Pastel Inn Saigon Ho Chi Minh City

... slurs (e.g. "I ugly man because my mother Phillipina, and all people from Phillipines are ugly" - simply not true!) and cringeworthy comments, his attempts at humour failing flat almost every time. Billy's English was abysmal, and it was this that made me begin to doubt his stories - if he had lived in America and fought with Americans, and then been doing tours for twenty years, he would speak much better English than he did. His style was abrasive and tedious, and his tone of ...

... first evening, including a guy twice trying to sell me drugs.<br><br>I realised quickly that I was going to have to do something constructive with any time I spent here, or I was just going to run screaming onto the nearest bus, so I nipped back to the hotel, and booked myself onto a one-day tour of the Mekong Delta, and what a good thing I did - it was a really great day out!<br><br>It was obviously only a taste of that part of Vietnam, and it did include a 2 hour ...

... but over a portion of my own seat space, which his arm oozed into. When it came time to sleep I found myself pressed up against him, shoulder to wrist, his hairy warm arm firmly against my own. It was disgusting. I wrapped up in a blanket so I wouldn&#8217;t have to feel his skin on mine, and he had the nerve to adjust my covering so that it would tuck in over him. We didn&#8217;t exchange a single word the entire 10 hour flight. <br><br>We finally got off the ...

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... br><br>Anyway still had a goodish day today. did some of the sights such as the war museum which is pretty gruesome and has lots of communist propaganda and then went to the palace which was alright but seriously communist have no idea how to design a building. <br><br>I have come to the conclusion communism is a joke, ho chi minh is like any other modern city except the locals try and rip you off and laugh at tourists, though some have been cool and tried to teach me some local ...

... cuando llegamos a la pagoda del emperador de Jade, estaba cerrada (cierran a las 6pm) asi que nos fuimos a cenar al Tib restaurant que está genial: muy elegante, con terraza, en un callejón sin ruido y la comida muy abundante y buena.<br> <br>

... going on. Great shopping at the local markets and cheap food from the street stalls. <br><br>We took a 2 day, 1 night trip to the Mekong Delta. It involved a long boat ride along the Saigon river and then into the Mekong river. Its such a busy river system with many families whole livelyhood based around it. You see people bathing in it, going to the toilet in it, washing dishes in it, drinking from it ...

... was fun too on the island, we went to see a lady boy show, and there were lots of live singers in bars. After the night out we went to see the crazy pancake man who could rustle you up a crepe in about 20 seconds and chopped it at hyper-speed, with no concern for his fingers at all.<br><br>Next we got to Bangkok - a hot and crazy city, very fast moving and we loved it. We did some sightseeing to see some temples and an enormous 60m long, 15m high reclining Buddha, but spent most of ...

... touts from two rival bars (Go2 and Crazy Buffalo - competing for our custom yet amusingly owned by the same company!) trying to get our patronage and giving us increasingly better drinks offers. As we were a little drunk, we decided to play around with them a little - some of them were quite funny. One guy claimed he'd killed Michael Jackson (who'd died the day before)! A really camp guy kept coming up to me to try to tempt me into his bar! [Rich: We came to know some of these ...

... the<br>hotel and slept and then hit the beach for most of the day. in the<br>evening went to a beach party......got hammered on jamjars....potent<br>cocktail of red bull, vodka,whisky and orange.......massive hangover!<br><br>Chilled<br>out on the beach again the following day and caught the sleeper train<br>to the beautiful town of Hoi An. This time the train was<br>disgusting.....foul smell everywhere, cockroaches, possibly ...