As you would all know, our first day started at around 4 o'clock-ish in the morning. We were dropped to the airport, where after many embarrassing hugs and photos with parents, we departed for Melbourne. Upon arriving, we went through check in again, where we found out that instead of flying direct to Hanoi, we would first be passing through Ho Chi Minh City. Mrs Manning forgot to mention this slight detail in all of our meetings. After our 8 hour flight, which was basically movies, lots of Tertis and badly done Space Invaders, we landed to find that our next plane was late. This, coupled with Hamish's lost-in-transition baggage and Jamie's motion sickness, made for an annoying and tiring time.
We got there in the end, and took a 30 minute bus ride to our hotel (the Superhotel, what an original name), where we all died of exhaustion before falling asleep. We were told to get up at 6:45 in the morning to have breakfast.
Day 2
We started off the day with an early start of 6:45 and then went up to breakfast at 7. We had a range of things to eat for breakfast such as traditional Vietnamese (noodles, dragon fruit, omelettes) and western food. We went back to our hotel rooms and got our bags ready for a trip to the mausoleum at 8. Why all through that ho chi minhs body wasn't going to be fully on display and everything was very strict. Mrs manning thought she wasn't going to get told of for something this year but she unfortunately did.
We then went to the lake house and then the temple of literature where we saw statues and lots of people praying to the kings so that they might have better luck of going to university.
We were all pretty hungry by lunchtime so we went into a nice restaurant and had some pho.
The rest of the day was pretty fun but walking around the old quarter in the rain wasn't the best.
Catherine, Emma, Aaron K and I (Katie) were walking down one of the streets of the markets when we had free time and 2 ladies came up to us with 2shoulder baskets and put them on our shoulders without our permission. Instinctively we took photos of each other with the baskets and as we started to walk off they grabbed our arms and handed us 2 bags of pineapple that didn't look very appealing. We tried to say no and tried to walk away but they kept following us and trying to make us feel guilty and in the end we had to buy them but we just ditched them in one of the other streets. Btw Hamish's bag turned up in adelaide and is being sent here.
Aaron and Katie
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