Saw Bruce this morning before we headed off for a half day tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels with local guide Gem 1.5 hour bus trip then into the tunnel complex Saw lots of examples of tunnel entrances and examples of what the Viet Minh (we know them as Viet Cong which was an American propaganda term used outside Vietnam to suggest the "communist peril" Then into one of the tunnels - very narrow and A could only go through on hands and knees for 20metres. V did it de...

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...