We arrived at our first stop in Asia, Ho Chi Minh City, at about midnight after 27 hours of traveling. Often, an airport can be the worst part of any trip: touts pestering you, looming pickpockets, and unofficial taxis ready to take you to be sold into servitude in Azerbaijan. Instead, Saigon airport was quiet, we were picked up by our hotel, and we taken toan amazingly comfortable hotel getting a free upgrade. The next morning we had a private buffet that included both sushi and rabbit sausage. We were on top of the world.
Later that day, we arrived in Singapore. Most people believe Singapore is a "nicer" city than HCMC, but it was little different for us. It is very clean, but our hotel room was terrible. The room was taller than it was wide or long, was a windowless bright blue, and there was no top sheet. And, the sheet had a creepy Winnie the Pooh design. The bathroom would have made the prop man from Trainspotting proud. So far we haven't developed jaundice or anything like that.
