Back from Vietnam (Day Two)

Day 3:
We started Day 3 with a long long ride in the tour vehicle all the way southwest to the Mekong Delta. Our destination was My Tho, which was changed from Vinh Long that has Cai Be floating market. To me this part of the trip isn't that exciting though there are many interesting things. To me, this is just like more of malaysia, ship, plantations, but nonetheless relaxing and works well in terms of bonding.

There we saw how coconut candies are made. I bought some, you can try some if you like. It is nicer in the sense that you can taste the full flavour of the real ingredients.

After the trip to the delta, we drove by their chinatown and visited a temple which my friend had a little issue with due to religious reasons. The temple is very chinese in setting, there are even many signage in chinese writtings.

After that was dinner, and the guys went for a full body massage for only SGD20! I didn't really liked that place, the massage girls were dressed in low-cut V necked tight-fitting shirts and very short skirts. The room was dim with red lights. Yes, really sleazy, like" hello? are we in geylang or some red light district?"

Thus I was again disappointed by the lack of shopping, at least window shopping to satisfy my eyes' curiousity. :(

Day 2:
Day 2 started smoothly with breakfast at the hotel's restaurant. The food was quite tasty and had Singapore style fried noodles (actually somewhat like fried beehoon) as one of the buffet dish.

After breakfast, we embarked on a journey to CU CHI (yeah, gucci) to see the tunnels dug by the vietnamese to use during the war. On our way there, we had an episode of a motorcycle scratching our Hiace travel van and some negotiation process. Finally we reached CU CHI. We had a try to walk in the tunnel which is narrow, low pitch dark and musty in smell. After that my thighs felt so tired. Thanks to Dear who later gave me massages to soothe the aches using my mopiko (yes the tube says " for muscle fatigue"). The tunnels had most facilities, there were bunking areas, dining area, kitchen with special secret chimneys, and even a hospital area to treat the wounded. We also saw some demostration of the gruesome trapdoors that had spikes to kill the intruders.

Lunch was at a restaurant that serves many tourist. Again more overdose of succulent seafood.

After CU CHI was the city tour, Khoa had some personal urgent matters to attend and we had his colleague Vu to take us to the city tour. We went to the Notre Dame Cathedral, General Post Office, War Remnant Museum (I hated this place because the gross pictures remind me of zombies in 28 Weeks Later which I had nightmare about. Ironically, that's the first movie Dear took me to).

After the tour we got back to the hotel, again shower and wait for dinner.

Dinner was at a upscale restaurant called Liberty that had live band. It is situated in the city centre which is like Orchard Road. After dinner, we walked back to our hotel slowly while strolling the shops. My friend decided to tailor make an Ao Dai. That took us quite a while, but we still made it in time for the night market beside Ben Thanh market. Disappointingly, I didn't get to spend a single cent. Haha.

When we got back to the hotel, my friend and her BF were too tired for clubbing, so we gave it a miss.