C&J's Travels: Bangkok & Saigon Day 3 Candice

After our night out we both wake up feeling a bit worse for wear so decide to take it easy before our flight to Ho Chi Minh City.
One last everything you could wish for breakfast and one last dip in the pool and we are off.
Our flight was with Air Asia which is like easyjet. The flight was ok although Jeremy did not enjoy it as we had to fly through some clouds which meant turbulence. At one point we even had some lightning- not great for someone that doesn't like flying... Luckily we don't have to fly anywhere for the next 2 weeks as it will be trains from here on out :)

Arriving in Saigon we had to get visas on landing.I had already arranged a letter through an agency here to get us our visas but they process this at the airport. Funny thing is we had to fill out some forms and apparently needed photos too, but after handing in our passports and then filling in the forms we got the passports back with the visas - no forms handed in and no photos taken...Not sure what happened there but oh well not complaining.

First we had to draw some money, which should be easy enough. But when you get 33 000 vietnamese dong for every pound, choosing how much to draw becomes a bit more interesting. Somehow drawing 2million of any currency just seems wrong!

Outside the terminal building you have someone coming up to you every 2mins offering their taxi. We knew from experience to always get a metered taxi so we stuck to our guns and made our way to the taxi stand. One guy was so persistant that he followed us all the way to the taxi stand insisting he was the taxi supervisor and that we should come with him. Once we insisted that we want a metered taxi he left us alone. It was quite a welcome to HCMC.

Driving in to our hotel was quite an experience. The first thing you hear is the blaring of hooters, you feel the heat blasting your face through the open window of the taxi and all you see is bikes. Scooters of all shapes and sizes whizzing past the taxi. There doesn't seem to be any rules of the road except don't get run over. It's like a antheap has exploded open. So unbelievable and exciting.

After checking in to our hotel Duc Vuong we went out to explore and get something to eat. We are staying just off the main backpacker street so there are a fair few western restaurants blaring music and selling cheap drinks.
I couldn't wait so we went into the first bar we could see and got some beer and stir fry beef for me to eat. The food was suprisingly really good especially as it only cost about 3 quid.

Jeremy didn't want to eat yet so after I was done we went for a walk around to soak in the atmosphere. Eventually getting hungry we decide to stop for Jeremy to eat. We found the cutest place which seems like it was someone's house you were eating in. We sat upstairs on a balcony which only had 2 tables. Jeremy asked the girl if he could just have some stirfried beef with noodles (which wasn't really on the menu) but they happily made for him. It was delicious and made me wish I had waited.

After all that we were exhausted so went straight to bed.
Today we are off to see war museum and the reunification palace.