Indochina(Vietnam) - Post No 5: Saigon

23 November 2010

We have one day free and easy in Saigon before we make our way to Dalat the next day, so that night we went to check out the clubs. It's Monday night, but you'd be amazed how full it was. Guess so many people don't have to work the next day.

The weird thing about the clubbing scene here is the security. They have no sense of personal space whatsoever, then again it pretty much describes the whole country as well, anyways back to the clubbing, when you walk in the first thing they'll do is to shepard you to a table, and in this is where the touching starts. They'll place their palm on your back or shoulder as they do this, even when you are already moving along. Now if you're not used to this trust me it gets pretty annoying. At the table, though you're standing you're supposed to be close to it, if you stray a couple of inches away they'll actually push you back to the table. Same goes if you're dancing, i saw a dude who was prancing about had a security standing literally 2 inches behind him waiting for the moment that a speck of dead skin even dares to go outside the territory for him to push the fella back.

The music was also too loud that people are actually typing on their phones and showing it to people in order to communicate. Let's just say I didnt last long there. Anyways, not in this country to go clubbing

I managed to check out 2 places in Saigon in the little time that we had, which is Ben Thanh Market and the War Remnants Museum. I could hear a number of times that people spoke Malay at the market, guess quite a number of Malaysian go there to shop. They also like to sit on these short stools. You actually see them everywhere, definitely a different experience.

Them hobbit stools

As for the war museum, it's a sombre eye opener into what the human being is capable of, and I thought it was weird that i saw this lady who was taking her not more than 10yr old son to look at pictures of dead bodies and reading the stories behind it, then again she could have a story that needed to be told.

Knife sharpening services

Huge prop plane

They mean business

There's more quirks of the people here, but there's plenty of time for that. Tomorrow we are riding to Dalat leaving at 5.30am in order to avoid the morning traffic.

See what i mean about the stools

Also let's not forget about the pretty faces.