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Trip Start Jun 14, 2008
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Trip End Jul 02, 2008


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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Yesterday was a travel day from Dalat to Ho Chi Mihn City.  We didn't have to leave till noon, so we got up and packed all of our things.  Then nate and i decided we would go to get a massage.  We walked about 5 min. to another hotel that had massage in it and turns out that they don't open till 2 for massages.  So we decided to just walk around a bit and ended up picking up 1 kg of coffee beans.  After that we just hung out in the room for an hour or two before we had to be downstairs for the bus.
     The bus left and we went and had lunch at a roadside tourist trap place.  It ended up being pretty cool.  They had a waterfall area.  After we ate most of us went inside the waterfall area.  You had to pay 10,000 dong to get in but i feel it was worth the 60 cents.  There was a trail that went all around the pond area where the waterfall dropped in to.  So you could walk behind the waterfall.  We got some pretty good pictures.  On our way out we saw an ostrich with a saddle on it.  Apparently you could ride the ostrich.  I didn't think that the bird could hold my fat @$$ so i decided to not get on the bird. 
     So we got back on the bus and had about a 1/2 hour drive to the airport.  We were at the airport an hour before we had to fly out.  It was a pretty small airport, so not much to do.  Unfortunately our plane ended up being late and we had a longer wait at the airport.  Flight was on a puddle jumper again, i think this has been our 7th or 8th flight since we started the trip.  A lot of plaine rides. 
     So back to Ho Chi Mihn city.  We stopped for dinner at a fairly nice place just around the corner from our hotel that served seafood.  It was all pretty good, minus the Durian flavored rice.  For those that don't know, durian is a delicacy over here.  It's a fruit that basically smells to me like rotting flesh.  YUM!  But i was a trooper and tried the rice.  Wasn't too strong of a durian flavor but you could tell it was in it.  After dinner we got checked in to the hotel and waited for our bags to show up, we had them trucked down from Dalat.  Nate, Jen, Christi and I had a beer in the hotel lobby bar while we were waiting.  They were too expensive(1.90/bottle) so we headed out to find a little pub after we got our bags. 
     We ended up finding this place that nate and i saw while were were here at the begining of the trip.  It was called Lion restaraunt and brewery.  Right up my alley!  So we sat down and they only had two types of beer, Dark and Blonde.  Naturally i got the dark.  Both nate and i got liters, which by the way were only 4.25/liter.  A lot better than the prices at the hotel. 
    While we were there, I was talking about brewing my own beer and mentioning that i would love to get up by the fermenters and take a picture.  Jen ended up asking the bartender about it and i didn't figure they would let me.  To my surprise he didn't even hesitate to say yeah it would be fine.  so we got some pretty cool pictures of nate and i up on the platform that is around the fermenters.  I was stoked about that.  After that we just came back to the hotel and went to bed.  Now here i am, we have a free day in Ho Chi Mihn city.  I'm going to get some shopping done and hopefully send some stuff home via mail so i don't have to lug it around thailand with me.  Well it's been fun.  More updates to come soon.
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