When we arrived in Vietnam after the eight hour flight it was absolutely pouring down with rain. For some stupid reason it didn't click that it was the monsoon season. So we got pretty much soaked, bargained our way to a cheap taxi ride to our hotel and went to get some dinner. There's this food called pho which is rice noodle soup- very basic but really, really good. Anyway, it's everywhere here. The people seem to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The next day we checked out some of the main sights in Ho Chi Mihn- the War Memorial Museum which was really sad, devestating, depressing almost, Reunification Palace- where the President lives and a whole heap of historical stuff happened, Notre Dame Cathedral and Diamond Plaza. We wandered around the streets and
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