Quynh Kim Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... slightly more than 15 minutes, stopping at the Opera House taking photographs.

The Notre Dame is quite an impressive structure, a mixture of Gothic and Roman architecture. It has two bell towers.It was built by French colonists and was completed in 1880.In 1962,it was anointed by the Vatican the basilique title, naming it Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica.

As it was Sunday afternoon there were still some worshipers but a lot more tourists, mostly ...

... periodically hassling you for this and that. I found an internet cafe and did some blogging, surrounded by what seemed from the decible level like a thousand Vietnamese children screeching and jabbering incessantly as they played World of Warcraft on the adjacent terminals, yet was in fact only about five. Noisy *******s. Afterwards I went back to the hotel, cracked open a beer from my minibar, lay on the bed and watched the movie channel on my TV before going to sleep.

... etc There are also coffee shops on every corner serving vietnamese coffee with sweet condensed milk.
One of the must see things in Saigon is the War Museum. We spent only a few hours there and still didn't finish looking around. The pictures are horrific and leave you feeling sad about how people can become so inhuman during war. Whilst looking at the photos a group of Vietnamese students approached Marcin asking about his feelings about the exhibition. One thing ...

... with a female narrator describing the atrocities the “American devils” inflicted on the innocent inhabitants of Cu Chi village and the ways in which the residents retaliated, one of which was by constructing extremely gruesome spiked booby traps. After the film we were led to a display of several of these, all of which worked by stepping on a little trapdoor and then becoming impaled in different parts of the body. A large painting extended along the ...

... rose pretty much put paid to any ideas we had of sight seeing that day!

so after the hangover subsided we booked a trip for the following day, to the cu chi tunnel systems around 70 km away. these 200 km of subterrainean tunnels were developed and used by the viet cong guerillas during the vietnam war and are something to behold! at the time they were just 80cm high and 60 cm wide but they have been slightly widened to allow tourists to crawl through them a little more ...

... took me through 12 of the 15 hour journey. The rest of the time was spent hunched over on a hard bunk bed attempting to eat my dinner of train bought popcorn. To be honest, it wasn't so bad, just the occassional devil sign from the old woman and her daughter playing a video game of what appeared to be the most annoying bleepign noises in mankind occassionally awoke me, but we all slept surprisingly well. It was then on to Hoi-An.....

... near Pattaya and therefore we had no idea how to get there as the bus was full.... so we hired our own car and driver. (This all sounds luxurious but still v cheap by UK standards!!)

So the driver came to pick us up at 9am.... none of us had been to sleep.... we'd stayed up late watching the Wimbledon final and never made it to bed.... so we carried on drinking in the car and ferry and eventually passed out in the car.... Colm hadn't slept for 2 days by now so he took a couple of ...

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