Day 4
After an unsuccessful stab at biking Vietnam we have sadly been defeated... Today we tried to get back to Ho Chi Minh but couldn't even get Scott's bike to run long enough to get there so we decided to turn back and see if we could get it on a bus. Eventually figured out there were no buses big enough to transport a bike, only van shuttles. I spotted a truck parked outside the bus depot and convinced a guy to load the bike up and take it to Ho Chi Minh. After dicking around about price we settled on 1.4m dong. Around 70$ bucks. Kinda expensive but we were in a desperate spot so we went for it... Scott rode in the truck and I biked it there. Once we got to Ho Chi Minh I had to battle on bike through the ridiculous mess of traffic that is Saigon. No traffic lights, no real rules of the road, pedestrians basically just walk out in the middle of it all and the bikes and taxis just seem to dodge around... It was pretty intense but I considered it a personal victory that I made it in one piece. We met up with the expat job pepper that sold us the bikes and he gave us a full refund... 8.4M dong per bike... About 400$US.
After that was out of the way we went and had a quick workout, about a 30 min lift. We both were hot, tired and hadn't eaten but we crushed out some decent lifts and the little Vietnamese all stared and watched us. Pretty funny.
Eventually we grabbed a cab after killing some more time and headed for the airport. Just about every flight that goes out of the domestic terminal is just automatically delayed. Everything runs late. We fly out to Hanoi tonight, about a 2 hour flight... And we have a hotel booked for when we get there... Apparently Hanoi is a much more western influenced city and it quite a party town... A mere 6.5 million ppl as opposed to Ho Chi Minh at 7.4 million ppl.