Today off on a full day tour to the Mekong Delta After a 2 hour bus ride we went on boat ride past a number of small inhabited islands in the delta and got off at a coconut farm where they make coconut candy and various other coconut goodies. Rice paper making and the old Python around the neck thing for Josh but not A or V Then onto a sort of motorized tuk tuk thing for a ride through the back lanes to a typical family home for some fantastic fresh fruit follo...

Alarm at 4 am to get bus at 5am to Danang Airport for flight to HCM City / Saigon Arrived and in hotel by 9.30 and our rooms were ready! Bruce walked us to the park to see the singing birds but they had gone so we went to a bakery near the hotel for brunch Then back to the hotel till 2.30pm when we went on a bus tour of the city First to the War Remnants Museum which was very interesting and quite confronting because it was a period of history we lived throug...

Free day today Breakfast earlier due to wedding mid morning Chilled out in room while Mamama had massage and pedicure etc Lunch across the road then taxi to the beach which was great. J and V had a swim, we all had some grogs and relaxed for a while then taxi back to hotel Pool swim and some more drinks then shared a taxi with Tenzin to go into the old town and pick up her tailor made dresses Met Mathis there and then off to Market Restaurant for dinner. Exc...

Off this morning on our bus to Hoi An via Da Nang Lots of stops on the way due to incredible mountain and coastal scenery - it really is an amazing drive Main stop at the mountain pass which held strategic importance in the Vietnam War as from this point you can see anyone approaching for many miles north and south so the French and later Americans set up bunkers there so they could see the Vietcong approaching. However the Vietkong had built the Ho Chi Minh tr...

Today is motor bike tour day of Hue and surrounding villages V went on a bike A and J piked out and took the air conditioned car option. The bike people saw more as they were able to go off the beaten track but still a great day We made stops at a small village with a traditional market, a Royal tomb complex where the Emperor was buried 21 metres underground to confuse the French invaders who broke in a number of times to try and find the tomb to get the riche...