Moevenpick Hotel Saigon Ho Chi Minh City

... like something out of a evil dead movie!!! After Steve and me grabbed a bite to eat and then headed back to "My house" guesthouse. In the evening Steve chilled out in the guesthouse and I went for a wander around the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, on the way around a quieter, but safe street, I saw a motorbike drive past me and I woman (about 25 years or so) get off and come up to me offering me "Boom-boom" (A ...

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... are not the funniest thing in the world. Chubby westerners in their swimmers stacking it on the side of the pool is the hands down funniest thing in the world. Thats all I would like to say about that. I digressed. Rather than huge theme park rides, they just had huge statues. A giant horse. A giant turtle. A giant frog. It was boring and ******. Then I noticed the giant shopping trolleys. What the **** are they for? oh, for the giant supermarket in your theme park ...

... that history that we didn't really know much about straight in our tiny little minds. See, it's educational, its not all fun and games.<br>Food in Saigon: minced pork pie-balls with egg to bind it all together (served kind of ambient-temp...we've not got sick though...yet...), big prawn crackery things the size of a pizza with sesame seeds through them, stuffed baked crab, steamed clams, fried scallops, a kind of cornish pastie in filo pastry (we had to go back to the ...

... Hmmm... it's just a Vietnamese thing, I guess. <br>After the cafe Lin and I rode around the city- she wanted to show me more of Ho Chi Minh. <br>We first came upon Notre Dame of Ho Chi Minh/Saigon. The church was beautiful. There is a large statue of the Virgin Mary in front of the church and there were some people standing around the statue singing, with many candles lit and placed at the feet of statue. This statue of the Virgin Mary was the ...

... a hotel for backpackers, she would offer to organise train and tour tickets for you etc. But she had this knack of just talking you in circles. She talked so quickly, always on the phone to someone at the same time telling you how theres only "one ticket left!!", around and around, the story ever-changing, times changing, prices always more and more. She would put things in US Dollars, then multiply them by an exorbitant amount back into Dong. I pulled her up on what the exchange rate ...

... ago, she left behind her last baby girl child, Hai yen, to Madame Thanh. The older sister's arms were already full with the first 4. Madame Thanh, as a sole parent, took very good care of the baby, who obviously now calls Madame Thanh her mother. With very little money, a little help from her sister in the USA, Madame Thanh managed to have Hai Yen educated in the public system here, and had her to enter the Marie Curie High school, the second best in ...

... my black friend Paul. Everyone there was amazed by him as there are NO black people there, at all.<br><br>I hope this Asia portion of my blog wasn't too long. I could honestly write about it for pages and pages. The whole trip was so great, I hope I expressed that at least a little bit. I will write about Costa Rica soon! And try to upload pictures... the internet isn't the best so that may take a little while longer for me to do.