Thankful

When I was walking to the employee entrance I fell and broke my lips. The moment I fell, I used my tongue to touch my teeth, thankful that there was no broken tooth. Nothing really serious, just the lips kept bleeding and felt a little dizzy right after that, the nurse insisting me to lie down and go to see the doctor in his own clinic as the he wasn’t around in the company today..

Then, I went to the office, finished some important task before leaving and eventually went to see the doctor near my house. Now, I am on sick leave and have to drink with the help of the straw and I cant smile!

Lesson learnt, never try to look for anything in the hang bag while walking, watch ur steps!

Vietnam

Finally, we reached at the tân Son nhat international airport, there were a lot of ppl standing outside the airport and I saw a man holding a banner with my travel mate’s name, I gave him some signal that we were the persons that he was looking for, then he quickly grabbed my luggage and we followed him. To my surprise, he told us “please wait for me here, I will go to get the car” in CANTONESE. In the car, I tried to ask him more in Cantonese, but he just repeated saying in Cantonese “I don’t know.”
After approximately 20 minutes drive, we reached Chancery Saigon Hotel. We unpacked our baggage and headed to Ben Thanh Market, it is just about 20 minutes walking from the hotel. I would say this market is more to tourist kind of market, where they sell a lot of crafts, clothes and souvenirs, if you need to look for some local market, you should go to Binh Tay Market at Chinatown, price over there is quite reasonable, not many tourist goes there, and another great things besides from price is some of them can speak Cantonese pretty well, I am not going to elaborate all the destinations that I visited but generally it was really fun walking around, getting lost and finding the way back to the hotel. Moreover, language barrier was another thing that we struggled when we were lost as most of them couldn’t speak English and neither do we speak Vietnamese. I didn't even have a really details map, I only had a map that I got from the airport, and surprisingly with that map, I managed to go a lot places just by walking. I had to walk most of the time, so I ended up drenched with sweat when I reached each destination.
Conclusion, adventurous trip if u r looking for something different from ur daily life. Can say that it was an eye opening trip, you can see many ppl still live in poor condition and you might realized how you have taken so many things for granted. I traveled with another gal and managed to come back safely, we can do, u can do it too. We didn’t get mobbed by any beggar but we still had to alert with everyone at the street. Below are some of the pictures taken during the trip. Didn’t take much picture as I wasn’t in the mood in taking pictures as most of the time my clothes were soaked with my sweat! Hehe.

1st picture taken in the hotel room

The Reunification Palace

The Notre Dame Cathedral and I

Front View of Notre Dame Cathedral

Ben Thanh Market

Statue of Ho Chi Minh