Arrived in beautiful Phu Quoc Island today, ready for some quiet beach time. Our second day in Saigon was spent on a very exhausting tour to the Cao Dai temple, a wild 3.5 hr. drive outside of town, fighting thousands of motorbikes along the way (there are 6 million of them in this city. We were lucky to observe an actual ceremony in this beautiful temple, where there are many religions allowed, from buddhism, chrisianity etc.
Then we went off to the Cu Chi tunnels, who were used by the Vietcong during the Vietnam war. It was all pretty unnerving and their was some implied political propaganda, which made us feel a bit uncomfortable. Anyway the whole trip took11 hrs. and we were glad to get back and out of this crazy traffic.
Today then we took a short flight to Phu Quoc island, the biggest island of the western coast of Vietnam and the seashore it's quite beautiful. We have a neat little bungalow right on the beach and it feels so good to relax a bit and enjoy the laid back atmosphere. The food has been great so far, lots of delicious Pho (noodle soups), as well as good cheap seafood. The weather has been rather warm and a bit humid, usually in the upper 80"s but no rain.
The people here are very friendly and accommodating, but the language is another story. There is not one word I understand, but we get by. People try and speak English, but they are still hard to understand.
Hopefully I can download some pictures here tomorrow.