Sofitel Plaza Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh 4 Sept - 6 Sept. Our annual short getaway from the mundane routine in our life and wanted to renew our mind as one. 4 Sept - Woke up at 4.30am. It was such a short sleep as the night before we actually slept almost 1am to pack. Our flight was 7.35am so we had to leave for airport early at 5.30am. I didn't call a cab, thought it was easy to catch one so we went down to catch a cab but he thought I should call one and thus we waited further for one to come after calling. We flew by ...

Quite strange to spend my birthday half a world away from all & any of my nearest & dearest... but it was a good day. In the morning Eric & Tim took me to the Saigon zoo, where I got to feed sugar cane to an elephant, and fruit to a monkey that had simply.. walked out of its cage. The macaques are small enough to just slip out between the bars, and they run around on the fence, occasionally jumping down among us to grab for a stray bag of chips. Why they don't run further is.. you...

Quand l'alarme du radio-réveil a sonné à 4h du mat, jeudi matin, j'étais tellement claquée que je ne me suis pas sentie concernée. Je me suis juste tourné de bord et je suis replongé dans mon sommeil profond. Par miracle, Dominic a compris et s'est levé, habité d'une énergie que je ne lui connaissait pas, et nous nous sommes préparé pour le grand départ. "On part un mois!" me dit Dominic à l'aéroport. "C'est long un mois!" On anticipe notre périple avec un mélange de crainte et d'excitation."...