Googbye Vietnam
Trip Start
Sep 01, 2008
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Trip End
May 16, 2008
Chau Doc, Vietnam
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
We have now arrived in our final destination in Vietnam, Chau Doc, before we get the boat to Pnom Penh and onwards through Cambodia!
We are also very much hoping that the boat journey is worth the effort it took us to get here today! We have been on the road since 9am and had to get a taxi, a local bus and then a mini bus for a six hour journey, which ended up being eleven hours! There were very bad road works, then the air con broke down, then the bus broke down completely and we had to wait for a replacement, then we had to transfer to another bus, before being dropped off in the middle of nowhere and we had to get motorbikes to our (very depressing) hotel! There is now also torrential rain, just to make our last night special!
However, after our few days of shopping and lying on the beach in Hoi An, we moved onto Nha Trang and had a couple more days of bumming around before we hit Siagon. A cool city with plenty of cheap beer, like Hanoi, but wider streets and more traffic! We went to the Cu Chi Tunnels and the War Remnants Museum yesterday for a day of grim, educational tourism! We went down into the tunnels, which is a bit like potholing, but we decided against firing A-K47s or M16s, which you can do for eight pounds for ten bullets!
J & F
P.S Sorry for the lack of photos, but it takes ages to upload them and quite frankly we have better things to do!
