vietnam day 1 - ho chi minh!!

budget budget!!















boarding @ 645am




















the Mekong River!! much bettere than in ur "O" level Geo textbk rite??















see we're so damn well-prepared!! but actually hor the more books we haf the more indecisive we will be...















see how contented she is with the room of choice!!















i wonder how did they manage to trace the wirings de.. and this pillar is not the worst of them all....















according to Lonely Planet (or is it Footprints....?) the only way we can cross the roads here is by walking very slowly.. so that the motorists can weave ard us.... dun run!! apparently there're 4.5 million motorbikes in juz Saigon alone... enough to distrivute one each in Singapore lehz....

Brunch!! managed to find this stall some distance away from the main touristy street... but once we're out of that street, no one speaks english... feeling damn handicapped leh.... the Vietnamese mainly eat rice and noodles... usually rice with "sth else"... meat...grilled or boiled... noodle soup with meat... oh they're diet consist of lots of raw cabbages and mint!! i nv constipate there....

















yb damn interested to see wad the ppl are selling in their baskets... and she found daohuey!! in the bustling market of chinatown... decided to explore the area on foot... LOTS of walking!! managed to find the local Chinatown where we found ONE chinese-speaking uncle!! so damn happy.... i saw a stall selling damn nice roast duck but no matter how hard we tried to explain wad we wan....i wanted a drumstick... no one in that stall understands!! damn...

anyway the map in those guide books r not exactly very accurate lehz.... the road is definitely longer than it seems on the map.... we gave up after walking 800km along that 1 street... heng ah!! the moment we boarded a bus to Ben Thanh Market, it started raining lightly....















wahahhh!! limousine!! long as a bus... i tot ppl here has lower standards of living...? talking in standards of living...i got sth to share... next time...remind me k?



















feet damn tired le... so decided to sit down for a drink!! their tables and stools all damn low can?? next day i got backaches from eating at the roadsides le...















the roast duck stall!!















dinner was at Ben Thanh market.. quite a touristy spot, but we managed to find quite cheap foodfare.. hehe... juz dun go to stalls where u see lots of angmohs...