Sunday, February 6

Saigon + Mui Ne --> Shanghai HOME! 12 Days are up

Back in busy Saigon although the traffic doesn't seem chaotic at all now when we gotten used to drive in it ourselves...Because we done most of the sightseeing in Saigon already I thought it would be a good idea to go to Mui Ne and check out the beaches etc. The bus ride to Mui Ne was just a few dollars and took a little over 3 hours. The problem with this whole thing was that when I arrived there no buses were going back to Saigon...So I'm there sort of stranded with a flight to Shanghai the next day but no means of transport to get me to Saigon. After asking around for about 1 hour I got a taxi to take me about 400 km for around 70 Euro. The trip became a little more expensive than I thought but you never know when travelling...

At least they had hammocks on the way to stop by for a coffee

But wouldn't you want to have breakfast in a place like this at 28 degrees? I'd say the taxi ride was worth it...

Got my first red pocket in Vietnam! (They give these in China and Vietnam for the Lunar Calendar new-year, money inside) this time the amount was about $0.50 :P


After coming back from Mui Ne we went to the War Memorial Museum...Horrible things to see. The Americans had so much advanced weapons and used so many uncool things in the war like napalm, phosphor bombs and millions of litres of toxic chemicals poisoning the nature and people. Not only did it poison the people but it gave horrible disinformation to infants and over 3 million people were affected by it.

The agent orange literally MELTS down the jungle. This used to be a full scale jungle on the picture

They had many walls full pictures like these where these people parents have been exposed to Agent Orange and other chemicals used in the war...I can imagine that most people who came out of this museum DON'T have much love for the U.S any more.
Different models of rocket launchers
And a few hundreds of these...

Flamethrower tank
Big ass tank, the damage radios of the bullets were 530 meters
They even had a Finnish news paper on display at the museum
"Vietnam Week, demonstrations against U.S in Vietnam, U.S out of Indochina!"
Our plane leaves at 1.55 from Saigon so it's going to be a long night. Will arrive in Shanghai at 5.55 but luckily I still have 2 days off to fix a lot of things for the flat and other things before the job officially begins 9.2

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