Day 46: Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) III, Vietnam

 27/12/2006
considering today was my last day it was a hectic day because the stupid travel agent just had to sell me the tickets to see the Cu Chi tunnels – more on that later! Rosh and I had the alarm on at 7 knowing that we’d snooze it up to 7:30, which came true. We [...]

Day 45: Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) II, Vietnam

26/12/2006
Today was a write-off, after getting home at 4 from GO2 I only got 5 hours sleep, had to get up at 9, but didn’t end up getting out until 11, sitting in bed watching the Boxing Day Test (yay for satellite!). We were supposed to go to the Cu Chi tunnels today but didn’t [...]

Day 44: Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), Vietnam

25/12/2006
We got up early in the morning to finish packing our bags and also so I could go and pick up my custom made messenger bag. I made my early morning phone calls back home to wish everyone merry christmas and then had some pho as I rushed to around the city, it was crap, [...]

Day 42: Hoi An II, Vietnam

24/12/2006
Christmas eve in Hoi An was quite frantic, it became the official day of refits. We ran around to all the shops that we had visited the day before where the orders were made – because Rosh and I slept in, Yaly gave our hotel a courtesy call and tried to wake us up, heh. [...]

Day 41: Hoi An, Vietnam

23/12/2006
So we got up at 4 am to catch a Vietnam Airlines flight to Danang airport (our times been cut short and we couldn’t do trains) en route to Hoi An. Everything went smoothly and we arrived early to be greeted by a wanker taxi driver who wouldn’t take us to the destinations that [...]

Day 40: Halong Bay II

22/12/2006
We got up fairy early this morning for some breakfast and then a visit to some floating markets – yet another commission based stop for these tourist agencies, heh. Here’s the view:

We headed straight home after that and ended up in Hanoi late afternoon. We had arranged to meet with Mark and Danni for [...]

Day 39: Halong Bay I

21/12/2006
After a big night out and getting back to the room a bit woozy, I had to get up early so we could catch the bus and boat to Halong Bay. It was about a 1 hour bus ride before we arrived at Vietnam’s richest city (because of the discovery of coal mines). We got [...]

Day 38: Hanoi, Vietnam

20/12/2006
Today was te first real day of sight seeing, beginning the day early with Rosh meeting up to go to Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum*, however you spell it. It’s pretty much the body of Ho Chi Minh and you get to see the great job that Madam Tussaud did – that was the running joke [...]

Day 36: Hanoi, Vietnam

18/12/2006
Manny had woken up this morning still complaining of a massive headache which she had got the day before, so we decided to FORCE her to go to the hospital, and as unwilling as she was, we convinced her to go – even in her PJs. We didn’t have to wait long until she was [...]

Day 35: Luang Prabang, Laos & Hanoi, Vietnam

17/12/2006
We got up pretty late this morning from a massive farewell night in Luang Prabang, which was an AWESOME night. We nursed our hangovers with some great breaky across the road from our guesthouse (I had the BEST noodle soup, I guess Laos saved the best for last). So we sat there for an hour [...]