day2 vietnam
well... stella and I managed to get across the road using frogger maneuveurs last nite (my heart was pounding - i was sure that minivan was going straight for us! - let alone all the scooters!)... there is a huge park across the road that had all these stalls so we finally decided on a clean looking one and had some pork rib thing... listened to some vietnamese screeching (think they were singing) and ventured back to the hotel... Today - we were meant to get picked up at 8.30 for Cu Chi tunnels... well we got picked up with 2 other girls at our hotel and delivered to this bus which had a couple too many people... and anyway about an hour later we got pushed off the bus - cos it was apparently the wrong one!! (going up to Nha Trang half way up the coast) so a taxi driver took us back into town... The hotel was really apologetic and gave us some flowers each which was nice... The rest of the day we wandered around - went to the war remnants museum which was pretty interesting and had some gruesome photos of what happened...
Tonight we went for a meal across the road and the very top of this lop-sided restaurant... and it poured I mean POURED with rain - the roads got flooded people were crossing the road up to their knees in water... 2 hours later we thought we would venture back while there was a break in the weather - only half way up my shins... and ohh its is lovely shuffling along in flip flops through dirty water with bit of noodles etc floating past... all part of the fun tho ;)
Well we have booked thru a different company for tomorrow's adventure to the Mekong Delta... the hotel where we are staying (superior class) looks pretty fancy so it should be good... not sure whether the village we are staying at will do many NY celebrations but am sure Stella and I will have fun.
Anyway nearly bed time...
PS posted some photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68067&l=4ef29&id=715042553