Chúc mùng nam mói

Is Vietnamese and means happy new year. That is something that we heard many times in Vietnam and I even think that we are able to pronounce it correctly =).

So from Cambodia we went by bus to Vietnam. This time it was easy to cross the border as we also saw a lot of people who just lifted the fence and passed through. We arrived to Ho Chi Minh city late in the evening and looked for a place to stay. The next day (friday) we went to the reunification palace and war remnants museum. It was intresting. In the evening we went out to celebrate the new year with our new friend from France who we meet on the way. We had a lot of fun and we also saw the fireworks. We would have wanted to continue up by bus or train, but due to new year everything was sold out. So were stuck in Ho Chi Minh city for four days.

On Monday we flew to Hanoi. I was really happy since my family came to meet us at the airport. From Hanoi we went straight to Haiphong where the relatives of my sister-in-law live. We were there for two nights and went to the beach and also to Halong bay. It was beautiful in Halong, but the wheather was not the best possible so our pictures do not look so good. After this we went with Piritta to Hanoi on our own. The next day my family also arrived there so we were able to spend more time with them. When we had to say goodbye we went to an Italian icecream cafeteria. It was funny that while we were enjoying our icecreams the background song was Andrea Boccelli Time to say goodbye =)

From Hanoi we flew to Bangkok with Piritta for the weekend and my family went south to Ho Chi Minh city by bus. Now I have been over a month back in Australia working, but I will tell you more about that and future plans soon.
See ya.