We've just arrived in Ho Chi Minh City and are both feeling rather messed up from a combination of way too long away from home, it being about 4am in our bodies but 10am here, and no sleep since 6am yesterday morning. We arrived at 7 o'clock this morning and thankfully our hotel will allow us to check in at 10 rather than the usual 2pm, so we're only 10 minutes away from showers and a change of clothes.
We're both finding it difficult to get fired up about acquainting ourselves with yet another city, especially one as crazy as this. Our taxi driver informed us on the way to the hotel that there are 10 million people in this city, and I think every one of them was on the roads this morning. Most people ride around on scooters (no helmets of course) and no one looks where they're going. From our short walk around we've already learnt that you don't look when you cross the road, you just look down at the road, grit your teeth and walk across. They do make way but it's very frightening.
We've booked five nights here but we're already considering seeing if we can change our flights to a couple of days earlier - it's probably not possible, but it's such a good thought to get home a few days earlier than planned that we want to try!
If not, we'll make the best of our time here. We're considering doing a full day cooking course including a morning visit to the Ben Thanh Market, which is close to our hotel. We decided to buy a guide book this morning because we know literally nothing about the city, so we got a Lonely Planet guide from a stall on the street, and of course it is a dodgy photocopy inside a glossy cover. Oh well. We're too buggered and indifferent to complain, so we'll just count it as one more stupid bastard tourist mistake. Other than this we'll probably just roam the streets and drink cocktails and beer (not much different from anywhere else really).
I can't even be bothered looking up the Vietnamese word for goodbye even though we got a 'free' phrasebook with our guidebook.
Seeya
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I know it feels like home is the best thing on earth right now, and it is cos I'm here of course :) but when you feel like its all too much in these last couple of days, just imagine for a moment being back at work in a months time, staring at the computer screen, playing paper planes games on the internet to pass the hours... live up the last couple of days baby - even if you're in zombie land :)... I'm just jealous because i just described my current life at work... Luv Yvette
Only one thing worth doing in hochi - get yourselves around a big banquet in the locals area!!
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