WATERWORLD DAY 60: Mekong Delta I knew it would be a pretty sleepless night, but when the cockerel started crowing at 3.40am it was a bit of a joke. Finally got some proper sleep about 10 minutes before we had to wake up. We had a quick breakfast on the lawn at 6am, said goodbye to our hosts, who had the most adorable toddler daughter, then made our way to the first of our boats for the day. We had to catch a small boat out in to the middle of the Mekong then...

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...