Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Keep me where the light is

Hello everyone! Yay I'm back from Vietnam! It was such an awesome trip! Rather short though, only 4 days. A short and cheap getaway with Ben, Jeth and Kok Yong. All in, we spent less than S$300 each, including the airfare! The food there was dirt cheap, and super yummy too! Really grateful to Ben's dad, who let us put up at his huge apartment, and getting his driver to send us all over hunting for nice food and to sightsee!
Ho Chin Minh City is so different from Singapore! The streets are swarmed with motorcycles, and traffic rules there don't seem to exist. Lol imagine a major cross junction with no traffic signals. Yes it was that bad. Really really scary to drive there.
I must say it was a really enjoyabe trip, with 3 great buddies. It was a good get-together again, after 5 months, with me in Melbourne and Ben in Perth.

And oh! I'm so nice right, so I bought coffee beans for mum! But guess what, turns out they are pangsai coffee beans! Yes, pangsai! The lady at the market let me smell all the different variety of beans, and these weasel beans stood out because they were much stronger and more fragrant. And more expensive too. So I decided to get them for mum. Lol but guess what, they are actually from this animal called the civet cat, who eats the coffee beans and then excretes them cos they can't be digested. It's apparently supposed to make the coffee beans more fragrant. LOL. So I don't think mum's gonna be using those beans.

Anyway here are some photos! Ben was so free and uploaded ALL the photos I took onto his Facebook. I'm just gonna upload a few.
The best pho in HCM city!

LOL

Super yummy Vietnamese coffee! Costs 8000VND, about S$0.70.

Where I bought the pangsai coffee

Yummy! :p

Us crawling through the Cuchi tunnels, where the guerillas lived during the Vietnam War


More photos in my next post!

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