The energy is more invigorating than off putting and there's something to look at on every corner.
The roads are crazy busy in the day time and have character at night.
We ate at a beautiful little restaurant (which I've conveniently forgotten the name of) - they served the biggest portions we've had anywhere!
People line the streets and just sit down for a drink at night.
It's quite sad to see young boys shining shoes, breathing fire and putting live snakes up their nose and out of their mouth to beg for some money too.
On a more positive note though...the Vietnamese people are lovely..
We asked a man for directions to the War Remnants Museum. He couldn't speak any English but to establish that we were looking for the war museum, he did gun actions with his arms. Then he got some chalk out and drew a map for us on the pavement.
The history museum was pretty heavy stuff. We hadn't realised just how agressive the war had been until we saw all of the horrible pictures and torture equipment.
In the evening we just caught the end of the sunset at Chilli Sky Bar, which is on the 25th floor of a mega tall building.
We were told happy hour was pretty cheap. What we realised when we got to the top, is that the drinks were cheaper than their normal high price but certainly not cheap as far as our budget goes.
So, to the confusement of one of the eloquently dressed and very polite barmen, we just got some bar snacks and enjoyed the view.
I had beef skewers, there was only one small skewer but it was possibly one of the best skewers I've ever had in my life so it was well worth it (along with the view of course).
At midnight, we set off on another night bus to Sihounukville in Cambodia.
This one was pretty crazy. The seats are in twos next to each other, so you're screwed if you're next to a snoring stranger. The drivers of course gave all the locals the best seats too.
I actually managed to sleep a bit. But each time we stopped for a toilet break, we had to shout "STOP" until the drivers finally stopped down the road.. because they were driving off without someone every time.
We were told the journey would be around 12 hours in total. 20 hours later, we were finally there!
On the way we changed buses at Pnom Penh and soon discovered the weather was due to be torrentially stormy for three days.
Great!
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