23.10. Explore Saigon

After the last two days filled with many activities, we took it easy today. After getting a good night's sleep and enjoying the complimentary breakfast, we simply walked around and explored Saigon, as we had spent the last few days outside the city.

I took the opportunity to send some of my stuff back home, because I don't need a second pair of long pants, sweatpants, a sweater, a gas burner, and the corresponding pot here. I mainly took the pot for Andra, as she suffers from celiac disease and was afraid she wouldn't find enough food here that she can eat. She definitely has a hard time and it's often quite frustrating for her to only eat fruits and raw rice, as you can't always trust the people here to understand you. Therefore, there is rarely any variety for her, but she is coping great. However, since we would rarely use the stove and my backpack was already heavy at 16 kilograms and bursting at the seams, we decided that we could do without the stove and hopefully it will soon make its way to Germany.

After walking around Saigon for a while, we visited the Vietnam War Museum. Although we can understand English quite well, we couldn't fully follow the museum, as it was quite disorganized and sometimes we were missing historical stations. Maybe we'll just watch a movie about it.

After the museum, we returned to the hostel as we wanted to catch our first night bus. Now we are on our way to Mui Ne and I am trying in vain to get some sleep, let's see if it still works...