Ho Chi Minh City

An unscheduled day in Ho Chi Minh City thanks to a layover in Vietnam on our very reasonably priced flight from Mumbai to Tokyo.

We had each had no more than 2 hours sleep when we arrived but we soldiered through, starting the day with breakfast at Phở Hòa Pasteur, then settling into a very lovely coffee shop for a few hours to relax and do some planning for our upcoming cycle tour in Japan.

More noodles for lunch and then we spent a few hours wandering around HCMC with all of our bags, reminding ourselves of landmarks from previous visits and trying to join the dots, and enjoying the broad French style boulevards and the closest thing we've seen to low traffic neighbourhoods for some time.

Lots of sweating, tired feet, and being incredibly glad to be in a country where taxis come in a matter of seconds through Grab rather than the 45 minutes of chaos we became accustomed to in Goa.

Fermented shrimp paste at a surprisingly fun make-your-own-bún restaurant that we fell into and then back to the airport for our second red eye flight 🥱Read more