Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Saigon - Saturday 1st December
Good morning Vietnam! We arrived in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City as not that many of the locals call it after another bottom-numbing 7 hour bus ride. Our crossing over the border went smoothly, and we checked into a small family guesthouse up a winding alley within about half an hour of arriving.
Our first impressions of the city are good - it's buzzing with hundreds of motorbikes and mopeds, is far more developed and cosmopolitan ...