Have arrived safe and sound. The flights were much better than I expected - getting roughly 5 hours sleep on the way to Singapore (5 hours more that I expected). Had lots of "video-on-demand" movies to choose from, and the food was fansastic (gone are the days of crappy airline food - at least on Singapore Airlines) - we certanily didn't go hungry!
Was awesome to fly into Ho Chi Ming City with the last 20 minutes of approach over the Mekong Delta - where we want to spend the next few days. To see the size of it by air has given us a real appreciation of it. It was amaizing to see so many towns and villages with their lush green plots all linked up by hundreds of little canals without a road in sight for hundreds of miles around! Immigration went smoothly - a bit worrying to see all airport staff with surgical masks on.
Getting onto the street again was such a cool feeding. Having all your senses overloaded by the intense sights, smells, sounds, dirt and overall chaos of this place - brought back so many memories of our last trip to this part of the world. Its such an intensly busy place - there is so much to see. We had lunch at a street stall and just soaked the place up - while the heat soaked up all our energy.
Spent the day going around looking at and booking internal flights and our trip to the mekong.
Its so great to be here!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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Great to hear you're safe and sound and on the ground! Looking forward to more installments.... feeling insanely jealous too, weather is crap here and we're all going a bit mental because of it.
ReplyDeleteDitto! Craig and the boys spent Saturday at Mike and Sheran's; the kids had lots of fun playing hide and seek :)
ReplyDeleteOh the adventure beings. Well done you two, cant wait for the updates!
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