Vietnam.......stories so far....

So after checking in and sorting out the stuff in our bags to decide what we were going to send home (which turned out to be 2 big bag fulls weighing 5kg!) we decided to venture out to find the post office...... Leaving the safety of the hotel was quite hard as when we arrived we were given this info leaflet on crime and were initially quite worried as it was about not taking your phones or camera out and people snatching bags from you whilst there on there motorbikes, however we decided to wander around but just not to take the video camera or my phone, Luke decided that he would carry the camera and his phone and that we would both wear money belts, anyway.........

Walking around this busy busy city was just as shocking as what it was to us when we arrived and were driving through it ! Crossing the roads was so so dangerous, there was no pedestrian crossing, no body stopped for you, having read the info leaflet we got from the hotel which said the motorists would not stop for you you just had to cross the road and dodge the traffic! It was quite scary at times :( but I just held Luke's hand and we did it, this was the case every single day, every time we crossed a road! 

We quickly found the post office and having found it also found the notre dame cathedral aswell, both lovely lovely buildings :) we took some quick snaps before heading into the post office to investigate sending our stuff back :) it seemed like an easy task we decided to return in few days with our stuff to send back :)

The rest of the day was spent walking around taking in this very different city we were in! We also found a Hard Rock Cafe ! Bonus - English/American food! We were happy.

We spent a couple of days walking around, finding the sights and taking sneaky pics :) we did take the video camera out once but we felt quite vulnerable with it so we didn't do that again, during our days of walking around we got asked by motorists on motorbikes several thousand times if we wanted a ride somewhere - like a motorbike taxi ! Obs we said no who would do that?! We also saw some hideous hideous ways to cook meat/food which was really just on the floor or in pans that were crawling with bugs :( it's was disgusting, and then there were the smells .....oh the smells.... I couldn't even begin to describe them if I tried but they were bad :( we did want to try some of the local cuisine but having seen the way and the conditions it's cooked in we thought we would pass!

Over our time here we went to the Ho Chi Minh museum, went to the Ben thanh market (where Infact we walked in one side and out the other the smell was just numbing!), the post office, notre dame cathedral and lots of other random things! We enjoyed seeingt he sights and the way the local culture lived but were starting to get a little fed up with all the fumes from the motorists and just being in the busy city, there was one other thing we wanted to do .... The cu chi tunnels.......