We got a bus from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City previously called Saigon, a very boring 7hour bus journey including the crossing into Vietnam which was very quick and easy due to already getting our visas when in Cambodia! Arriving here was manic the city literally never stops and the roads are always packed filled with motorbikes mainly and a few cars along with food stalls everywhere and the usual having people try to sell you all sorts of things! We found it extremely difficult to cross the roads as zebra crossings don't seem to mean the same thing here as no one stops for anyone, so we always had to just run across hoping for the best!
We arrived at the hotel which was nice in the 'backpacker central' of Saigon we settled in and soon went out to explore with also having a dinner at a Mexican restaurant basically next to our hotel which we loved so erm we went every day and also to book a couple tours to do for the next couple days we had here!

So the next day we had to meet at 8am for our first tour which was the chu chi tunnels that were used during the Vietnam war! With all the tunnels underground in total covering 250km one way leading to Cambodia and the over to the river! This was a very interesting day both learning lots that we didn't know before seeing all the different ways too in which they would kill the Americans! We were able also to go through one of the tunnels which was a good experience very cramped especially for dom and very very hot!! We also bought 10 bullets to try out shooting a gun at a shooting range, I done two but didn't like it so let dom enjoy doing all the rest!!
In the afternoon we went out looking for a market after walking around in a massive circle not finding it we found a taxi to take us realising then that we had been walking in the complete wrong direction! After getting caught in a big rainstorm with a grumpy dom dom we went and got hot chocolates while the rain settled down before making our way home!

Next day we were going to the Mekong delta we met at 7.45am and were taken to our bus after the longest bus journey only 2 hours but they insisted on having 2 20min toilet stops along the way we made it to the river! Getting on first a big boat to take us to an island to see coconut factory where they make coconut candy which was so nice of course we bought some, then we were
taken in a horse cart type thing to the restaurant for lunch before heading onto a different smaller boat a long a nice calm part of the river covered with trees! Back to our big boat we were then taken to two more islands one which was just a tourist island really but had lots of crocodiles which were interesting to watch and a cool bridge made out of bamboo that we walked across and the other island a little more quiet where we tried their honey in a tea like drink which was very nice and then to eat again!!! This time lots of fruit while listening to their traditional music which neither of us were fans off! Then onto what I think was both our highlight of the trip we went onto yet another boat but this time a rowing boat rowed by too Vietnam women along a beautiful part of the river was so peaceful surrounded by trees creating almost like a tunnel for us to go through was so pretty!!! Back to the big boat and our tour was over just had the long bus journey home! Arriving home straight away we went for dinner, then going home to plan where we wanted to go next and sort it all out along with going out one more time to experience the hectic streets of Saigon!