On the 17th we got up early again and headed off on our a nice bus trip from Chau Doc to Saigon. The trip took 6 -7 hours but we had a lovely stop along the way at a great restaurant where the food was fab.  We arrived in Saigon and Neen, Jacqui, Helen and Pat went on a little walking tour to have a look around.  We saw the Reunification Palance, the Market, Notre Dame and the Post Office.  The city was very pretty   That night we headed out to ...

On the 16th we headed off on a speedboat down the Mekong river.  It was another interesting journey.  Before we did so we sang happy birthday to Padhraig who turned 30 on our tour.  We headed about 2 hours down river and then got off the boat to go through the border on the Cambodian side - this took all of 3 minutes each   The we headed two minutes down on the boat and waited 45 minutes at the Vietnam border - were we got people selling us beer, drin...