We did all we could on this day as we were unsure about spending another day in the city. We wandered the busy streets in the morning, making our way to one of the markets. It was full of everything and anything one could possibly need. As we walked down the tiny overloaded aisles, we were grabbed and pulled, everyone wanting us to buy from them. We had a quick look but continued on our way as neither of us had much room for extras. We walked back through a beautiful park and stopped for a delicious pizza lunch.
After getting back to our hotel and having a quick rest, we hired two motorbikes for the afternoon. One of the drivers was quite fluent in English, so we were very lucky. We had chosen three places of interest and they offered us five. It was a great afternoon with a good look into how the people of HCMC live. It's a crazy place, indeed.
We were both pretty tired after the tour. We had stumbled upon a few Indian restaurants earlier that morning. The food was delicious and unbelievably cheap. Over dinner, we had decided to make our way to Long Hai as we really wanted to be on the beach.
Knowing this was probably our last night in HCMC, we made our way to the Sheraton hotel as a friend of mine was playing in the cover band. The bar is on the 25th floor which made for a beautiful view of the city. On our way over, we took a taxi. We went 1km which cost $2US and the driver honked 53 times ... I mean imagine, 53 times?! And yes, I counted.
Mom and I were in stitches laughing the whole way ... as she was talking, I'd keep interrupting her with my counting ... fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen ... twenty-two, twenty-three ... twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine ... unbelievable!
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