On Friday we did a boat trip on the Mekong Delta. We went to Unicorn Island to try some traditional honey tea which had honey, lime juice and pollen in it! It was really nice! Also tried some banana whisky which wasn't nice-too strong! It didn't taste like banana's either. We tried some tropical fruits like papaya, jack fruit and dragon fruit. I didn't really like any of them. The papaya was particularly disgusting. It tasted like cheese. Bad cheese. There was tr...

Well, Ho Chi Minh City is not the kind of place you want to be in when you've had 2 hours sleep, may have drank a little too much the night before and you're far too hot. Our taxi driver from the airport told us it was a small city where 20 million people live and 5 million motorbikes & scooters are on the roads. That was before he tried to rip us off. We agreed $9 (they use a lot of US dollars here) yet 10 minutes later he was saying it was $12 plus a toll f...

I'm taking my stats back. The taxi driver was a liar as well trying to con us! Our tour guide yesterday for the Cu Chi tunnels told us that 9 million people live in Saigon...with 6 million motorbikes. That's 2 in every 3 people. He also said that it only takes 1 day to get your motorbike licence. You can tell. He also told us not to get upset today as Vietnam now has no problem with France or America. The tour is more about how the people pulled together to survi...