Saturday, December 30, 2006
28 December, 2006
We woke up at 5am, getting earlier every day. We left Cambodia and had to cross the borders again. I was panicking because I had to make sure that they never stamped on a blank page in my passport- only 3 blanks left. It all went well but the bus journey was quite long and we reached Ho Chi Minh City 7 hours later at about 13h00. We found a cheap but clean guesthouse and we were off to shop AGAIN. We ran around the whole afternoon shopping and it wasn’t pleasant but we did buy nice stuff- and cheap. The Vietnamese people are fun to bargain with and it can actually be quite a laugh. They joke a lot and we joke back and eventually we all agree on a price that everyone is happy with. We had dinner sitting outside, the weather was gorgeous and we had to fetch our ‘box’ from our previous 5 star hotel. We were so glad that we were not staying there this time around; we prefer the backpacker places by far!
We woke up at 5am, getting earlier every day. We left Cambodia and had to cross the borders again. I was panicking because I had to make sure that they never stamped on a blank page in my passport- only 3 blanks left. It all went well but the bus journey was quite long and we reached Ho Chi Minh City 7 hours later at about 13h00. We found a cheap but clean guesthouse and we were off to shop AGAIN. We ran around the whole afternoon shopping and it wasn’t pleasant but we did buy nice stuff- and cheap. The Vietnamese people are fun to bargain with and it can actually be quite a laugh. They joke a lot and we joke back and eventually we all agree on a price that everyone is happy with. We had dinner sitting outside, the weather was gorgeous and we had to fetch our ‘box’ from our previous 5 star hotel. We were so glad that we were not staying there this time around; we prefer the backpacker places by far!
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 1:34 AM 
