Just a quick update for now. Hope you enjoyed my last post -- you might be interested to know that the burns on my leg are healing quite nicely and it looks like they might not even scar.
After a week on the island of Phu Quoc we took a ferry mainland Vietnam and spent about five days in the Mekong Delta, first in the city of Can Tho and then the smaller village of Ben Tre. While in the Delta we took a few different boat tours which proved to be a combination of entirely ridiculous and a little bit entertaining. Yesterday we arrived in what is formally known as Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) though most people here still refer to it as Saigon. I feel like I have now been to quite a few of Asia's big cities (okay, maybe not thattt many, but, Kathmandu, Phnom Penh, Delhi, Calcutta should count for something) and never before have I seen anything like Saigon. The traffic here is absolutely unbelievable. It remains unclear to me how so many motorbikes can ride on the same road without hitting each other. We have spent the last two days visiting the big city market, the Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum. There is certainly lots to see here.
The loose plan is to spend the next month working our way north in Vietnam. On January 3rd we are planning on beginning a month long volunteer program teaching English in the little mountain village of Sapa. It will be exciting to escape the heat and humidity for a bit.
Anyway, stay tuned for a more exciting update soon. Love.
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