Van Lang Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... on the Lido deck again tonight. There were several people from our CAA group there & they were surprised as to how many people eat on the Lido deck & stated they will be joining us there again.

I am posting this a bit early tonight as I have 3 days to post. Yesterday the ship had internet issues all day, even during our Microsoft seminars. If anything interesting happens tonight I will put it in tomorrow’s post... heck we may even stay up until 2300 tonight!!

... After the museum we went to the reunification palace to find out it was closed due to meetings, so we went to the one of the local markets where there is a huge selection of souvenirs, clothes,
jewelery, and food. We could only stay in here for a few minutes, as it was a hot cramped building. So we just went back to cool down ready for another night of Bia Hoi.We meet up with Nate, Pete (Americans) and Manmeet (From London area) and had some Bai ...

... downer part to the day, but worth seeing for certain.
On our way back to the guesthouse for a rest we stopped in the park and watced about 100 Vietnamese people enjoy a game which is a lot like hacki sack and badminton. A nice man studying English came over and talked to us for a bit about our home towns, snow and how Vietnamese people always come to the park after work ad school instead of going home to ...

... is a big name in Vietnam.

8. Frozen Yoghurt - there are loads of frozen yoghurt joints in Saigon (there seem to be Tutti Frutti on every corner!) so we gave it a go and it was loads of fun! It's self service so you take a tub, help yourself to as much frozen yoghurt as you want (there were about eight different flavours - I chose plain and coffee) and then add toppings and sauces (chocolate and chocolate for me... Mmmm...). It was great fun and the end result was ...

... torn apart by war and guns much like it’s neighbour Cambodia and where the effects of the war and it’s aftermath are still everywhere shooting an AK-47 sort of went against the grain. But then I got back into backpacker mode and in the same mind frame as going to visit San Pedro prison in La Paz where I really don’t morally agree with everything I’ve done on this trip I do sometimes have to think - when am I ever going to get the chance ...

... 7883;ch rộng hàng chục km2, trung tâm của khu du lịch là băi biển Đồng Châu dài 5km, nơi đây đă h́nh thành hệ thống các khách sạn, nhà nghỉ cao tầng phục v ...

... hai, cĂ³ vĂ o nửa sau thế kỷ 18. CĂ¡c tranh thĂ¡nh của 3 tầng trĂªn cao tạo thĂ nh nhĂ³m thứ ba vĂ  cĂ³ vĂ o khoảng đầu thế kỷ 18 vĂ  cĂ³ lẽ được đưa từ nơi ...

... chudu24, du lịch, khách sạn, du lich, khach san, khach san Hoi An, khách sạn Hội An, khach san Hue, khách sạn Huế, khách sạn Hạ Noi, khach san Hà Nội, đặt pḥng khách ...

... t translate well so I could go with “Just Wadz”. It also helps when making introductions. When people ask my name and I say Wadzanai they get that glazed kind of “oh sherbet” look in their eyes. The language thing! How do you manipulate yourself around Wadzanai if your phonetics are different JAH (I’m working with two Germans). Anyway once I see the glazed look and I say call me Wadzi suddenly the eyes ...

... on the left) that it confuses me now.
And why is it that Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam drive on the right unlike Thailand? Just asking.

The Vietnamese, in my brief experience thus far, have been lovely. I really expected the worst after what people told me but here they're really sweet and friendly.
I even had my purse mended by a lady for free...for free! In the backpacker ghetto!
Maybe Marx wasn't so wrong about people after all.....