Google and Saigon are not compatible.

After a fitful nights sleep/awakeness Ifinally got up and ready by 8. The receptionist was real nice and we had a little conversation about football. He definitely knew more.

I have to tell you the 80km ride was a bit of a bluri cannot remember how much traffic or how the roads were. But I rode into HCMC. Luckily my Komoot route took directly to the hotel.

I put the bike in the garage below, took off the bags. Tge room is adequate. And I was showered and ready to do HCMC by 12.30.

I had written to the hotel earlier requesting they find a bike box, but they had done very little. Except found a chain of bike shops called Ride Plus.

But i had researched another shop, i went out of the hotel and jumped on a motorbike taxi we hooned about the streets aiming for this bike shop (i had my eyes shut most of the time.) It was not that i discovered i did need mobile data (mine ran out yesterday) and that the place Google took us was not the bike shop. So i paid this driver off snd jumped on a other motorbike the driver spoke a little more English. He took me to a cardboard box making place i reiterated i wanted a bike shop. I think at this point he was just roaming tge streets hoping to find a shop…. and we did, a Giant bike shop. They had a box. I went back to the hotel on the motorbike taxi, paid him off (i think he conned me a bit). Jumped on my bike put in the Giant Bikes address and cycled there, unfortunately it wast there more Google maps/ Saigon problems. So i plugged in search bike shops into my garmin search snd it said 50 meters Ride Plus. I walked there and the guys in there spoke english and helped me put the bike into the box. Whoop.