Greetings from Sunny Vietnam....
Lovely place too nice for words! Spent a whole five days there going up and down the place.....more traffic than Singapore but less congestion or should i say JAMS than... say Bangkok or Hong Kong(also less polluted too). Nothing can stop motorbikes from moving around.....neither one ways or red lites they can just keep moving and they do! Like soooo many aunts moving around each other and never getting anoyed with one another, at least thats the apearance from where I was standing??? who knows? So anyway getting around by taxi is not bad around $S5.00 for an average trip like from Holland V to DobyGaunt (8 or 10 kilometers)or something.


Personally I didn't care for the trip to Cu Chi tunnels.....just sooo much talk about the WAR(excelent link) and how they kicked our asses!!! "All we had was patriotism, which allowed us to suffer anything," said Col. Pham Tan Thanh
An extrodinary amount of US soldiers died, 2,637,100 people fought through the triumph and tragedy in the Vietnam War. Unfortunately 58,000 never returned home again. Some of the troops were named 'TUNNEL RATS'
from the 25th Infantry Division becos of their sole job was to enter the tunnels on search and destroy missions.

On the way back to Ho Chi Minh from Cu Chi we pass some cute little farms and small towns which always apeals to me to see how the people run there farms and all live in a small community like that. They grow lots of stuffs from fruit to corn to cashew nuts.

Only a 2hr+ trip from S'pore and I rate it one of the best places for the money and effort especially if u have a limited amount of time to spend on a short holiday. I wasn't able to look at properties and see what is selling and for how much on this trip but i will next time....got to go to Hanoi, READ THIS BLOG on my next trip and get me some tailor made clothes! Hoi An a town up north is known for having a tailor shop on every block of the town. Hoi An is a perfectly lovely little town, about twenty kilometers south of Danang, on the central coast of Vietnam.

Boy I came back to find that u all had plenty of rain?? Not bad, Vietnam will begin their rainy season soon...now its 35 cel. No mosquitos at anytime of the day or nite??? dun know, maybe becos no rain?