Our Final Day
Trip Start
Dec 02, 2008
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Trip End
Jan 03, 2009
Darwin,
Northern Territory,
Australia
Saturday, January 3, 2009
We quickly checked out and put our baggage in storage and then grabbed a taxi to head to the Southern Vietnam Women's Museum, where they had many famous Vietnamese women and gave a good idea of what it was like to be a woman in Vietnam. It was interesting that, apart from the war-related women, it was all about cooking and making clothes. It was an interesting experience and we took a few photos and then headed for our next destination, the Jade Emperor Pagoda.
On the way, we saw a cafe called Galaxy and had some Vietnamese food for lunch before visiting the Jade Pagoda. Kythera had told me that this was the best pagoda in Saigon, however, it seems to be under construction so it wasn't as cool as some other places we've visited. There was a pond at the front with some live fish and some dead fish, as well as a pond on the side with the most turtles I have ever seen! Ophelia was fascinated.
We then headed back to our hotel and spent a final afternoon walking the streets of Saigon before heading to dinner at our favourite Saigon restaurant, Milwaukee's.
After dinner, we went back to the hotel, picked up our baggage and headed to the airport.
We checked in to our flight, did some duty free shopping and hopped on the plane back to Australia. Jonas didn't settle for the whole 4 hour flight from Saigon to Darwin - he slept properly for maybe an hour or so - and I found Ophelia some spare seats and she laid out and slept pretty much the whole flight.
