Back to Saigon on the bus. It rained and rained and rained on the way back, thankfully we were in the bus. The roads were clogged with heavy traffic so the bus ride was longer than the scheduled 4 hours.
We walked around the nicer side of Saigon a bit. The shops here are definitely better than anything we saw in Hanoi and all the "standard" expensive shops are here.
I got a much needed haircut in Saigon. All I will say is that you get a lot more than a haircut for the price of a haircut! Washing my hair took a lot longer than cutting it did. I also got a shave which, in hindsight, wasn't such a great idea. It wasn't very good.
We finally got the plane home. Something I thought I would never say -> we had a really nice (and inexpensive) meal at the airport in Kuala Lumpur. Bonus!
Then a good flighyt back home with Air Asia. Melbourne Airport was a disaster, it was completely overrun with arrivals and couldn't cope with the volume of people. One brave soul did a really good job of organising a queue (for customs and immigration) that wound its way around the baggage carousels and along the walls, and making sure there was no queue jumping. He did a good job but why he had no help and why there were none of thos tapes to assist I wouldn't know. It still took us nearly 2 hours to get out, mind you.
And now we're home. The streets are quiet, they are easy to cross, and theren't hundreds of motor bikes everywhere.
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