Ho Chi Min

Rushed to Ho Chi Min to meet up with Joanna drinks were had,

A lot of miniature people on mopeds with only a few traffic lights made traffic "interesting"

Like passing through a swarm of bees,

very big bees.

Went for a wander with Foyser and ended up playing a game like foot badminton with a group of transvestite prostitutes.

Then met a group of Asian Santa's who got us in the Christmas spirit,

Classic Foyser work.

Capitalism has sunk its dirty polished nails into this communist country, victory through advertising,

Former head of french power sits at the head of main street,

Former Russian Market now selling nothing Russian, all electronics from China and the like, its tacky with all those lights which is sort of Russian I suppose,

Its telling that they have a better window display that Brown Thomas,

Ho,Ho,Ho Santa impression scared the locals,

Pretty lights attacted the foreigners

Inside revealed cheap knocck offs which cleverly avoided copyright infringement.

Outside our Hotel found a taxi driver asleep in his car in what would appear to be an uncomfortable position, but we found him like this every night.

Propaganda gets me excited.

Went to "Constitution Palace" where the Communists broke down the gates with tanks and ended the American backed government.

They kept changing president in the last few months, not wanting to be left holding the bag, with the last one being in power just three days, that has to suck.

Super sign beside the lifts, I'll take the stairs. Apparently made by Italians, same country that made the showers that electrocuted me in South America,

A the presidents office, where everythhing was made from lacquer, I like.

Tour guide took a sly photo of us.

The president was big on tennis apparently, maybe a few more books on military tactics would have helped.

Cailín rocking the presidential dance floor.

They even saved the tank that broke down the gates.

Walking down the road walked into a huge celebration headed by the Communist party, and what were they celebrating you ask, Vietnam had lost a football match, LOST!

They couldn't have been happier,

From Ho Chi Min

Went for a pint of the worlds cheapest draft beer, it has no preservatives so it has to be drank the day its made, it cost about 20cent per pint.

Went to a museum about the war with America, some really horrible stories, if even ten percent were true than the Americans broke the Geneva convention many many times, using illegal weapons like napalm and nail bombs,

This chart shows that compared to the second world war the Vietnam war lasted 17 years instead of 6 and dropped 14million tons of bombs instead of 5million.