12 Hour Bus Trip? No Worries

So, Uncle Trung and I had to get a BUS back to Saigon from Phu Phong - the flight there took 1 hour, but the bus took 12 hours. The conditions on the bus weren't too bad. But as you can see in the pic, once the seats were full, they then sold aisle seats! People were sitting in makeshift deck chairs and we all had to climb over them - at night, they laid out mats and slept in the aisles! Vietnamese music videos blared for the majority of the trip and there was only 2 toilet breaks - good times.

At one of the rest stops, we bumped into the above people. The guy on the right is one of my Dad's close friends, who now lives in California. He was looking at me suspiciously, then identified who I was - cause he said I laughed just like my Mum! Was rather amusing and freaky. "Its a small world, after all". We tried to swap buses, so we could spend the rest of the journey with some people we know - but the bus driver wasn't having any of it - even after my Uncle Trung tried to bribe them. Oh well.