Train way better than expected, cleaner and more comfortable.The train arrived at 6, and we then had an hour bus transfer to our Hotel. The rooms were ok, but the pool had a nice outside pool which was amazing! We had breakfast then slept till midday.Met for motorbike tour to nearby waterfall, run by a guy who dubbed himself Eddie Murphy, and it was incredible. Loads of fun and the waterfall jump (about 20 feet) into cool water was just what we needed after a hot...

Started off the day with a trip to some remaining original Viet Cong war tunnels in the Cu Chi area just north of Saigon. Our tour guide fought for the South Vietnamese Army during the war so it was interesting getting his point of vier on the VC and the Americans and how the new government accepted him after the war finished. We completed a 100 metre section of the tunnels, ate some tapyokaN the staple food of the VC and also watched a video on the VC during th...

Woke up early for the 7 hour trip toHo Chi Minh City (Saigon). We arrived in the afternoon and had a look around the local market and had some 'Fanny's Ice Cream'. Dinner was a rooftop BBQ style place, where you order your food and they bring it and cook it on a gas BBQ in the middle of your table, good fun. It was also our tour guide Steve's birthday, so we got him a cake and sang happy birthday at the end of the meal, and afterwards went looking for places to g...

We woke up at 8am to meet the group and hop on a private bus to the cambodia/vietnam boarder. The boarder was more what we expected, a thin long road with a floodplain either side. More like the 'no mans land' that you'd imagine. A longer wait than the thai/cambodia boarder and a lot more sweaty but only a short drive to our next hotel...We arrived at our Chau Doc hotel mid afternoon and were so shocked at how nice our rooms were! An actual power shower and not a...

Breakfast was at the same beach place we'd eaten dinner at the night before, two greasy eggs and the chewiest bread roll in history. Lucy thought it was good though...We were all bussed to a boat that would take us to the island, which was an hour away (in a very slow boat.) We walked to the other side of the island through perilous jungle, to a beach that was heaven compared to the main one in Sihanoukville. We filled the gap before lunch with some swimming and ...