Our trip from Nha Trang back to Saigon was supposed to be an easy voyage. We had even sprung the extra $20 to fly instead of taking a 6 hour bus. Easy was not in the cards...
1. We were told that the bus stop to go to the airport was at 86 Tran Phu. What no one told us was that there were 4 blocks all of which had the same addres....86 Tran Phu. 4 blocks with the exact same address!!!!!!!!
2. Our flight was delayed...a lot.
3. As we are beginning our decent to land in Saigon the Captain comes over the intercom and tells us that we are going to be circling for about 30 minutes because tehre is a storm in Saigon. Thinking this is just another one of their rains (it is the rainy season afterall) we didnt think much of it. No no, this was not just any type of rain, this was a MONSOON. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY rains.
4. We get a taxi at the airport to take us to our hostel. But the roads were so flooded that the taxi could barely go. When we did finally get to our hostel we got out of the taxi to get our bags only to find ourselves standing in a foot of water. The streets of Saigon were completely flooded!
Needless to say, we did get to our planned Friday evening activities (which included Chabad :( ). Instead, we attempted to dry off our shoes....
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What shoes were you wearing? Not any of the custom-made ones, I hope!
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