Crazy has 2 wheels

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.