Feb 14, 2007 14:06
Happy valentines day to all the gorgeous people in my life! I love you all so dearly, even more so because you are all so far away.
Our tour ended this morning and I was a bit sad to say goodbye to all the glorious friends I have made over the past 11 days. Two wonderful girls around the same age as me from Melbourne I will be catching up and going clubbing when we all get back, which should be really good. My room mate for the tour Ritika who is from Sydney said she is going to be in Melbourne during her mid uni holidays so we are going to catch up then and if not at the end of the year she will be moving to South America so I will defiantly visit her there if no one wants to travel to Europe with me. The group was really an amazing bunch, if I was a little tentative in my initial responses to them they have all grown on me so much.
Yesterday we went to the Cu Chi tunnels 60km out of Saigon and I actually crawled through them which was amazing. The whole experience really blew me away. How brave the Viet Cong were to live there in such cramped & hot conditions, I must say it was a very scary experience crawling through those caves.
To add to the humbling experience of the Cu Chi tunnels this morning I went to the War Remnants museum was was literally holding back tears. It was very emotional so see the horrible torture and ruthless killing the American soldiers inflicted on the Vietnamese. I am aware that the museum was very bias but the photos and captions of what happened made me sick to my stomach.
Today I have also done some hard core shopping prior to leaving for Thailand in 3 hours time. I have gotten some great gifts for people so I am really happy. Mainly I have been loading up for my sister (gotta love her) but when I see something that someone would love I HAVE to buy it =P. I am not buying things for the sake of buyin them though which a lot of people in my tour seemed to be doing.
I best be going and starting to make my way towards the hotel to get my bags and go to the airport.
Sorry I have been a horrid LJ friend. I have been reading everyone's journals but there is little time to comment. I will get back into it once I am home.