Saigon, 12/10/11-12/12/11

Once again we're running behind in our posts.  I still blame the keyboard.

Here's what happened since the last post:

From Mui Ne we took a bus to Ho Chi Minh city (also known as Saigon.)  The city did not impress us much to be honest.  Traffic and noise was comparable to that of Hanoi, only the streets were wider, and slightly easier to navigate.

We browsed the city, but did not see anything trully remarkable, thus the luck of pictures.  There are a lot of signs like this one, so I took a couple of these pictures (sorry, parents)

And since I'd already mentioned that Vietnamese failed to impress me with their Pho, I had to take a picture of the following sign as well:

So I'm not just looking forward to the "regular" european food back home, but also to Asian food in its American interpretation.

We spent a couple of days in Saigon, our last destination in Vietnam, and left for Phnom Penh, Cambodia. From there we went to Siem Reap to visit the Angkor Wat, and from there we (unexpectedly) went back to Koh Phangan, Thailand.  As it turned out, planning the final leg of our journey was going to take more than a few hours we'd allocated to it, so while we are doing it we decided to spend the New Years with our friends at Zhaba bar.  It just seemed like a simple, and a pleasant thing to do.

We are going to write another post on Cambodia, and share some pictures from there in a little while, hopefully before you wake up :)