After a bit of shopping in the big indoor market, where we were grabbed and beckoned and pestered, Neal, Louise and I met the others to go to the War Remnant Muesum. An interesting place, but truly harrowing, sad and often sickening. Having been to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Muesums, I was saddened by them and left unable to comprehend the terror and pain of such an experience. But the Vietnam War Muesum was worse. It showed aspects of both Vietnamese and other nations in and affected by the war . But it wasn' the photos that were the worst (and they were definitely not nice), but war prison model that you could walk around. All I could imagine as I read about the conditions people had to suffer, was how you'd rather die than live in such a place. Anyway, harrowing and terrible, but something that had to be experienced while in HCM, and we were all in need of a beer after!

After dinner that night, we decided to go to Apocalypse Now, a nightclub that well-known in the backpacker world (actually I don't know that, I only knew cos the girls read about it in the Lonely Planet!). So off we trekked, and after having a drink at another bar where Gerard became 'the Lord of the Rings' and won a T-shirt, and Neal was given a token-loser T-shirt, we headed off. Apocalypse Now was just like any other nightclub, with really expensive drinks! After a drink and a bit of a boogie, us girls rejoined the boys as they people watched! In particular, 3 Vietnamese chicks who were getting hit on left, right, and centre by dodgy gaijin! Very amusing, and slightly cringe-worthy to watch as guys who needed to get a clue tried their luck..!