From Phnom Penh we headed across the border into Vietnam, country number twenty eight since departure. The first port of call was Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City if you like). The four weeks in Cambodia was one of my longest single country stints thus far, and a tough act to follow, especially with my first impressions of Vietnam being traffic chaos and dodgy, misinformation peddling cab drivers. Having gone almost two months without eating McDonalds (possibly a record for me), I enquired of the cabbie whether or not they had Macca's in Saigon, to which he assured me in no uncertain terms that they did. He then ripped me off blind when I settled the cab fare - with 13,500 Vietnamese dong to one Aussie dollar, my brain isn't used to computing such large numbers
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