So thankfully our border crossing went without a hitch, for the first time. Helped partly by the fact we already had our vísa for Vietnam - a strange process. In Sihanoukville we sorted it out through our hostel, it was cheaper than anywhere else in South East Asia, we filled out our forms and within twenty minutes the guy from our hostel was back with our pasports and the proper vísa - a level of efficiency not otherwise encountered so far! Considering what a ballache visas are back home this really was pretty impressive!
In Vietnam the currency is Dong - the pound currently fetches 33,293.70 of these (we withdrew a cool three and a half million today). Once more we are confused.
First impressions of Vietnam are great. Ho Chi Minh City is a bustling metropolis with lots of character, and the people (despite reports to the contrary) are great. My only gripe so far is the fact that this keyboard keeps replacing strings of letters with letters with accents (sê?) - this blog is hard work, and the fact that facebook is blocked (which it will be in China also). The traffic ís crazy to an extent not previously witnessed - my mum would freak if she saw me walk into the middle of the road in the manner I have over the past couple of days. Back home, stopping, looking, listening and waiting for a suitable gap in trafic might make you king of the road - out here it would mean we were still in Bangkok struggling to depart from our hotel. At some point I will post a video that hopefully captures this madness.
I have high hopes for Vietnam!
Have some Mike Sheridan! I'm still in awe of the fact he wrote his album, I Syv Sind, when he was 17. Eagerly awaiting some more stuff from him.
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