first day at ho chin minh city

14 NOV 2008
today is the first day at ho chin minh city.

we reached ho chin minh airport at around 1 plus.. after that we went for sight seeing around ho chin minh city.
We visited the white house (the place where the president used to worked and live in), Notre Dame Cathedral, took a photo of the cityhall and the opera house.
After taking photos, we were given 45minutes to shop at a nearby shopping centre before having our dinner because it is still early.
Then, we had dinner at around 7. Our dinner was thai food. it was very delicious.
we were all very sweaty and tired as it had been a very long day and we had walked from one place to another.
After dinner, we finally get to check-in into our hotel : VICTORY HOTEL.
we very so exhausted at that point of time and quickly collected our keys and went up to the room to wash up.
We had to do reflections of the day after bathing.


I find it rather scary and difficult for us to cross the roads in vietnam as there is only a few traffic lights unlike in singapore. the motorist here drove their motorcycle in any directions at all time.
We had to be very careful and raise our hands up very high to show that we are crossing the roads (however, some motorist just don't care and bravely drove pass our group)
but lucky we had the help of our tour guide and the fellow policemen, we were all able to cross the roads safely. (Although me and rebecca almost got knocked down by a car)

I also realised that the income gap between the vietnamese is very wide because as our bus drove by, we can see buildings that are very old, rusty, full of moss growing on it and a few buildings nearby that are renovated and design in a very high-class manner.