Nha Trang to NZ

100 HBCB (hours before coming back)

The night after tour 2 we accidentaly broke a hotel footrest. Dad broke the footrest by putting one on a normal chair and sitting on it (the reason we wanted to do this is because you had to stand up to use the computers and when I do some of my long-winded post,s sitting down is quite necessary. The leg was buckled thanks to his gargantuan weight!. The manager tried to sue us 20 U.S dollars! when the seat's insides were: plastic wood and cardboard! Dad reckoned he would pay 5 U.S dollars at the most to get that foot-rest fixed. It was hardly our fault because sometimes they brought out a big stool that actually enabled me to sit down and blog to my heart's content but for some reason they decided not to have the stools out all the time and they wouldn't give them to you even when you asked.
In the end $10 bucks did it( "and don't come back")

The day after we took a night bus out of Nha Trang and into HCM city(Saigon) ,the big bad capital.

   

HCM city tour

The  day after we arrived on a sleeper bus we went on a 2-day, homestay tour down the mekong river. Our first stop was to try honey tea. Our tour guide said that honey tea made you live longer... or was that royal jelly? Apparently the Mekong is a prime place for bees, but because I don't like honey, I didn't like honey tea much. 

Next we got on to a tiny boat that was in risk of tipping over because of all the weight(Yip, that's you mum and dad). We took a trip through some giant overgrown palm fronds with the huge risk of rain ever-present with the dark skies overhead.

We had booked a homestay that was on the river (literally it was held up by Styrofoam blocks) and with it, lot's of mosquitoes. We woke up in the morning with no dengue or malaria so I was feeling was lucky. After a short boat ride (we had to do this on the way there as well) back to the rest of our tour we went to see "the floating market at 8. Here are some pictures,the things on the end of the pole show you what is being sold.

 Another day at the office!!!

All this waiting around is making me sleepy.

 How many bricks can YOU carry.

 Living life on the edge (of the river)

 BRICKED IN

Little girl asking if she can use the I-pad (the response: make one out of melons and see if you can scrounge a charger out of the water)

Oh yeah... I didn't order that did I?

The final city/countdown

We flew into Singapore the next day we only had 2 nights here before we had to go home, to NZ

We had a cheap hotel because it was in the RED zone of Singapore that meant there were a lot of seedy characters hanging around the street corners (I am trying to put this into non-offensive words). 

The second day there we went to an island called Sentosa where we went to Universal studios,which cost a lot of dough but when we got in we found it was worth it! We spent all day in Universal studios and had lot's of fun. The downside was that we qued for 2 hours for one ride! (they had a system: if you wanted to go as a group you had to take the long line BUT if you wanted to go by yourself with some other people you could in the super fast line OR you could pay a metric ton of money to upgrade your pass to a premium pass where you could go as a group really fast). We hadn't figured this out yet.!!!

At the end of the day, we had a great day at Universal Studios Singapore

 Creepy eh?!

Universal studios, we're far, far FAR away!

Home bound

2 days later we were at the airport with a  10 hour night plane to Auckland ahead of us. On the back of the seats in front of us had a screen with very little things you didn't have to pay(Of course mum was to stingy to buy the movie upgrade) for so I went to the free section and watched the very little shows that were available there was only a snow boarding/ surfing/ skateboarding show and a fishing show.

I wrote this page from home  (we took a 1 hour flight from Auckland to Napier) as soon as we got home because I have been unable to access any internet from Singapore on.

Please do not fret this is not my last post because I left out a huge section of my blog so that I could catch up with current affairs!

-a ground-struck child