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 restuarant to have an early lunch of the traditional Vietnamese dish Pho, which is a noodle soup with beef or chicken. We've had noodle soup in other countries but this one was delicious! Think we'll be sampling it again during our stay.

We then followed the route on the map we'd been given at the hotel, and walked to the War Remnants Museum. This was an eye-opening and moving experience, as we saw photos of some of the atrocities and of children severly disabled as a result of the bombing and napalming during the war. We also saw photos taken by war photographers along with their descriptions - a lot of the local people in the photos were shot dead seconds after the photographs were taken. As the Lonely Planet says...'There are few museums in the world that drive home so well the point that war is horribly brutal and that many of its victims are civilians' - can't really saw it better than that.

While we were inside the museum, the heavens opened and it rained veyr heavily for about half an hour - we're not used to rain anymore! It soon cleared up and we managed to walk to the Reunification Palace, but we were too late to go inside, so just took a few photos. As we were walking towards the indoor market on our way back to the hotel, the heavens opened again and we had to stand against a building with some locals to shelter. It was rush hour at this point and we saw lots of motorbike riders pull over to get their giant poncho/rainjackets out, then carry on their journeys - this must happen a lot!

We eventually made it to the market and bought a few presents before stopping for a drink in a fancy hotel. We sat in big gold chairs which looked like the Big Brother diary room chair from a few years ago! We got a bit wet on the last leg of the walk back to the hotel but we didn't mind that much.

That night we ate in a restaurant down one of the side streets adn I discovered that when a restaurant offers LOTS of different cuisines in one menu (so many that it needs a contents page) it's best to stick to local food - the mexican I had was NOT good, while Dave's noodles were very nice!

After a disappointing dinner we found a bar with live music and sat watching the band for a few hours before going back to the hotel. Looking forward to our tour tomorrow...