We got up and went for breakfast during which I was persuaded to buy a book, 'the killing fields'! It's actually epic and most of today was spent reading that. Becky was feeling a bit flu like so we chilled in the hostel for most of the day. We went for dinner and I tried a 'Vietnamese pancake' having no clue what it actually was. It turned out to be delicious and was a pancake type thing filled with beansprouts, lettuce, shrimp, beef and rice on the side. I coul...

We had a tour organised for today so we were feeling less than happy when alarms went off at 6.45. I'm actually getting quite good at rising early but it's still no craic whatsoever. We headed round to panda travel and waited for our bus to the tunnels. On the way we were going to visit the largest temple in Vietnam, which is pretty exciting! We were on the bus for about two hours, half asleep and half listening to music. We eventually hit the temple and had to r...

The sleeper bus was absolutely horrendous as per usual. It's not actually that bad but you get no sleep whatsoever. After being sandwiched between two Vietnamese people all night, we arrived in Ho Chi at 6.30am. I gave the taxi driver the guest house recommendation and he drove around in circles looking for it. The meter was racking up so I just gave him the equivalent of 5 dollars and told him to let us out. Pretty luckily, we ended up in the backpackers area an...