so while in Vietnam it's been like this, First day in Saigon i got a bical taxi and hit the war rements musium, a cathredral and a chinese tempal, then early the next moring headed to phan thaip to meet Kimberly and her family, after a few days down ther i came back to Saigon and have kept busy, doing tours the last 2 days, dush bagish but a good way to see alot, on a tour you can see in one day the stuff it would take to see in about 4 or 5 with out all the hassle, but also with out all the chram that that hasle brings.
well, today was about just tracking out on my own and doing stuff, and taking care of stuff.
i was out walking around for about 10 hours or so, started by picking up my ticket back to bkk, i was sad to dump that much money 200!!! but need to meet somone whos flying into BKK soon, so unluckly don't have the time to head up through nam through laos, ect ect.
next i got a map got lost and then figured out my way, hit the big market, which as people fucking rave about it, wasn't that specal, but i guess most people haven't wandered the markest of kashkar so maybe i'm just jaded.
i picked up some presents for my buddie/(past) roommate/domestic partner Dave tryed to bargen on some ouyther stuff, but had to walk away becasue i couldn't get it to a price i wanted..
lol, side noat, it's funny, i've bought about 5x as much crap this trip on my last trip out to this side of the earth.. odd.
anyways, after that i walked for ever till i hit the reunifacation palace, got to look at all the photos of Vietnams gloryis defeat of the US invaders, step by step. (there a whole shit load of that here!)
i wandered around the palace for hours, which was intresting, never anything i'd plan to do, but it was cool.
ooh heres some photos from my phone (which as a camra is about 10x as conveniont as my stupid ass expencive camra...
not sure if this will work but i'll try.
a coool tank.. wel fuck all tanks are cool but this one still has ins machine guns, fule tanks and tracks!
thisn is one of the tanks that smashed through the gates when the palace was retaken.
and in the basment was lots of cool old stuff like this...
oh and this!!!
sweet!
after that it was a few miles to the post office to mail some post cards.. which was crazy enough in it's self, shit ons of tourest taking pictures of the post office, tour groups, there was a gift shop.. not sure what that was all about..
ooh and here you dopr the mail a big goopy bowl on pecker snot looking paste!! so weird!
and of cource coming out i was ataced by a relenless moto driver, and a girl that damanede that i buy staps from her... they both fowleed me for about 5 min auntill i wandered out into traffic..
about that..
ok, in china you just ran you ass off thoug traffic, in thailand you stay out of it, and take the ped bridegs that are everywhere. but in cambodia and vietnam, you walk very slowly, as they wizz around you at every side.. it's disturbing, i try to not even look becasue if you flinch and stop you'll mess up someones timing and thell plow into you!
i got a masage and a ear clean.. sounded so weird i had to try, it was weaird and a bit painfull, i'm not sure if i even want to try to exlane what it felt like!
but the whole experince was intresting and fun, the girls were super nice, and kept patting my head and pinching my cheaks, and one threatend to hit me becasue i didn't want a drink.. that the same one who insisted she feel me gum, and when walking on my back sliped off and instintvly i reached out to stop her fall and touched her butt, she made a very unhappy noise about that..
then after a long march (and a few wrong turns i got back to my guest house, across the street got a t shirt that i'm really going to be happy i bought or will really regret.. also a pair of sandles made from tracter tires, they are really cool and i've wanted a pir since i saw some old ones in cambodia at the land mine musium, i had a chance to buty some atuntic ones at the vc tunnles but they had ones that were huge, and tiny....
the ones i got are the right size and a bit better desined, but not as athentic. the real ones are just tire side wall as a soul, intertube as straps, the ones i got are a bit fancyer.. but a shirt and some shoes for 5 bucks i can't complane.
ow i'm gonna go out and get somethine for moosie that i saw yeasterday, and think she'll eally like.. but of cource i have shit taste when it comes to getting stuff for outher people.
bla!
p.s. i ate chicken featusius yesterday. there half developed bones were a bit crunchy....
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