01-09-2017

Early in the morning, we took the sleeper bus again to Ho Chi Minh City where we arrived in the late afternoon. After going to the piercing studio to get my sixth and seventh piercing into my ears, we have a nice dinner to start off the next days in Ho Chi Minh City, the capital of Vietnam, which is still often referred to as "Saigon". The name of the capital was changed not a long time ago to venerate Vietnam's first president Ho Chi Minh after Vietnam's independance. 


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