Can you fit in my tunnel Much the same as the previous day we were crammed into another tour bus on the way to the Cu Chi tunnels. These are the minute tunnels the Vietnamese built to fend off the American troops. We were told there were a lack of weapons on the Vn side so they had to complete a lot of counter attacks at night and hide in the day. There are 3 levels of tunnels, 2,4 and 6 meters deep. Most of the current generation of Vietnamese are too big to fi...

Mekong Delta The Mekong river is the 14th longest river in the world. It starts in Tibet and flows through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I've been wanting to see the delta for some time, mainly because of the size of the river and because I have never seen the end of a river in real life. We packed onto a bus, although we were told 20 people on the tours (same as Northern Vietnam) it was easily 45 people (so a Vietnamese 20!). The trip to the delta is a...

Sizzle in the city And so we were in Ho Chi Minh City/Siagon. This place has had 4 different names, picked by the Cambodians, French and Vietnamese. Most people especially inside the city still refer to it as Saigon but the north renamed it a year after the south was won over and reunified. The temperature here is in the low to to mid 30's so it doesn't take much to become a sweaty mess! We didn't know what to expect on arriving. We had heard it was must more ...

Tour D' Hoi An We had some time to kill so we grabbed the bikes from the hotel and decided to go for a cycle. The bikes here look like they came out of the 70's, they have a basket, a bell and are made for people at the maximum height of 4ft 5" - My knees go above the handlebars when I peddle! It doesn't take much more than 10 minutes of cycling before you end up away from the town. We chose to find a coconut plantation that was shown on the map we had, as you...

Failing at Bartering You can buy a ticket that allows you to visit 5 of the 30 or so sites around the old city. The weather had a been a bit glum since Monday, so it seemed like a good time to go and have a wander around. We checked out an assembly hall and community meeting place. I can't tell you what the difference is, both looked like some variation of a temple to me! The ancient house we went to after was much more interesting, on the second floor (away fr...