It ain't coca cola, it's rice...
February 4 2007
Go straight to HCMC boy...
After a fairly sleepless night in the Joy hotel, due to us having a room right next to reception and parties of booming Frenchmen arriving all night (most hannoying), we get taxi to airport at 8 a.m. Goodbye Hanoi.
So we catch the 11:00 a.m. plane from Hanoi back to Ho Chi Minh on our way to pick up all our dirty washing, left at our hotel in HCMC nearly 3 weeks ago. We are on our way to Cambodia, so have booked our bus to Phnom Penh tomorrow.
When we arrive in HCMC (Saigon) we take a taxi to our hotel. Strange, coming back to the place after 3 weeks, it's nothing like as intimidating as it appeared previously. The chaotic traffic, buzzing motorbikes and fume filled atsmophere are, well, normal. Even our hotel seems better than before ( or mayber that's in contrast to our time at The Joyless in Hanoi). It's still very hot down here though, lucky it's their 'cool dry' season.
We book a plane from Phnom Penh to HCMC for next Sunday (11th Feb) and then we're going to fly straight out to Singapore. This should hopefully eliminate the need for us getting a multi-entry visa to Vietnam (we only got single entry), as we'll be in transit and not have to go through Vietnam customs again. I've checked with 3 different sources to make sure we can do this (i.e. get our luggage checked all the way through to Singapore from PP) - although all answers heve been in the affirmative, I'm not 100% convinced. If you don't see us in the next couple of months, we're languishing in a Vietnam jail - please contact British Embassy and bring us home.
Go straight to HCMC boy...
After a fairly sleepless night in the Joy hotel, due to us having a room right next to reception and parties of booming Frenchmen arriving all night (most hannoying), we get taxi to airport at 8 a.m. Goodbye Hanoi.
So we catch the 11:00 a.m. plane from Hanoi back to Ho Chi Minh on our way to pick up all our dirty washing, left at our hotel in HCMC nearly 3 weeks ago. We are on our way to Cambodia, so have booked our bus to Phnom Penh tomorrow.
When we arrive in HCMC (Saigon) we take a taxi to our hotel. Strange, coming back to the place after 3 weeks, it's nothing like as intimidating as it appeared previously. The chaotic traffic, buzzing motorbikes and fume filled atsmophere are, well, normal. Even our hotel seems better than before ( or mayber that's in contrast to our time at The Joyless in Hanoi). It's still very hot down here though, lucky it's their 'cool dry' season.
We book a plane from Phnom Penh to HCMC for next Sunday (11th Feb) and then we're going to fly straight out to Singapore. This should hopefully eliminate the need for us getting a multi-entry visa to Vietnam (we only got single entry), as we'll be in transit and not have to go through Vietnam customs again. I've checked with 3 different sources to make sure we can do this (i.e. get our luggage checked all the way through to Singapore from PP) - although all answers heve been in the affirmative, I'm not 100% convinced. If you don't see us in the next couple of months, we're languishing in a Vietnam jail - please contact British Embassy and bring us home.
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