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Weather report: 39˚C, sunny. Night 22˚C.

With dogs barking, at least one cock shouting and the morning traffic woke me before the alarm clock. That’s why I was able to capture this incredible morning mood. Up to now we’ve never had a blue hour, neither in the mornings nor in the evenings. It’s always kind of foggy.

At about eight o’clock we left our hotel and were kind of glad to let it behind us. It’s not just because it wasn’t clean (we know, we are spoiled in Switzerland), but the room was always full of smoke from the street and the quarter behind the hotel. We skipped the coffee and hit the road in direction of Buon Ma Thuot.

Weather report: 39˚C, mostly sunny

Today we started our day early with a chilled coffee and some pho (a Vietnamese noodle soup). We wanted to reach Bao Loc in time to see something from the city and to visit the silk and tee productions around. Quoc, our host from the Spirit Garden Lodge, suggested to take a back road. So we did. After a few minutes we had to pass a narrow bridge and from this moment on, we met a completely different Vietnam. Almost no traffic but many farms, cattle, corn fields and tee plantations.

Today we tried to get familiar with the vietnamese taffic. But let me start at the beginning… After a rich breakfast - we tasted a “pho” (soup with beef and rice noodles) we’ve been ready to start our trip. Almost ready. Let’s say I didn’t want to separate from the bathroom. About half an hour later we definitely startet. We packed our motorbikes and drove back to the motorcycle rental station, since we forgot to buy the rain ponchos. It’s supposedly really hard to get ponchos for european people which are taller than 1.6m.

After ten months waiting to get the trip startet - yesterday was the day we dropped our luggage and started from Zürich to Bankok. Without any delay we changed plane in Bankok and finally arrived in Ho Chi Minh City. Even our luggage found its way to Vietnam.

The cab to our hotel, a british colonial style hotel, was quiet quick and cost us only VND 220'000 (about 9.50 CHF) for 20mins of driving. To round up our day we went for a little walk through HCN - also known as Saigon - to find a nice place to get some streetfood.