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Well firstly my clothes were actually pretty dry when we woke up yesterday morning so I'm taking my washing as a success...and secondly we survived the crazy Ho Chi Minh traffic unharmed :) have never been anywhere so crazy but we eventually got used to boldly stepping out into streets 6/7 lanes wide, stuffed with motorbikes, vans and buses, in order to enjoy a great day at the CuChi Tunnels which the Vietcom used during the Vietnamese war. Tunnels were flabbergastingly tiny (tess made it 100m along them but sadly i failed 2m and had to cone back out..wimp!) and along with the fact that our war veteran guide kept telling us how he let his troops go AWOL if they wanted to, we began to understand why the communists won!! Nice bit of history there for me too :) our crazy guide was hilarious cracking out all his stories about the Americans he worked with, putting 'man' after every sentence and repeating his punch lines over and over again when they contained his favourite English swearing phrases!
After this we decided we could do with a nice manicure as they're to cheap here and were delighted to find a place that did a manicure and pedicure for about £3! However once all 6 of us girls were quickly upstairs into a little flat room we realised why it was so cheap as it turned out to be a few students making some extra cash! We were stacked on stools around this tiny room whilst they frantically stuck our feet in bowls (probably so we couldn't run away!) and grabbed our hands. Owing to the lack of colours available I currently have Barbie pink hands and feet whilst dear Tessy is sporting rather sophisticated clear fingernails and red toenails :) manicure wasn't awful but we've learnt that you do get what you pay for!!
Boarded our first night train last night which whilst hot and sticky was rather spacious compared to what we'd been expecting! We ate our prized subway and all piled into the boys' room (+ poor Ella!) to watch the Hangover 2 and munch on some panda crackers but were quick to return to our room when we spotted a ginormous cockroach entering their room..they never caught it!
Arrived at 5am in Nha Trang and went back to sleep at our hotel..about to set off for the beach!
See ya soon,
Flo and Tess :)
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YKW Eeeeeee sounds so good!