Exploring Saigon

We've now been in Saigon for 2 days. The traffic is insane here. The streets are packed with buses, taxis, more mopeds than one could ever imagine and cyclos (old men pedaling people around on carts attached to bicycles). Crossing the street is very scary!! You literally just walk out in the middle of the insanity and hope that everyone drives around you. Luckily, we love the Intrepid group that we met up with here. They seem like great people with whom to explore the country. Highlights: Taking a relaxing cyclo tour around the city and seeing some of the sights. Visiting the zoo - where we were AMAZED to see one man pet a large lion through its cage (what was he thinking???) and a young girl pooing in the middle of a nicely landscaped lawn area. BIZARRE. I love the crazy markets as well. I picked up a great Louis Vuitton (knock-off) wristlet for $7 and I love it. We also visited the underground tunnels that the Vietnamese lived in/fought the Americans from during the Vietnam war. Mom would have hated it because they are TINY (designed so that American soldiers would be too big to follow them down).Dana fired a AK-47 at the shooting range there. It was so loud! Today we're heading to Hoi An.k