Week 5- Vietnam (Da Nang) Day 3 So words can't explain how tired we are today. We had a really long night because our flight was delayed until 7.20am after we had got up at 2am thinking we were departing at 5.20. When we arrived at the airport it wasn't even open! Travelling has made us come to the conclusion that English people are very well mannered! A lot of people in Vietnam have been so rude when it comes to queuing etc. I don't think queuing even exists ot...

Week 5- Vietnam (HCMC) Day 2 Today was an early start, we were up at 7am ready for another big day. We stocked up on breakfast at our hostel before our guide picked us up at 8am. Yet again it was a long bus journey, which took about 2 hours each way to the Cu Chi tunnels. On our way we had a rest stop for 20 minutes. The place we stopped at was actually an art workshop for people with disabilities mostly due to the orange agent in the war. The Americans spray...

Week 5- Vietnam (HCMC) Day 1 We rose at 6:30am this morning to go on a day tour to the Mekong Delta despite being on a night bus the night before, tired was a bit of a understatement. The guide collected us from the hotel and took us to the bus station, the Mekong Delta was a 2 hour bus ride from Saigon. Once we got there we got on a boat to take us to some of the different Islands that are along the river (Unicorn Island, Dragon island, Phoenix Island and Turt...

Week 4- Vietnam (HCMC) Day 7 Today we finally arrived in HCMC at about 11am, it had been one hell of a long journey! We were also on and off the bus like yo-yo's. The first time was a bus change in Phnom Penh and then again for a breakfast break. We then had to get off the bus for the Cambodia border and once we got to the Vietnam border we even had to get all our bags off the bus to be scanned.. What a nightmare at about 6am. The overall night bus took around 1...