Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - CuChi Tunnel
Assemble at Changi Airport T1 @ 1050am for flight to Saigon. before that, had breakfast at the food court basement but i merely can stomach anything. Vomited most of the food out. Probably because i ate variety of food the night before. Farewell to friends and family that sent me off.

After lunch, proceeded to Cu Chi Tunnel Tour to Cu Chi tunnels– the underground village built by Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Visit the tunnels within 1.5 hours. We were drenched from the rain and the tunnel was so small that we had to crawl inside. In the tunnel, we had to go down, climbed up and everything. It wasn't just a smooth one.




Dinner. Specialty: beef soup in a coconut with fire circling around it. Cool, isn't it? Then check in to hotel and overnight in Saigon.
Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City / Viet-Sing Industrial Park - Factory Visits
Yakult Visit. They brief about the yakult processes and their benefits. I didn't really hear much though. It was quite a bore.



Had lunch at the hotel. We were sooo excited when we found out that the floor and the window were moving. =.- Haahaha. Most of our conversation was about that. After lunch, proceeded to the candy factory. We had to wear like this in order to be permitted. We looked totally dumb in this. Lyke totally. With the slipper on and everything.

Orientation tour around the city center area, features the highlights: Notre Dame Cathedral, General Post Office, City Hall and Opera House.

Dinner. We were impressed how creative they decorated the food. 1st picture: a penguin catching a big fish. 2nd picture: a chicken made up from pineapple. And because of this, the malay guys were having dirty thoughts. They made use of all this things to make it dirty, with the help of the waiter there. Totally hilarious.






Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City / Mekong Delta
Breakfast at hotel. Depart this morning by road for the Mekong Region, the area of agriculture products and fish, for boat cruise on Mekong River (4200km long) to the Thai Son Island. Enjoy all kinds of tropical fruit in this area. Then, walk through the handicraft village and also visit some of the local farmhouses. Continue our journey by sampan boat (rowing boat) alongside the small canals to the Trung Luong restaurant, where lunch will be provided (with local specialty-deep fried elephant-ear fish and sticky rice ball) I fell in love with the sticky rice ball. Super-niceeee! Im craving for one now. But too bad. I have to make all the way to Vietnam to eat those again :(



We're free at Ben Thanh Market for shopping for 2hours. A lot of things happened within that 2hours. The seller were so desperate that they keep on pulling our hands so that we would buy something from them. And one of them was really angry because we went to her shop so many times but didn't buy anything. Bargain and bargain, like hell. But it was fun. Bought myself a bag and wallet there(: Shopping for clothes in vietnam sucks. There isn't much there.

Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City - School Visit / Hanoi
Breakfast at hotel. Morning: visit and exchange with Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in Saigon After lunch, transfer to airport, board domestic flight to Hanoi. Upon arrival, transfer to Halong Bay. 3hr plusplus in the bus. Check-in Hotel at 11pm. Overnight in Halong Bay. The hotel was scary. Only me and aineyy was in the 2nd floor while the rest were in the 5th storey. It was too creepy that we transfer our luggage to Wawa's room and sleep there. The next morning, we heard people telling their experiences at night/ ghost stories. Day 5: Halong Bay / Hanoi
Four hours boat cruise on HaLong Bay to visit wonderful grottos. I swear, the scenery is damn beautiful! :D My legs were shaking from climbing up. Seafood lunch provided on boat. Manicure for 40,000 dong. Afternoon: travel back to Hanoi, visit the Old Quarter. Have shopping and dinner. Enjoy the special water puppet show. Overnight in Hanoi. Most of us did not sleep since it was our last day together. Wanted to order kfc that night because all of us were damn hungry. But their kfc delivery was already closed. :(



Day 6: Hanoi / Singapore
Transfer to the airport for flight back to Singapore.

Overall: A great experience. One week pampered with luxury foods and hotel. I will miss all the night activities with them. Talking while drinking gloria jeans coffee and eating cheesecakes late night. Watching ghost movies in the guys room. Watching them play the babi and maki game & having a laugh over their jokes. and most of all, the bonding due to 'something'. hehhehe. desperate times, desperate measures. only we know what that something is(: