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...