Ho Chi Minh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Monday, November 9, 2009
Today we got up early to find outwhat timesthe buses left for Hoi-An, we arrived at the travel agency at 8:10am and discovered we had missed the morning bus by a measly 10 minutes, the next bus was 12 hours away! Shit! We had to kill a whole day so we grabbed a bite to eat,dumped our bags and then laboured our way through the humidity of Ho Chi Minh City(HCMC) to the cathedral, a really nice beautiful building, with beautiful statues surrounding it. Unfortunately it seems lady-luck is against us today, the cathedral was closed until 3pm, over 2 hours away. We went to the central post office to escape from the sun but were greeted by a mildly cool luke-warm post office, a fairly grand building, with the daddy; Ho Chi Minh, overseeing proceedings. We met Brent (a Kiwi living in Sydney) and spent the day chatting with him and went to a nice ice cream shop, a rivetting day! We boarded our bus (with sleeper seats) at 8pm to Nha Trang, a stepping stone to our real destination; Hoi An.
