Time to check out of our hotel and pack once again! When we are done we leave our bags downstairs and head of to the war museum, making sure we get a reliable taxi this time! The war museum is pretty graphic and shows not only effects of the war itself but the long lasting damage the agent orange gas has had on the country, hundreds of disfigured and disabled people which is said to last for further generations ! No wonder they hate westerners! Also showing lette...

Today we go on a tour of the cu chi tunnels which is an area where vietnam soilders fought from tiny tunnels 10-15m underground. We get on the bus and straight away everyone is really friendly and talking about their travels etc, the guide tells us a bit about the war and then tells us we will be stopping half way to the tunnels to 'look at some disabled people' which we found a bit strange. He then explains to us about agent orange which was a toxic gas the US s...

Bus was relatively painless apart from the border crossing where we had to take allll our bags of the bus and through security! We arrive at about 4pm and are tired, hot and can't wait to get to our air conditioned hotel room, when the bus drops us off, a taxi offers to drop us to the hotel, we ask if it is walking distance and he says no. We ask how much ( having absolutely no idea of the currency) and he says it's on a metre, which we have realised is usually a...

So the last few days have been awful! Stuck here with nothing to as the Vietnam embassy has decided to close for a holiday?! We went on an average boat trip and few nice restaurants and backpacker bars but really can't wait to leave, out of all the places we've been I don't think there would be a worse place to be stuck! On of the days the hotel flooded leaving all our clothing soaking and meaning we had to wade threw knee-deep water to leave the hotel, we also h...

Today we went to the killing fields, you get given a headset and map and are directed around the area showing where certain things would have happened and hearing stories from people who were there, thousands of people were brutally killed and then just thrown in pits some were even buried alive. We were told not to go when it's raining as bits of clothing, bones and teeth rise to the surface and can be seen when your walking around, we didn't go when it was rain...