I’m back in Ho Chi Minh City and I love it!
I arrived from Hong Kong just now, 7pm local time, after breezing through the airport system. The first thing to hit is the muggy heat. The next thing to hit is the excitement and vibrancy of this great city that just lifts my spirits like Hong Kong couldn’t. I’m much more turned on by the functioning chaos of this city than the modern order and predictability of the mighty Hong Kong. I find a little garden bar and a tiger beer is already half drunk. Blogging on the iPhone is a bit rusty! A mother walks past with child in arms and she tries to get her young daughter to wave to me but she is more interested in some fish swimming around in a pond at my feet. So she should be. I’m next to some tennis courts in full swing. It has rained here and it feels like it could rain some more.
The day was fairly straight forward and lazy. I did little with my last moments in Hong Kong. I had hoped to explore more if Lantau because there is more to it than the maze of high-rise residential towers crammed within inches of each other. This is high density living at its most sophisticated. But there are plenty of hills separating these residential clusters and being a lover of hills I could have had some fun but I was stripped of any energy from my walk around Hong Kong city yesterday. I must learn to pace myself!
I’m staying in a non-touristy part of Ho Chi Minh city so I stand out a bit from the regular crowd. Even the taxi driver had trouble finding my hotel. I stayed at Hotel Linh Dan at the end of my last visit to this city about one year ago. Some of the surrounds are familiar. I should have packed my tennis racquet!
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