We're Vietnam! Forest, Nathan Golshan and I said goodbye to Wesley in Christchurch and made it to Ho Chi Minh City after an epic and somewhat tiring series of flights-we went from Christchurch to Sydney, hung out at the airport for an hour, then flew to Bangkok and spent our 12-hour layover making good use of their free internet and comfortable chairs. Unfortunately for us, our layover wasat a bad time for going out to the city, so we tried to catch up on sleep and emails instead. Then it was a short hop to Ho Chi Minh City and we were standing outside the airport, looking for our ride to the hostel!
Getting to the hostel involved driving through swarms of people on honda scooters who seem to have a grand disregard for both traffic laws and their own lives- like Stanford cyclists, but motorized. Being picked up by the hostel turned out to be a good call, because it's located down an alley and could easily be missed. Nevertheless, it looks like a good place to stay-and its location in the heart of the backpacker district makes it easy for us to just walk out and find food.
Today we're pretty wiped, so we has an early dinner and wen back inside to hide from the rain. Tomorrow we'll set out to explore the city with the rest of the tramping team-NHS and Ian Darr will arrive here shortly.
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