Day 3&4: HCM City

On day 3, granny and flew domestic to HCM city and then we spent the rest of the day shopping so there isn't much pics to show for it. We bought heaps of stuff, I should've took a pic of all the stuff we got, but I forgot. Granny got new clothes and we got t-shirts for her grandchildren, me included. We got bags for my mom and aunty, coffee, sea-cucumber, coconut candy and stuff.

On day 4, we went on a HCM city tour. I've always loved the smell of coffee, but it makes me sick. I try to encourage granny to drink coffee all the time so that I can just hang out at the coffee shops and breathe in the smells. The tour started with some temple and pagoda thingies, which granny and I sat out in the mini-bus. After that we went to Reunification Palace, which is just a building with heaps of rooms. It is sorta like the white house of Ho Chi Minh or something.

What you should do when there's a fire and one of the meeting rooms. Rooftop view from the Reunification Palace with a cyclo tour leaving. I think the elephant feet are real, so are the antler thingies. They are like some tribute thingies to Ho Chi Minh from the minority tribes in Vietnam. If you're wondering what are those beard looking thingies, they are actually the tails of the animals.

I reckon the car I shot outside Notre Dame Cathedral (right) wins Ho Chi Minh's Merccedes (left). Notre Dame is filled with stain glass and pews. After Notre Dame, we went to the War Museum, formally known as the War Crimes Museum. The atefacts are not that impressive and is a waste of time other than the photos on display, which are mostly pretty morbid.

For dinner, granny and I went to this place that's kinda like satay club, except they offer ze-char variety kinda food. One of the dish we ordered is kinda weird, with leafy greens, rice-paper skin, vermicelli, cucumber and stuff, when all I wanted was sugar cane prawn.