Saigon - Phoget About It!

We manged to escape Cambodia via a 5 hour bus ride to Saigon, Vietnam.  It is a huge city, but it was much cleaner than Cambodia.  It also has more motor bikes than any city in the world (by my estimations).  After arriving, we immediately were on the hunt for some big dong.  Dong is the Vietnamese currency.  Once we wrapped our hands around some dongs, we were able to enjoy everything Saigon had to offer.

For our first lunch, we went to a pho restaurant that Bill Clinton went to when he visited the city.  The pho was pretty good and comparable to Than Bro's in Seattle.  We later found some other pho places that were better and cheaper.  Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton made a poor decision with his dong.

Later, we went to the war remnants museum.  It had a lot of badass American tanks, war planes, and artillery.  As the museum was very anti-American, we walked around with scowls on our faces.  Beginning on Friday, the Vietnamese will be celebrating the anniversary of the day that North Vietnam won the war.

Andy and Andrew went to a horse racing track the next day.  Thirty seconds before this race started, the horse in stall number one was upside down on its back inside the starting gate.  Both the guys successfully wagered 50,000 dong on the winning horse of this race and received a commie payout of 2,000 dong.

The highlight of our Saigon trip came while we got lost in a non-tourist section of the city.  While walking down the street, we came across an impromptu cock fight.  Needless to say, cocks and dongs were flying everywhere!