Today marks the first day of my trek around the world. I landed in Ho Chi Minh city (still called Saigon to all the locals) late last night and was kindly picked up from the airport by Kevin Meyer.
Saigon is a city that is owned by motorbikes, it seems that everyone here drives one. If you can imagine thousands of motorbikes, some cars and buses and very few rules of the road you can get a sense of the chaos of the streets here. Crossing the street is a major undertaking as no body seems to stop, ever. All you can do is slowly move across the road and hope that all of the vehicles miss you.
This morning I visited the War Remnants Museum which goes through the Vietnam war of the 60's. The most interesting and gruesome part of the museum was all of the information covering the chemical weapons that the Americans used. The amount of damage that these chemicals caused on both the environment and the people was devastating. Entire forests were destroyed and the number of people living with diseases or birth defects caused by the chemicals is massive. The majority of the museum was photographs with descriptions but it was a very eyeopening experience about the harsh reality of the war.
More updates with some photos will follow later as I experience more of this amazing city and the surrounding country.
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