The end of the trail

So we arrived in HCM on Tuesday eveing and spent the next two days there. So after we dismounted the bikes for more or less the last time we both took long ass showers and got every single bit of dirt out of us and trust me after being on the roads over here the diet just gets everywhere. We also done a laundry of all our clothes that we worn on te bike just to get them looking like clothes again. Then it was dinner time and we hot so much food just as a celebratory dinner I suppose that we actually made it all the way here in one piece. So on Wednesday then we started seeing the sights of Saigon, or what the communists call HCM. So we walked around the city all day starting off at Ben Thanh Market which was crazy. The aisles were so small and narrow and there was just people appearing from every which way. We went then to the art museum and then the Ho
Cho Minh City museum which was really cool to see. Then we just wandered around finding the notre dame cathedral and the central post office and stuff like that. That evening there was a massive thunder storm and could hardly walk anywhere but made it down the street to a nice Vietnamese place that did amazing chicken and pineapple but i was only given a spoon and fork and politely refused to eat until our lovely waitress retrived some chopsticks for me. And it wasn't only me, Alv actually couldn't use the fork and spoon so she needed the sticks to eat. I think she likes the chopsticks and is really good at using them now for all the strange foods that she's actually eying which is really good too. Yesterday we went on a half day tour to the legendry Cu Chi tunnels just outside Saigon. Our tour guide told us that he was south vietnamese and said that the communists was really wrong and that they still consider themselves different from the north. He also said that nowhere is written down about the south before the war and it's all about the VC being an amzing army an that the tunnel network was a great achievement for them in the attempt to reunify the country. The tunnels were awesome. Both if us went down into them and they are so so small and tight but we got through them ok. The only dodge thing is te heat down there coz there is no fresh air really so. So we both got the distinct feeling that south Vietnam wanted to be south Vietnam and not part of the whole. The fact that everybody up north calls Saigon, Ho Chi Minh an everybody down south calls it Saigon shows how the south wants to be their own republic. The tour was well worth the $5 anyway. Then last nite we went for a pizza buffet to fill us up. All you can eat for €4. So great is that? Then it was off to pack as we had a really early flight to Phu Quoc island to catch. This is our last stop in Vietnam before we go into Cambodia in 3 days time.