On our way to Vietnam

We are at the Narita airport waiting to board our plane to Vietnam. We found duty free shops and also many expensive shops in the are called "Narita's 5th avenue." It has this wonderful and free Yahoo internet cafe, where I am writing one of my few contributions to the blog. Japan has been good, all the Japanese people that we have met have been really nice and courteous, including a couple who we met on our walk to Kiyomizu-dera Temple who gave Jessica a fan. Moving on to Vietnam, both Jessica and I will miss the safe and clean water of Japan, we might not be able to have shaved ice again until we return to the US. Sure Jessica stocked up on Ciprofloxacin but we wouldn't want to chance it. Jessica already read up on the history of Vietnam and has a few places and things that she would like to do. I think that we'll bee seeing less temples and shrines in Vietnam, hopefully the beauty of Vietnam will outshine its problems as a developing country.


Here is a prelimary itinery that we have
7/18 arrive in vietnam - we will stay at my grandfather's house, my cousin will pick us up at the airport
7/19 We'll be in Ho Chi Minh City
7/20 - 7/22
We'll fly to Ho Chi Minh City --> Hanoi (stay at hotel, go to Ha Long's bay and then explore on our own or go on local tours), Jessica read about water puppets show, which I didn't know existed in Vietnam. We will go see that in Ha Noi.
7/23 - 7/24 Ha Noi --> Nha Trang (this is a beach resort town), we'll stay at one of the resort there.
7/25 - Nha Trang --> Ho Chi Minh City (we'll stay at a hotel in the center of the city)
7/26 - Ho Chi Minh City
7/27- fly back to the US 23:35