Vietnam-Ho Chi Mihn City

Another flight delay on China East airline and we are in Vietnam.  In hand are phone numbers of two local guys we are supposed to call once we get settled. We were retrieved at the airport and taken to our hotel.  The room is very small, but the beds are super comfortable.  I hope all the beds in Vietnam are like this because those in Mexico were hard as a rock.  The best part about the hotel is that it is air conditioned as are most  places in the city and the best part about the air conditioning is that it is not kept super freezing as in the USA.  It is actually at a very comfortable level whereas you can remain in the store wearing whatever you were wearing outside and not get cold.

In the morning we went downstairs to try and figure out what to do.  Luckily, as soon as we appeared, we were told to wait and our guide, Ms. Yang was called to fetch us. She took us to her house where we had our first Vietnamese breakfast.  I had heard that Asians eat noodles for breakfast and sure enough our breakfast consisted of rice noodles topped with eggs over easy, and chopped nuts.  They also have a really tasty sweet chili sauce here called Cholimex.  Yum, yum!

After breakfast, Ms. Yang sent us out to get a cheap $10 cell phone and told us to relax the remainder of the day.  We found a nice place for lunch but I was surprised at the cost of $13 for two people.  I don´t really consider this to be a cheap price.