Petra had developed a bit of a head cold, I had some cramped muscles, Megs and Jules actually managed to sleep and it wasn't exactly a bright and chirpy bunch that left the plane.
We made our way through immigration, collected our bags and headed out into the warm humid night. The night was filled with massive neon signs in all directions. The boys quickly spotted their new desired TV, it is roughly the size of my house but with amazing resolution.
Our driver arrived and we piled into a minivan and headed off through the traffic. It was actually slightly less chaotic than I expected but there are phallanxes of motor scooters everywhere. We drove past a park which seemed to be a lovers lane of neatly spaced scooters each with a loving couple with their backs turned to the 6 lanes of traffic. We scooted under massed electric wires, around building sites. Just as we were feeling quite confident about the traffic, our mini bus ran up the back of a taxi.
Relax Mum - it was extremely low speed and was more exciting from the experience perspective than there was any likelihood of injury.
Finally we arrived at our hotel. It is really nice, very spacious, extremely clean and best of all has fantastic air conditioning.
Once checked in, even though it was after 10pm, we headed out for food. Less than a block away from our hotel is a night market. Full of the usual t-shirts, Louis Vuiton rip-offs, shoes, etc and food stalls. We picked one at random and had the most fantastic meal.
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| Beef Pho |
I had Pho, sort of the national dish of Vietnam. It is a broth with rice noodles, thinly sliced beef, fresh herbs and as much chilli (in multiple forms) as you wish to add. It was truly delicious. The others had a range of things including Oren enthusiastically trying frog which he really enjoyed.
Sated we got our bill, 600,000 dong, roughly $30 for the 8 of us which included drinks and beers.
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| Oren eats frog! |
It is now very late and has been a long day but Vietnam is proving brilliant already!!!
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