Moving on
After seven days of relaxing, drinking, partying and almost drowning in the ocean, we felt it was time to go on with our journey. We had so much fun in Hoi An, best so far and that's why we stayed there that long and that's why we haven't bloged that much either. Met so many fun and cool people and just enjoyed our time in Hoi An as much as we could. We just had too fun to sit down by the computer and write here, sorry guys ;)
Drinking at Phattie's. This was monday 12:00. It turned out to be a looong day.
Same day, couple of hours later. Now with two british girls, Sofie & Roz who
we tricked into coming to phattie's that day. They ended up missing their bus.
A last photo outside our sanctuary.
But all fun has its ends. We left Hoi An on wednesday 18:00. The first plan was to go to the beach city Nha Trang, but after a few hours of thinking we changed our minds and decided to head straight for Saigon. Reason? Simply that it rains in all of southern vietnam right now and there are floodings here and there (including Nha Trang). So we'd rather spend the rainy days in a big city like Saigon than a beach town. The bus ride was fun - 24 hours! And it was a crappier bus than the one we had from Hanoi to Hue. Not enough curtains to make it dark, no toilet(!) and less space for the legs. But, amazing as we are, we made it! Arrived in Saigon around 19:00. Found a cheap hotel and then had dinner and a few beers with some friends we had met in Hoi An. Actually, we saw six people our first two hours here in Saigon, that we had earlier met in Hoi An. Probably not gonna be the last time either.
View from the bus, not too bad.
We had a good night sleep (needed that from the bus ride), went for breakfast about one o'clock and then to the cambodian embassy to fix our visas. Best embassy ever! The visas took 17 minutes to get, Chris had forgot his photo and we both needed photocopies of our passports according to the rules. They didn't care. We just paid and got the visas 17 minutes later, awesome! Celebrated with som icecream and then moved on to the first and only museum we've planned on visiting in Saigon - The War Remnants Museum. They focus on collecting, preserving and exhibiting proofs of Vietnam War crimes and their consequenses. There were many, many horrible and awful photos of civilians that were injured or killed in the war. Children lying dead in the streets, victims of napalm with half their faces burnt off, deformed children born in the 90's - a result of the chemical warfare the U.S applied.
They also had the story behind the war with lots of photos with that. Really interesting - and terrible.
Celebrating our Cambodian visas.
Say hello to my little friend!
Now we're back in our hotel. Took a taxi back, since heaven opened up and decided to make this city a swimming pool. Going out for dinner soon. In the upcoming days we're going to excursions to the Mekong Delta and to some tunnels used during the war. Don't exactly know which days we'll do what, but we'll figure.
/C & M
Drinking at Phattie's. This was monday 12:00. It turned out to be a looong day.
Same day, couple of hours later. Now with two british girls, Sofie & Roz who
we tricked into coming to phattie's that day. They ended up missing their bus.
A last photo outside our sanctuary.
But all fun has its ends. We left Hoi An on wednesday 18:00. The first plan was to go to the beach city Nha Trang, but after a few hours of thinking we changed our minds and decided to head straight for Saigon. Reason? Simply that it rains in all of southern vietnam right now and there are floodings here and there (including Nha Trang). So we'd rather spend the rainy days in a big city like Saigon than a beach town. The bus ride was fun - 24 hours! And it was a crappier bus than the one we had from Hanoi to Hue. Not enough curtains to make it dark, no toilet(!) and less space for the legs. But, amazing as we are, we made it! Arrived in Saigon around 19:00. Found a cheap hotel and then had dinner and a few beers with some friends we had met in Hoi An. Actually, we saw six people our first two hours here in Saigon, that we had earlier met in Hoi An. Probably not gonna be the last time either.
View from the bus, not too bad.
We had a good night sleep (needed that from the bus ride), went for breakfast about one o'clock and then to the cambodian embassy to fix our visas. Best embassy ever! The visas took 17 minutes to get, Chris had forgot his photo and we both needed photocopies of our passports according to the rules. They didn't care. We just paid and got the visas 17 minutes later, awesome! Celebrated with som icecream and then moved on to the first and only museum we've planned on visiting in Saigon - The War Remnants Museum. They focus on collecting, preserving and exhibiting proofs of Vietnam War crimes and their consequenses. There were many, many horrible and awful photos of civilians that were injured or killed in the war. Children lying dead in the streets, victims of napalm with half their faces burnt off, deformed children born in the 90's - a result of the chemical warfare the U.S applied.
They also had the story behind the war with lots of photos with that. Really interesting - and terrible.
Celebrating our Cambodian visas.
Say hello to my little friend!
Now we're back in our hotel. Took a taxi back, since heaven opened up and decided to make this city a swimming pool. Going out for dinner soon. In the upcoming days we're going to excursions to the Mekong Delta and to some tunnels used during the war. Don't exactly know which days we'll do what, but we'll figure.
/C & M
Kommentarer
Postat av: Elise
Kul bussresa? :P kram till er båda
Postat av: Marie
Äntligen får vi höra från er! Verkar ha varit en ny utmaning på den bussresan, men fina vyer.Glassen verkar inte heller så dum.Stannar ni länge i Saigon?
Många kramar
Postat av: Christopher
Ja, men vi har typ inte haft nåt att skriva innan nu ju :P Bussresan kändes kortare än så tack och lov, men lika skumpig som första. Vi stannar nog till tisdag här i saigon, har inte riktigt bestämt vart vi drar vidare än.
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