Have traded the horn-a-rama of Saigon for the crashing of the South China sea. It's much like the south china sea in Malaysia, tho a bit deeper, more quickly (same scary undertow tho) and the landscape around here is not quite as lush.. Still I'm relieved to report that Vietnam looks like Vietnam (but really Malaysia looked more like Vietnam). Rows and rows of palms swaying against a huge blue sky and wide, white sand beaches, turquoise water. You get the idea... My resort is a bit cheesy, as is the resort town and I've now resolved not to teach any more "tourism is evil" classes, lest I become even more of a hypocrite. I am proud to say that despite teh guidebook's advice to hagglehagglehaggle, I am NOT (yes, I know, it really goes against
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