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We'd got a bus ticket in Hanoi that let us go from there to Hoi An, to Nah Trang, to Muine and to Ho Chi Minh- all for one price. Of course, I lost my bus ticket in Nah Trang and had to buy a new one :( The driver wouldn't stop long enough for girls to go and find someone to relieve themselves but me and Kelly were so bursting that we just pushed past him and ran down a little path to find an abandoned hut overlooked by a house, but we were really past caring by that point. We quickly ran bac to the bus just as the driver was about to leave without us!
We got a Bungalow on the beach at Muine Backpackers for $10 each! :) It was beautifully sunny and the coastline was covered with windsurfers with that infamous Vietnamese wind! Muine seems very 'luxury' and also seems very popular with Russians. It is covered in seafood resturants- yum!
Went on a great tour in a US truck. There was an Osterich which you could ride which was horrible and it didn't look like it could take the weight at all, let alone when full grown men were riding it like a bucking bronco! :( We walked up the Fairy Springs with red rock on either side that looked like something from Arizona, towards a waterfall. We went to the sand dunes, stopping at Muine town on the way where there were hundreds of little fishing ships. Really great view. A Canadian guy in our group hired a quadbike, tried to show off and flipped it down the dune- well done! Got some obligatory jumping photos on top of the dunes.
Ho Chi Minh
The bus picked us up at 2am from Muine- which we definitely would have missed if we hadn't run half a mile down the road when we saw a coach go by that seemed like it might be ours. It definitely did not pick us up from our hotel! Anyway, we got on eventually and arrived at 7am and checked into 'My Home' guest house which was loverrly!
We walked to the War Remnants Museum (chiling experience!) and learnt about Agent Orange. I heard a shocked voice say 'Soph!' and turned around to see Jamie!! We met everyone that night and went out. After meeting at Crazy Buffalo, we headed to Utopia Club then tried to get into Gogo's. Kim running under the bouncher's arm probably was not the best way to try to get in.
Went to the Cu Chi tunnels. How claustrophic! Had the pleasure of going first down a tunnel on hands and knees through inches of leaves in the pitch black, pressing the capture button on my camera as I went along to use the flash as a light, with Kim and Kelly close behind. I felt something above my head and then... FLASH... 'Aaaaagghhh there's a bat in my hair!' We could not stop laughing/crying and got to the end of the tunnel ASAP. 'Can't you get Rabies from bats?'
When we went to the Post Office we had a hand full of people seperately come up to us with clipboards to practice their English- you'd never get that in the UK! We sat in a pretty garden looking at the 'Notre Dame Cathedral' that the French had built when Saigon was occupied.
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