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43 notes Sep 16,
2010
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. April 2010.
1. Sharing a meal with our rickshaw drivers, who later tried to milk our [relatively] wealthy tourist teats. We paid the men each about $100 to bike us around Saigon for a couple of hours. We later discovered [from other tourists, hotel receptionists, pamphlets, etc] that we should have expected to only pay about $20 maximum each. We’d gotten a personal guided tour of the city anyway which was cool and ate at an awesome hole-in-the-wall joint for lunch where all the locals looked at us funny.
I learnt early on that if you are visiting a South East Asian country, and you are a female of South East Asian descent yourself and being accompanied by your very pasty, very Caucasian boyfriend, expect to have the local girls throw you awkward ‘You are a successful mail order bride!’ glances, and random sleazy old men approach you to ask “You must be from Thailand. How much for a night together?” [Yes, that happened. And no, I didn’t go home with him for $2/hour.]
2. A guillotine at the War Remnants Museum.
3. A tiger cage. War Remnants Museum. Used to abuse and torture Vietnamese prisoners. These things were about the size of a coffin, maybe slightly larger and constructed of barbed wire. Sometimes they’d have five prisoners locked up at a time, squatting uncomfortably, for who knows how long.
4. A monk at the Cao Dai temple.
5. Female Cao Dai members. They sung prayers and donged bells and chimes and stuff. Lolz, dong. I’m not even going to attempt to try to describe it eloquently. It was just kind of cool to be there to watch.
6. A meal before visiting Cu Chi Tunnels at a roadside eatery somewhere a couple of hours out of Saigon. The napkins for the tables were rolls of toilet paper.
7. Sitting on a tank in Cu Chi. Yes, I am a wearing a conical Oriental hat. And yes, I am wearing an awesomely daggy leather bumbag. I kind of like that it screams, “Yes, I am a tourist. I am probably carrying large sums of money. Pickpocket me now.” I mostly wear it to hide my gut.
I’m going to try to post photos from Cambodia and Mexico eventually.
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Hi. I'm Rhea. 27. Web Designer Type Nerd Person. Sydney. This is my place on the internet where I collect internet things. I enjoy boardgames, 3D Magic Eye Puzzles and, piggybacks. Things I like about me: an ability to laugh at myself, my mega memory and, my above average parallel parking skills. Things I like about other people: an ability to make me laugh, a broad knowledge of random trivia and, a willingness to perform full body massages. I like to collect: business cards, records and, chess victories.
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