Thinking that we were only gonna spend a few days in Vietnam, we've now stayed for over a week and, thanks to the dumbass in the Thai embassy, still have a few days to go. One of the days a lovely man volunteered to show us around the city just of the goodness of his heart. Needless to say we were touched and accepted the friendly offer. After an hour of power walking through the streets of Saigon we decided that enough was enough but the only way to get rid of our ¨voulenteer¨  was to pay him...I guess we should have seen it coming but we did feel a bit cheated. So we gave him a few thousand (around a euro) and headed off a little wiser than before. 

Our friendly ¨guide¨.

City Hall

Notre Dame

After a long break with a lot of water and coffee we headed for the War Remnants museum, or as it used to be called, The museum of American and Chinese War Crimes. It was full of Vietnamese style propaganda and had disfigured and disabled people, due to agent orange, on display in the lobby playing music to collect money. A bit too much for our fragile, European hearts but well worth a visit.

The streets, paths and anywhere you can think of are filled with motorbikes. They'll drive anywhere they want and at anytime. Red light, one way street, pedestrians, they don't care!It's like everyone in the city is out driving their bike around all day. Crossing the street is mad and the only way to do is to jump in and hope for the best. The clip here is from one of our first days and we have since encountered roads worse than this.