An early start today... we were collected from our hotel before 8am and led to a small coach - our transport for the day! We were heading for two of the main sights around Ho Chi Minh City - the Cao Dai Great Temple and the Cu Chi Tunnels. It turned out that we had a brilliant guide who was very funny and kept us all entertained on the long bus stints throughout the day! On our way out of the city, he told us all about the motorbikes in the city. Apparently in a...

After a good night's sleep and a lie-in, we headed down to reception and booked a tour for tomorrow to see a nearby temple and the tunnels built and used by the Vietnam army during the war. We then went to a few travel agencies to check on prices to get to Nha Trang in a few days - as it's a public holiday coming up all the prices are much higher than usual - great! We managed to book bus tickets though, and were lucky as lots were already full. We stopped at a ...

We were picked up early from the hotel this morning and taken to our 'big bus' that would take us all the way to Saigon in Vietnam! As soon as we boarded, the conductor took our passports (maybe to check that we had our Vietnam visas?) and we only got them back when we got to the border about 3 hours later; we had to get off the bus and queue to be stamped out of Cambodia. Then it was back onto the bus for the very short drive to the Vietnam border post. This tim...