2 Day in Saigon

.....................Well today as usual we had breakfast but this time we chose to eat beef noodle soup just by the side of Allez Boo cafe then we went to have our morning coffee at the cafe...
After breakfast we were pick up for our half day tour of the "CU CHI" tunnels..it was a long drive but our tour broke the journey at a small town where the tour leader took us to a factory for people suffering from the Defoliant Agent Orange that the american used to destroy the jungle for war fare..it was a really sad sight where we saw deformed people in a factory making lacquer wares..then it was another 40 mins drive to the tunnels It was good fun the tour leader was a funny guy ..he made jokes and we saw how the vietnamese guerrilla called "Viet cong" dug mile and miles of tunnels to hide in it when they were bombed from above by the Americans they had kitchen, hospital and bomb making shops all under the ground..we had a 20 mins break before we actually went into the dark and hot tunnels to feel how it was...and there was a shooting range there we can actual fire real live bullets from American M16 rifles or the famous Kalashnikov AK 47 the Russian made rifle..it was 10$ us for 10 bullets.. so I shared it with Lou...annway after the tour we had dinner in a nice Vietnamese restaurant called 'NAM GIAO" the food was really good...I am being chased to finish by the owner of this net cafe so I have to go....I will post the pictures tomorrow in danang.....

First day in Saigon

So we started our first day with a Breakfast at the Allez Boo cafe round the corner from our hotel,the cafe is rigt by a very busy inter section og Pham Ngu Lau which is a perfect pace to have bearkfast and watch as Saigon comes to live.After Breakfast we went to check out this bike shop that was advertising in the inter net that it will pack the bike up for plane travel we are very concern as to where we can buy a box for our bikes after we have discarded ours in Danang.

The shop was located in district 7 at a shopping area called the Sky Garden which we found out when we got there that this is a very up market area. we were told that it would cost us 100,000 dong for this packing service..the aussie dollar is 13,000 at the exchange rate ..which means its quite expansive, so we tried another shop which was located in the downtown area of district 1 near to where we were at a street called "Vo thi sau" this shop was much more promising as they quoted us 50,000 for box and packing so we quickly got their name card and that was our biggest worry out of the way.

we then took a leisure stroll back to our hotel but stopped at a few cafe to indulge in our favorite vietnamese coffe served with condense milk and unlimited vietnamese tea to cleanse your mouth after the sweet coffee. we continued our walk and we went to vist the Notre Dame the famouss French archtxture post office That night dinner was on a busy night market by the famous "CHO BEN THAN".we had steam crab with a tamarind sause,barbeque cockles,and a kind of sea snails with lemongrass and coconut milk ..it was so delicious but also quite costly as we later found out that this is a touristy area where only tourist comes...we should have realised when the owner of the shop spoke perfect canotnese..but anyway it only cost about 275 ,000 dongs

After dinner I went looking for a inter-net cafe to update my blog I found one but after doing 1 page they had to close so I walk to the corner of my hotel and had a night cap at the GO2 bar before heading off to bed......see u tomorrow guys....

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