Another day trip today, this time to the Mekong Delta! On the drive there our guide told us some of the areas history and culture. Going past the rice fields we could see that were big tombs in the middle of a lot of the fields, and this is apparently for two reasons. Firstly it indicated it's that familia land, and secondly it's so that when they die, the can take the land to another world with then so that they can carry on farming. Vietnam is the number one ex...

Today we had booked on to a day for taking us to a Cao Dai Great Temple in the morning and in the afternoon to the Cu Chi tunnels, left over from the Vietnam war. The temple was about a 3 hour drive away, so plenty of time to get a nap in, although every time a motorbike got in the way (which was a lot) the horn was given one looong beep. The religion of Cao Dai was created in Vietnam in 1926 and is a mixture of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, native Vietnamese...

Our first day in Vietnam! And what a great city for our first stop. We arrived yesterday evening and got picked up from the very quiet airport and whisked straight to the front door of our hotel. It's s lovely little guesthouse tucked down a little alleyway called the Bich Duyen. Kind of hard to find by ourselves though as we discovered this evening! In our trusty lonely planet guide there's a walking tour which takes you around old Saigon so after a massive br...