Saigon Lodge Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... other than brief forays out on the back of Homs scooter to god knows where. It does actually seem nicer in these other places so I should probably make an effort more to ask where we are so I can go back there again. The backpacker district is obviously a magnet for beggars/peddlers. If another Xe Om (scooter) taxi trys to hit me up I'll scream. I have noticed that it gets better the longer I am here, though. The same thing happened in Marrakesh. I don't know if it's ...

... stumbled upon Ben Thanh Market and explored the many stalls selling a multitude of things.One shocking experience I had was having a man come up to me, a vietnam war veteran supposedly, and asked for money. This might seem normal enough, especially in Vietnam, but his skin was heavily burnt and deformed, with the skin beneath his eyes really loose, so you could see his whole eyeballs, it was pretty bloody ...

... the cheap option of going by bus. I'm using the Mekong Express which seems by all reports to be one of the best options for the journey, with onboard toilet and tv as luxurious extras, the toilet especially being rather useful when you're on a bus for 12 hours!! But it's only costing around $24 one-way, so I can't complain.

So this week I've not been doing too much. I've been into the city ...

... I think it was about 8 quid, but still we think he wanted us to have a positive experience to remember from 'his home town'.

We did some shopping and then watched the sun go down at bar on the 28th floor of the Sheraton. We had to move away from the edge when the thunder storm started shortly after.

The following day we went on a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels. Cu Chi was one of the most bombed/attacked areas during the US war, the locals and VC used ...

Oh well, I guess that it was inevitable, and now I've got it out of the way I will be wise to the experience! I'd been in the city centre on my own for literally less than ten minutes, and clearly had Not Street Wise written all over me...I'm too trusting and forgot any advice that Lonely Planet has to offer!...anyway, cut a long story short, I encountered a Cyclo driver who took full advantage of me and got a bit ...

... 273;ẹp và rất cổ kính, được xây dựng từ năm 1880 và được tôn tạo năm 1995.



Nhiệt độ trung bình hàng năm ở Trà Cổ
là 22 ...

... khác), mà sau đó người thợ cả đã ném nó xuống hồ. Một ngôi làng bên bờ hồ Onega (Ảnh: du lịch và đặt phòng khách sạn cùng chudu24 web đặt khách sạn ...

... và đặt phòng khách sạn cùng chudu24

web đặt khách sạn online: http://www.chudu24.com/khach-san.html)







(Ả ;nh: du lịch và đặt phòng khách s ...

Last night I just crashed. I was sooo tired I went to bed around 9:45pm and woke up at 7am. I felt GREAT! My body is definitely adjusting to the time difference which I thought it was going to be harder.

Today I walked around and took moterbikes around Saigon. I did the typical sights that most tourist do. Nothing really stuck out all that much. The one thing that did is called Water Puppets. Its AMAZING. They put on short ...

... lush and green. We stopped off at some magnificent caves the scale of which I have never seen before. Then the next day it is back to Hanoi again for our last few nights. We visit Ho Chi Minh who has been 'pickled' so that people can come and pay their respects and enjoy spending the last few days together!
Vietnam is an amzing country though for anyone wishing to go I would reccomend the north over the south!
Now Thailand awaits!

Love abi xxxxx