Thailand/Vietnam

Plane trip was pretty good, managed to consume a fair amount of free alcohol including Jack Daniels, all the beer on offer and cognac which was hilarious. Played Mario, watched about the first 10 minutes of about 5 movies but for some reason our row of seats was screwed and only 1 headphone worked so you couldnt really hear anything.

Arrived in Thailand really tired and still feeling the effects of our going away party, recieved a message from Dave that he was celebrating a full moon party. Jumped in a taxi at about 11pm Thailand time and met up with Dave. The taxi trip was fairly scary with a total lack of seatbelts and all the other cars driving 5 aside in a 3 lane highway. Hit a bar until about 3.30am and then did the standard thing of getting MacDonalds before crashing in Dave's hostel room which had 2 single beds.... fun times. The MacDonalds was about double the size for the drink and fries.

Plane to Ho Chi Minh city was easy, only took about 90 minutes. Although before the flight even left my tv screen broke so that pretty much sucked. The airport in Bangkok is outrageously huge. I didn't really realize when we arrived but leaving we walked for about 10 minutes once through customs to get to our departure lounge.

Got a taxi back to the airport to fly out to Vietnam the next day with about 4 hours sleep. As soon as we got out of the airport all we could hear was cars honking. It's non-stop. There are so many motorbikes and scooters on the roads it's crazy, we were inches away from hitting so many cars and scooters at least 20 times. I saw a whole family, dad mum and 2 toddlers on a scooter weaving in and out of traffic, and no one wears helmets. Got accommodation right in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City for US$6 a night each. We have air con and a tv. Had dinner in a restaurant 3 stories up and it cost under AUD$12 for all 3 of us including beer. I've been offered marijuana from randoms in the street so many times since we arrived (6 hours ago) I've already lost count.

Will try and add some photos to this tomorrow if possible. Also I recieved 2 msgs from Dave on my phone but no others. I can't receive or make calls or send messages and I don't think I can receive messages from overseas either. Will post my Vietnamese phone number when I get a sim card if anyone is interested.

Jamie