Where do I even start. Sai Gon or Ho Chi Minh city is amazing. I truely wasnt traveling until now. I was hit in the face with a brand new culture and I am god smacked about how different it is here to anywhere I have been so far.
On the flight (it was night) over we flew over a thunder storm and it was one of the most astounding sights I have ever seen. Such beauty and sheer power I have never witnessed.A flash of lightning lit up about a miles worth of cloud like nothing I have ever dreamed of. A real natural treat.
When we arrived in Sai Gon we were greeted by about 300 people out the front of the airport. The taxi ride to the hostel I am staying in is better than any rollercoaster I have ever been on. There are motorbikes EVERYWHERE. I mean EVERYWHERE. Im begining to think that there are more motorbikes here than people.
The hostel I am staying in is in the heart of the backpacker district right next to an open market where you can buy fruit and the like. It is an amazing sight to behold and Ive seen fruit I never knew existed. ha
Yesterday and today Sophie and I walked around the city center where you are constantly asked "where are you going" by dodgy looking men on bikes, I take you, I take you". We went to some of temples and pagodas and that I cant even begin to decribe. The main market where you can buy a conterfit of ANYTHING is a mad hustel of trades and rip-offs (If you are coming here you have to learn to haggle.) The first day we went I was overwhelmed by the people in there grabbing at you "You buy, you buy".
The most amazing place (and extreamly depressing) is the War Remmenants Museum. Outside is a load of tanks and planes from the Vietnam war during the 60s and 70s but inside are horrible pictures and sad stories of the war as it was and the effect it had on Vietnam. War truely is hell. It is EXTREAMLY anti-America.
On a lighter note we are heading out into the country tomorrow to go to the floting markets. Please forgive me for not putting the names of the places down. I would be 2 hours+ if I tried to name everything Ive been to and Im going to. At the end of this 3 week trip I will write a large summary on my journey through this mase of a country. Im looking forward to seeing the real Vietnam outside of this 7million people city. Not much net around but I will try to update again soon.
I wish I was able to decribe properly how I feel about what Ive seen and heard but woords will not do it justice.
Redman out.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Leaving already?
So im back in perth. Broome just wasn't working out. I did a load of nice stuff but i couldn't find work. Then a friend of mine asked me did I want to go to Vietnam and I said why not. When will i get the opportunity to go to a place like that again. So Im flying out on the 20th and coming back on the 10th of August and I cant wait.
Not much else to report on guys sorry, just been keeping my head down and trying not to spend money. Vietnam is cheap as so I wont be spending too much there.
ADVENTURE!!!!
Not much else to report on guys sorry, just been keeping my head down and trying not to spend money. Vietnam is cheap as so I wont be spending too much there.
ADVENTURE!!!!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Plastic Beach
Broome, see the whales, get lost in the local outback and then get eaten by snakes(or the locals). Try our local expensive food, find an escort and ride a camel. Top it all off by getting stung by one of our many many jellyfish and being peed on.
Broome is built for tourists. Its beautiful but its all gift shops and expensive restaurants. You have to travel outside the town to see any real countryside and there is plenty of it. Rented a scooter (which i christened "the hog") for 2 days and going around broome was much easier and 40 times as fun. Went out sight seeing and happened across some fossilized dinosaur footprints, apparently the broome coast is full of them. Needless to say that awoke the nerd in me and now any time im near rocks at the beach I start looking for footprints.
I also caught the biggest fish I have ever caught. Its called a Cobia and it weighed in at 9.5 kilos which in irish fishermans weight is 20lbs 14oz. It took me over 20 minutes to land and it almost pulled me off the boat twice. Epically manly day!!
No luck so far with the job search. Ive handed in my CV EVERYWHERE and nothing. Iol give another week of solid searching for a job and I may move off. If you dont get a job here its too expensive to stay here.
Il have to look at my options again, I wanted farm work or something akin to that but there is just nothing here.
Me thinks its back to the drawing board.
Redman out.
Broome is built for tourists. Its beautiful but its all gift shops and expensive restaurants. You have to travel outside the town to see any real countryside and there is plenty of it. Rented a scooter (which i christened "the hog") for 2 days and going around broome was much easier and 40 times as fun. Went out sight seeing and happened across some fossilized dinosaur footprints, apparently the broome coast is full of them. Needless to say that awoke the nerd in me and now any time im near rocks at the beach I start looking for footprints.
I also caught the biggest fish I have ever caught. Its called a Cobia and it weighed in at 9.5 kilos which in irish fishermans weight is 20lbs 14oz. It took me over 20 minutes to land and it almost pulled me off the boat twice. Epically manly day!!
No luck so far with the job search. Ive handed in my CV EVERYWHERE and nothing. Iol give another week of solid searching for a job and I may move off. If you dont get a job here its too expensive to stay here.
Il have to look at my options again, I wanted farm work or something akin to that but there is just nothing here.
Me thinks its back to the drawing board.
Redman out.
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