Today started with another Vietnamese buffet breakfast in the hotel before checking out. We the started the city tour which took us past the Old Sai Gon Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral. We stopped at the Reunification palace to learn the history and have a look around the palace, the living quarters, and bomb shelter. Then we jumped back on the bus for a 7 hour journey to Chau Doc, with a stop at the Mekong Delta for lunch, where we tried a nvery interes...

We landed in Ho Chi Minh City after a relaxing flight where we collected our bags and headed out to meet our tour guide, Tre, and get on the bus. With a slight change in the itinerary we headed off to the War Remnants museum, where we had a good look around and had time to take in all the information. It was a very confronting and amazing experience. Not only learning more about the Vietnam War but seeing the real effects on the country and people and being ther...

Day 8: Hue to Ho Chi Minh Today started very early with a wake up call from the hotel at 4:45. We got ready, packed up and headed down to the lobby, where we checked out, picked up our breakfast boxes and jumped on the bus, leaving the hotel at 5:45am to head to the Hue airport. We are our breakfast on the bus, arrived at the airport, checked in and said goodbye to our tour guide Suong. We headed through customs and had a bit of time to relax and look around bef...

Today started with an early rise to say goodbye to Hoian and head to Hue. We had a quick stop in Danang at a marble shop where there were many statues carved out of local marble. We then carried on our travels and our next stop was at the Danang lookout at the top of a big hill where an American military base was during the war. We then carried on into Hue. Our first stop in Hue was at the Minh Mang Mausoleum - the 2nd Emperor of the Minh dynasty. We learnt abo...

This morning we had a very relaxing morning. We started the day swimming, sleeping and relaxing in the hotel, we had a big buffet breakfast before some of us headed into town to the tailors to pick and choose some clothes to get tailor made, while the rest stayed relaxing at the hotel. At 10am everyone met in the city and had an hour look around. We then gathered up again and boarded a boat on the river and started the river cruise, we got about 2 minutes into it...