Kat and I bid farewell to Hoi An on the 29th of December. After sitting in the Danang Airport all day (thanks, Jetstar, for neglecting to send me an email or give me a phone call to let us know our flight was canceled), Kat and I returned to Ho Chi Minh City. It felt good to come "home" to the apartment and the familiar comforts of the big city for Kat's last few days in Vietnam.
We decided to be unapologetic tourists and take a cyclo tour of the city with Urban Adventures. It was $15 per person and we were the only two on the tour--it was great! I'm glad we did it--and we tipped the drivers well for their efforts (we are a bit heavier than most Vietnamese).
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| cheesy tourists! |
We also splurged and took a speedboat tour of the Mekong Delta. The tour itself was interesting and very comfortable--but a bit overpriced. We stopped at a temple, a market, and a village--which, having been in Vietnam for a while, we've seen our fair share already of all three. We did manage to make some nice friends along the way...
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| the mighty Mekong |
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| new friends |
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| zippin' along sippin' on coconuts |
To round out our trip together in Vietnam we visited a few more museums and pagodas in Ho Chi Minh City (they start to blend together after 3 weeks of travel)...
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| Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum |
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"But of course darling--I don't think they'd mind if we borrowed this for a spin..." (At the Ho Chi Minh City Museum)  The Pagoda that goes by many names: Emperor Jade Pagoda or Tortoise Pagoda (Chua Ngoc Hoang or Phuoc Hai Tu). |
There is a shrine to the goddess of fertility at the pagoda that people pray to. Obviously the parents of these two little twin boys were coming here to pay respect.
And that wrapped up Kat's final week in Vietnam. We took a taxi to the airport at 3:30 am and she boarded her plane to begin her 30+ hour trip back home. All in all, we had a grand tour of Vietnam and we're happy to have done it together, Lewis sister style.
Click here for more photos of our time in Ho Chi Minh City
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