HCMC
Here I am in Ho Chi Minh city!
At the airport, the only obvious ATM was bork, so I resorted to taking Japanese money to an airport exchange booth who gave me a presumably poor rate for some Vietnamese money. This had led to weird currency thoughts (for example, than this internet salon costs less than one Yen per minute...)
From an initial quote of 10USD for a taxi to the backpacker area, it went down to 6USD and finally I got one who had a meter and was prepared to use it with a final cost of 70000 VND... rather less, even though I suspect the route was more than usually circuitous.
In hotel 'Le Trung' which is quite tall and has no passenger lift (though there is a big electric hook that descends and rises through the centre cavity of the stairwell bringing with it heavy packages). Nice other than that.
Roman-based script here, for the first time since Sweden. Nice to be able to read the signs everywhere even if I don't know what most of them mean.
At the airport, the only obvious ATM was bork, so I resorted to taking Japanese money to an airport exchange booth who gave me a presumably poor rate for some Vietnamese money. This had led to weird currency thoughts (for example, than this internet salon costs less than one Yen per minute...)
From an initial quote of 10USD for a taxi to the backpacker area, it went down to 6USD and finally I got one who had a meter and was prepared to use it with a final cost of 70000 VND... rather less, even though I suspect the route was more than usually circuitous.
In hotel 'Le Trung' which is quite tall and has no passenger lift (though there is a big electric hook that descends and rises through the centre cavity of the stairwell bringing with it heavy packages). Nice other than that.
Roman-based script here, for the first time since Sweden. Nice to be able to read the signs everywhere even if I don't know what most of them mean.
posted by Ben Clifford at 09:08 GMT
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