Dreaded night bus turned out to be dreadful again. No toilet, tiny leg room (even for midgets like me), me and matt the only non-vietnamese on the bus so no one to talk to and no sleep. May have to reassess my plans about getting another 6 throughout my journey....
We arrived at the hostel we thought we wanted to stay in at 6am and it was closed so we moved on to the second choice. They only had $20 a night rooms but tired and desperate for the toilet we checked in. We were told the room wasn't available until 9 but managed to get in at 7:30. The room was fine, just what we wanted, apart from the fact it was on the 7th floor with no lift.
Absolutely exhausted we crashed until 12 before i insisted we do something with the day. We crawled out of bed, got lunch and headed out into the city. We helpfully answered a couple of questionaires from vietnamese university students about whether or not we had eaten ho-nog soup (aparently chicken and noodles) during our time in vietnam.
We eventually found our way to the war remnants museum which was pretty impressive and had changed significantly since the last time i visited. It was very harrowing especially the floor dedicated to prisoner torture and the effects of agent orange. Next we went to visit the palace but it was closed, so we took a couple of pictures from the outside and said we'd go back if we had time later this week. Obviously feeling the effect of the sun (or my dad has finally got to me) i suggested the botanical gardens, matt must have also been feeling the sun as he agreed. Half way through the walk it started chucking it down and thinking that trying to see the gardens in the pouring rain was a bad idea we got a taxi home. It's now 6:30 and we're waiting to have dinner and then see what the club scene is like in Vietnam's capital!
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