tour bus ticket to head south the next day. We both slept well that night. The next morning we checked out and went to find an internet shop to upload our Laos photos. There were over 400 and on the dinosaur machine it took forever to get them on. Hours later we'd finally titled them all and we could almost touch the finish line, when Soph being a total numb-nut somehow managed to delete everything ...

... were some of the harshest. As citizens of a country that wasn't directly involved, it was heart wrenching. Seeing it as an America...we can't imagine. We won't comment on the specifics of the war, or what accusations are made on either side of the fight. What we will say is that we feel extremely fortunate to have grown up in a country with-out war, and that we haven't experienced front line fighting in any foreign conflict. The pictures of wounded ...