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Wednesday 14 December 2011

Saigon

After Hoi An, we headed further south to Nha Trang; I'd never heard of this city, but it turned out to be a bunch of fun. We went on South East Asia's longest cable car over to the amusement park on Vinpearl Island. It turned out to be an awesome place, complete with bumper cars, buck hunter, a 4D cinema, hot dogs, and a roller coaster (my first). The city also boasts a number of trendy beachside bars; we hit up the boat club (which is almost as wanky as it sounds) and found that they have a beach bonfire. Awesome.

With that done, we headed on to our final stop in Viet Nam, Saigon. Saigon is home to a very impressive war museum, as well as the Chu Chi tunnels. In these tiny tunnels, an entire village buried itself by day for the duration of the American-Viet Nam war. We went through some "westernised" (read: enlarged) tunnels, and I discovered claustrophobia.

Remarkably we were involved in no significant accidents, despite drunkenly supermanning on motorbikes, weaving through the worlds most dense fields of moving motorbikes, and cycling (/dinking) on pre-war pushies. Aside from the boat accident, we did see a tourist bus which had fallen off the side of a road and sunk in a rice field; the bus was identical to the one we were on at the time.

All in all, we had a great trip through Viet Nam. Now on to Cambodia!

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