Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The past 2 days have been spent in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh city. Some highlights include:

- seeing and crawling through the Cu Chi tunnels, really brought history 12 to life.
- the war remants museum
- going for dinner both nights with Holly's contacts here, really cool people in their mid-20's, (Nga, Long, Phu, Anh) great local perspective on things
- getting driven around the bustling city on the back of a petite vietnamese girl's motorbike

Siagon is visibly more communist than Hanoi, it was interesting to see Vietnamese flags everywhere and banners saying roughly; work hard, be proud of your country etc. In other news, i've been doing alot of reading. read A Brief History of Time last week by Stephen Hawking, and just finished The Damage Done by Warren Fellows. its written by and about an australian who survived in a thai prison for drug trafficking. Wow, it is so disturbing and amazing. i've never read of so many and such atrocious conditions and torture that humans subject other humans to, but after 12 years and repeated suicide attempts he did finally get out and write a book and i recommend it. That is all for now.

Mo Hai Baht, YO!

Pics finally uploaded!