as we're walking in the mayhem i may have taken a little bit of a wrong
turn didn't expect sending a letter to be so fun or stressful it is just
crazy it is our first day in ho chi minh city and we are very excited to just walk the streets
and explore we don't have much of a plan today but i've dotted a few things that might be cool to see
so we're just gonna kind of head in that direction yeah i literally have no idea where you're taking
us today i'm hoping for banh mi along the way have you ever scheduled sure we'll find some
it's like the one thing i wanted they're everywhere there ever
and i'm excited for coffee stops yes that'd be number one i reckon
first thing you notice about this city
is how insanely busy it is and there's some dogs with diapers
we're staying in this cool little alleyway type place which is very local but right
next to it is one of the main roads here in ho chi minh so there's constantly beeping
in mopeds and buses and it's just like i thought thailand and bangkok was chaotic but then coming
here it's just like a whole nother level it's insane crossing the road is a mission
it freaks me out every single time we try and just wait for a local to be crossing as
well and go with them because no one stops you just gotta go and hope for the best
crossing the road is a thousand times easier when there's a light and we're about to go green
stop number one on this trail is the reunification palace
oh is that it yeah where the president lived when the north and the south vietnam got together
so we were going to go into the palace jordan said that there's like some fighter tanks and old war
memorabilia in the gardens and it looks really pretty oh there was a coffee shop right nearby
where we could get coffees for 45 000
each i was like how do you say thank you in vietnamese and she was like come
on i was like oh thank you and i was like come on she and the guy behind her laughed at me
i think he respected that i'm trying i think
a really nice easy stop on the way that's in the middle of all the attractions that i was
kind of gearing us towards is this street it's called book street and it is just
lined with bookstores and little cafes i kind of wish we didn't get the last one so this is really
unique there's a shop that's like a bus that's been hollowed out to become a bookstore it's just
purely walking 24 7. no cars so it's a nice nice to get out of the honk honk haha yeah
to get away from the road and some local guy was pissing himself
he was so sweet he gave me the biggest smile and the biggest thumbs up though so i think
he was proud we must have looked very out of place also at the end of the street is
another attraction the notre dame cathedral no hunchbacks though different one to that one and
it seems to be under construction which is a bit of a pain in the bum but still looks cool
book street is really cool it's a bit upsetting that notre dame is covered doing all its
renovations we are apparently really really close to the number three thing to do in ho chi minh
post a letter i saw that on a blog and i was like why would you be posting a letter be the number
three thing like is there that little to do in ho chi minh that posting a letter but it's because
of the post office you posted from so we've just decided that we're going to buy a letter and we're
going to post something to my mom so we can go in and experience it check out this post office
i didn't expect sending a letter to be so fun or stressful finding a pen that worked was hard
it took us four tries to get a pen that worked but we got there
don't really know the history of this place but it looks awesome all the corrugated iron gates
and then they have these like telephone boxes i guess that kind of give me harry potter vibes
the arch ceiling the map that's been hand-painted the lights are so old-school and beautiful
it's really good i would definitely recommend coming here and posting a
letter because it didn't cost us that much and it was fun really cool office most of us
next up is a little bit of a walk away so we'll probably have to stop for coffee after that but
we are finding our way to a hopefully a bit of a viewpoint if not and or the water we'll see nice
so as we're walking in the mayhem every so often you come across an army of grab drivers and grab
is like the uber of southeast asia we think that it's always about lunch time so we think it's
the office workers just ordering that much food that it's like it might as well be a bike gang
we are i think almost at our destination i'm hungry all the roads was coming to an end
i may have taken a little bit of a wrong turn a little bit the opposite direction
it wasn't the opposite direction certainly was in the right direction
the gentleman behind us is
a statue because he was the leader of the army that repelled the mongols twice
now we're super hot from the extra long walk that we had and there's a coffee shop
and a banh mi shop right here so i think we're gonna stop for lunch yeah good idea
they didn't have any banh mi so we settled for chips and some iced coffee
just crossed a very busy road didn't film it because i was too scared
but now we are on the saigon riverside it is a lot more peaceful even though it's hectic just
over there unfortunately the heineken tasting thing has been closed for two years so we didn't
get to go up to the top of the sky deck but we're thinking we're gonna get a beer anyway because it
sounds really nice right now it has absolutely left me craving a cold beer in this heat
it is afternoon now we were gonna hit a water taxi just to see what that's like but there's
gonna be a lot of water in about a month which is gonna be really fun so i don't feel like we
need to go on a water taxi instead we're gonna cool off and finish our beers here
out like five hours and it's all been pretty much outside i think we've hit
all of the main attractions we've gone through i've had such a good day yeah it's been really
fun catch a grab back to the hotel and pick back up at dinner time i guess yeah
trying to find dinner
vietnam is crazy at night time i don't know why it seems so much more hectic
all of the horns it's going crazy but i think we've found a barney place it doesn't
look like there's anywhere to sit in so we're gonna grab it and then walk back to the hotel
not quite three dollars for these two pretty good it is just crazy
i do not want to get hit by a car or a motorbike made it oh you kill me
i found that the key is to speak your truth as you're crossing the road
and then they won't hit you if you tell them hey i don't want to get hit you don't get hit
so far flawless we've not been hit yet only damage that's done is when we're actually on the bike
I have a sweaty back i better have a sweaty back how's that right