the distance from singapore to vietnam's saigon (or ho chi min city) takes about 2 hours but since we flew in to hanoi 1st, it took us 4 hours. 4 hours in Vietnam Air means nothing more than sleeping, eating and talking. =( but good for us, my sister is a great conversation'er (got such word?!) she started talking to the gal next to us and blah blah blah it went. hanoi-halong bay is beautiful, the breeze brushing against our cheeks and the smooth sailing of the boat makes it quite an experience for me. but the meal on board was err... lets just say i am not a keen lover of they style of cooking there. (that may quite explain why people there are generally slim?! as for the short part i have no explaination for that. =P)1 interesting thing there i found out was...korean was everywhere!!! yes! instead of the common used foreign language used on sign-boards such in singapore and lots other countries where we use japanese, hanoi's sign-boards are inscripted with korean-hangul. i see lots of koreans there too. turn on the tv and there u have korean drama in vietnamnese language and korean kbs channel. huh? i wonder did i travel into a mini-korea? i wonder if it got anything to do with north korean is communist and hanoi is the capital of socialist?
after hanoi, we flew in to saigon (ho chi mi city) via domestic flight. my dear suitcase which is affectionly known as "pak-ka" lost it's wheel here. it had since been repaired by the airline rep. in singapore. anyway, saigon is really busy! like i said vietnam is like thailand...traffic is crazy!! only that vietnam's motorbike is king! there are so many of it that there is a lane on the road just for it! helmets are like accerssories sold on the streets and they are really pretty/funky. again... food is err... ok. people there like the taste to be really strong, either very sweet (fine w me) or very salty (too much for my liking) or very bland (huh? so different sia) then they also love sweet n sour stuff. to achieve the sweet n sour effect in their soup they have starfruit and pineapple thrown in to the soup, interesting huh? they seems to like spices alot too, lemongrass, pepper, basil leaves, mint, etc.now... the main attraction to all really BUSY singapore is the best BUYS (how interesting buys and busy has all the same alphabets! hahaha).... there are plenty of places to shop. but branded stuff are more expensive there, i suppose the tax is higher there? otherwise street buys are pretty decent in their workmanship and the prices are pretty much the same as thailand. however the security seems a lot better than thailand. there are beggers no doubt but i do feel its at least safer than malaysia. =(
so if u r interested in traveling to vietnam, can u forget about calling me along. but do have lots of fun cuz its a country where u can meet lots of other singaporeans! lol and also foreigners such as the Koreans, China-chinese, Malaysians, Taiwan-nese, Americans and French people. Most of the tourist there speaks good english as have fun communicating with them!
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