Arrive Ho Chi Minh city

After 26 hours of flying/ sitting around airports we arrived here in Ho Chi minh City yesterday lunch time. we were very surprised and delghted to be up graded to a preffered guest suite, two bathrooms, sitting room, dressing room and huge bedroom. Even the TV in the bedroom at 40" is bigger than we have at home. Still we deserve it we keep telling ourselves, but 5 telephones and no one to call!!

Thia aftenoons activites inculed a walking tour of Ho Chi Minh where there are still some nice buildings from the French Colonial Days, but mainly the rest are without much character. The shopping is amazing, Cheap and averything you can imagine is available.
This was also a time to size up our travelling companions, and for a tour which demands moderate fitness we wonder how some will manage.

After finishing the walking tour at the central markets we made our way back to the hotel by Cyclo. Now this was 5:00 so a fairly heavy dose of traffic was now flowing and to the Vietnamise Cyclo is their form of adventure tourism so the denser and faster the traffic that you are weaving in and out of the better your ride is supposed to be. We made it back to the Sherraton in one piece.



Tomorrow we are off to Cu Chi and the famous Viet Cong tunnels, now that will sort out a few hip replacements I would think.