Day 13
Bangkok - Ho Chi Minh - Vung Tau
A slap-up breakfast at the Silom Sofitel was followed by a traffic free (!) drive to Don Muang. Immigration formalities were swift and painless at the eerily empty airport and we were at the aircraft half an hour earlier than planned. There was a ten minute delay on our taxi clearance, but once we got airborne the routing was as planned. The weather did not present any problems and at 7500ft we managed to avoid getting shot down over the Thai / Cambodian border.
As an aside, our overflight permission from Cambodia proved difficult to get. It seems that their fax machine is unable to send International messages so the long promised clearance fax never arrived. Luckily, a friend in the Cambodian CAA was able to send me the number by sms text message last night. Our hopes of an extra night in Bangkok were dashed!
Arrival into Ho Chi Minh was easy and smiling faces waited. We cleared immigration and customs and then positioned the aircraft to its home base in Vung Tau where more smiling faces and lots of cans of 333 beer were a very welcome sight. The view of Front Beach from the Palace Hotel is as lovely as ever.
Still can't upload photos..watch this space!
Last edited by he1iaviator; 16th October 2008 at 02:32.