Our trip from Nha Trang to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh) was another 12 hour bus journey, only this time it wasn't overnight. There is only day-time buses for this particular section of road, due to it being unsafe to drive along at night. So we departed Nha trang at 7.30am and didn't arrive in Saigon until 7pm!! It was a long day. We got plenty of stops for food and loo breaks and at one particular roadside cafe were highly amuzed by a monkey that was running around the restaurant and stealing peoples food!

Our first stop in Saigon was the War Museum, where we looked at all the US army planes and tanks and inside read stories, accounts and looked at pictures of the Vietnam War. We were quite shocked by a lot of what we saw, mainly awful pictures of violence and destruction and the consequences and recent affects of the Agent Orange chemical that was used during the war.

Next we went to look at the Notre dame Catherdral and the Opera House, both were stunning with magnificent architecture. In the evenings we went to the Ben Tahn Market where we wandered around the craft stalls and enjoyed noodles at the street food vendors.

We spent some time exploring the city and discovered the best ice-cream parlour we have ever come across. They had every flavour of ice cream imaginable and made some very fancy sundaes. We settled for the mint with chocolate ice-cream - delicious. We also found a food market where every kind of fruit and veg could be bought along with a wide selection of seafood and shellfish.

Our hotel arranged the next leg of the journey for us and booked our bus tickets to go across the border and into Cambodia. We left the hotel at 8.45am and walked to the bus station. The bus departed at 9am and arrived at the Vietnam border at 12pm, our passports had already been taken off us when we got on the bus and we were told to go into a nearby building and wait. We spent a good 10 minutes standing around not too sure about what we were doing or where our passports were. Eventually our names were called and passports returned with a Vietnam departure stamp. We then got back on the bus and were driven a few hundred metres down the road to the Cambodian border. Here we completed forms for our Cambodian visa, which was approved and stuck into our passports within 10 minutes. We reboarded the bus again and continued on our journey into Cambodia....