We thought it would be fun to travel the Mekong independently, but with limited time, we decided to book a tour and extend our time at our last stop. So, we got a cheap bus tour from Saigon that would take us to the key cities in the Mekong - My Tho, Ben Tre, Can Tho, and Chau Doc. The Mekong Delta is formed by the mighty Mekong River dumping its silt as it heads out to the South China Sea. The river splits off into nine branches in the Delta off of the larg...

We decided to abandon the bus rides (it would have been 17 hours to get to Saigon) and bought cheap air tickets on Pacific Airways. Just over an hour after leaving Danang airport, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City. Everyone in the south still calls it Saigon, so we'll just call it that as well. We hadn't heard great things from fellow travelers about Saigon, so we thought we would probably just stay for two days and quickly leave for the Mekong Delta. Saigon surp...

Hello all! We are almost caught up. We have uploaded updates for Hanoi, Halong Bay, Ninh Binh, Hue, and Hoi An. We will be uploading updates from Saigon and the Mekong Delta in the next few days. We leave for Phnom Penh tomorrow! Love to all! -Bev and Sean

After a five-hour bus ride, we arrived in Hoi An, a Unesco World Heritage site that is 45 minutes south of Danang. Rich with colonial history, it is a really quaint little town with French, Japanese, and Chinese influences. We stayed in town for four days, and we enjoyed ourselves there. It would have been pretty close to paradise had it not been for relentless touts selling anything and everything, but in particular, clothes. Hoi An is THE place to get clothes ...

Hue was once the capital of Vietnam (for a few hundred years), and it has some interesting sites in its own right. Nestled along the Perfume River, it is also a good jumping off point for viewing sites in the DMZ. There is an old citadel and emporers' tombs, but we are primarily going to Hue to learn more about the war and absorb the sights near the DMZ. First, we needed to get there from Ninh Binh, and that meant we had to take our first overnight bus ride. T...