Nha Trang After a slack day Sunday in Can Tho spending lots of time sitting in cafes drinking coffee and people watching, also updating the blog, we headed back up to Saigon on Monday (7 September) by bus (5 hours).They have an interesting concept here of busing everyone to the outskirts of the city and then cramming them into a minibus to drive into the central city area.There were 10 of us in our minibus - yes we could breathe but just not move - luckily we ar...

Nha Trang After a slack day Sunday in Can Tho spending lots of time sitting in cafes drinking coffee and people watching, also updating the blog, we headed back up to Saigon on Monday (7 September) by bus (5 hours).They have an interesting concept here of busing everyone to the outskirts of the city and then cramming them into a minibus to drive into the central city area.There were 10 of us in our minibus - yes we could breathe but just not move - luckily we ar...

Nha Trang After a slack day Sunday in Can Tho spending lots of time sitting in cafes drinking coffee and people watching, also updating the blog, we headed back up to Saigon on Monday (7 September) by bus (5 hours).They have an interesting concept here of busing everyone to the outskirts of the city and then cramming them into a minibus to drive into the central city area.There were 10 of us in our minibus - yes we could breathe but just not move - luckily we ar...

Mekong River Delta Friday (4 September) was an early start for our bus trip down to Can Tho, the largest town on the Mekong Delta.We had to be at the bus ticketing office by 8am and from there transported out on a local bus which took 40mins to the bus station on the outskirts of the city.No problems with our bus, a fairly new Hyundai, complete with seatbelts, curtains and large flat screen TV above the driver which played a variety of local entertainment.The tr...

Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) We arrived in Saigon around 7pm Tuesday (1 September) after spending the day between flights, in Kuala Lumpur. We were very lucky to have friends Okki & Remco pick us up at the airport at 9.30am and drive us into KL where we had a late breakfast under the Petronas Twin Towers and a great long chat before Remco kindly drove us back to the airport to wait for our flight to Saigon after 5pm. Saigon was extremely wet when we arrived but...