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Last day in Ho Chi Minh City

The War Remnants Museum is a fantastic place to go to learn about the atrocities of the war with America.  We spent at least 2 hours in there… so much photography of events that are unfolding in front of you, like you are there at the time of it happening. Horrendous, but it is a must!

Went to another one of the many markets in the city… Some treasures amongst the sea of tat in there. Takes patience, though!

Went to a chocolatier’s and bought some bars of lovely chocolate as gifts and some for ourselves.

Had a huge a burger to adjust back normal food.

Burger

Biggest burger

Had a drink at the rooftop bar while we waited to go to the airport.

View from Grand hotel rooftop bar

View from grand hotel rooftop bar

Nearly home time 🙁

Suitcases

:(

Boarded flight at 12:30am….

*Sigh*, gone!

First night in Ho Chi Minh


Lovely hotel room. We booked one of the oldest rooms in the hotel as this girl was built in 1930. Nice wee room. One minor quibble:

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We went out of dinner to Baba’s Indian curry house in the backpacker district. Fantastic curry. I asked for a spicy prawn dish, and they didn’t hold up on the chilli seeds. Really good! Definitely give it a go of you find yourself in Ho Chi Minh.

After that we wanted to go for a quiet drink in a nice pub…

We went her went the lols… it was painful…

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Found another pub that was showing WWE so we watched that and had a few.

Much Rainier here but it is a lovely place.

Hoi An Silk Village review

Fantastic pool, albeit mentally hot for … water.

The best room we stayed in, by far. Had everything you needed, plus more.

Great location just outside the Old Town so it was quiet at night without being a trek to anywhere (15 minute walk)

poor breakfast.

9 Reb points
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(Removed 1 because breakfast wasn’t as good as it could be)

Indoor day

Not feeling great today, plus my body is sunned-out!

Laura went for a massage so it figures…

BFQTY and pizza

BFQTY and pizza

It was bright 10 minutes ago…

Hoi An at night

The view from our porch

Hoi An night sky

Le moon

We are a rarity

“First impressions of Hoi An?” – Laura

“Very small amount of white people” – Me

Context: Today marks the second third day of a stranger of Asian decent taking a picture of us without us being asked first. We are a sight to behold in this part of the world.

We are a spectacle

It is a nice feeling and an angry one. Are we really that photo-worthy? I don’t go round taking pictures of every race I see, like some sort of xenophile scrapbook. Only to parade the photos on a timeline that I have no control over.

Next time it happens, I’ll put on my best angry face. That’ll show ’em!

</rant>

Just checked in to Hoi An

£30 a night…

Resort complex

Resort

Pool

Pool

Our room

Our room

Our room

Our room

Not too shabby. We did well!

Essence Hotel, Hanoi review

Impeccable! Extremely polite. Extremely helpful. Their breakfast was great. Their dinner was great. Air-con. Laptop in the room. Quiet room despite being in the middle of mayhem on the streets… there was a beer festival going on and we couldn’t hear any of it.

Right in the middle of everything, so restaurants, shops, buses, taxis, everything was easy!

10 Reb points
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(Nout wrong with this place)

Good morning, Vietnam!

This is a breakfast fit for a king in comparison to the previous hotel we were at. A lovely variety of fruit, cakes, and meats.

Essence hotel breakfast

Essence hotel breakfast

We both had the French toast with cinnimon and it was great! Brilliant start to the day, we will need it to survive the hotter temperature here.

First night in Hanoi

After a 45 minute drive from the airport, we arrive right in the middle of it all! The streets are 10 times busier here than in Cambodia. Streets that are the width of a large Europenian car are being walked on, driven through, cycled through, and biked through all at once … with millimeters to spare. It’s impressive. If I was driving I would have been stressed about the damage, but our driver is obviously used to it.

We got out the taxi and were greeted by this. The street was so densely packed with people, the atmosphere was fantastic. Food everywhere, beer everywhere, people everywhere.

Old Quarter - Hanoi

Old Quarter – Hanoi

Our room

Our room

After dumping all our stuff in the room, next on the agenda was dinner. We had a wonder round the streets near our hotel and sat down at one of the many placed that offer food. All the place you can eat or drink at have tiny tables and chairs for you to sit on! We went for Salt & Pepper Chicken (grissle or feet, we are not sure). We tried it, but didnt eat all of it as it was basically like eating cartilidge. Great experience, though.

Chicken

Salt & pepper chicken feet

Our view from our seat

Our view from our seat

The hotel room has a laptop in it. Total Good send, as using my mobile all the time is wearing thin. A previous guest was clearly a connaisseur of the adult material, with such a specific search term to get right to it.

Google search history

Google search history

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Oft.

You know who you are, Dirty blighter!

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