HOMESTAY SWEET HOMESTAY DAY 59: Mekong Delta I was awoken at 4.30am today by a cockerel's morning call. What? Wouldn't have minded too much if we were in the countryside, but we were in the middle Ho Chi Minh City. We had to be up at 6am for our trip to the Mekong Delta, the lifeblood of Vietnam where the Mekong river splits into a network of thousands of smaller rivers and rice paddies before it meets the sea. Our hosts for the evening are a Vietnamese family...

A DAY OF REST DAY 58: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Kelly, Nat and Alex headed off to the Cu Chi Tunnels today, but we decided to take it easy as Jen wasn't feeling great. We headed out for brunch quite late after a welcome lie in. Whilst we were eating we could see a motorbike over the road with what looked like a BBQ on the front where the basket would be. We then went to Ben Thanh market - a huge indoor market that sells everything you could ever need. Althoug...

THE WOLFPACK, IT GREW BY TWO DAY 57: Mui Ne to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) We had a late start this morning to prepare for our long bus ride to Saigon. After checking out, we headed back to the chilled out bar, Pogo where the sun had decided to come out for a change, so we enjoyed a few drinks and lunch on the front watching the fishing boats do their thing just off the shore. Our bus was a little late and it took about half an hour to finally leave Mui Ne so w...

ULTIMATE JENGA IN RAINY MUI NE DAY 56: Mui Ne Although the sky wasn't clear it was nice enough to sit out and sunbathe in the morning so after breakfast we chilled out on the sunbeds for a few hours, listening to the waves roll in and cooling off in the pool, as it did get very hot. It started to rain just before lunch, so we took shelter over at La Paillotte for a few drinks and lunch. After lunch we didn't feel like moving as it was still raining, so the t...

COCKTAILS AT SUNSET DAY 55: Mui Ne Our bus picked us up at about 8am in Nha Trang for the five hour journey to Mui Ne, Vietnam's other, quieter, main beach resort. We were really hoping for some sun now. The journey was fairly boring but it did give us an opportunity to see rural Vietnam and some fairly remote places. It's amazing how self-sufficient people can be in their own communities. When we finally arrived at Mui Ne we checked in to a lovely hotel ac...