Went on a trip to the Mekong Delta today with Vince, Tom and Katherine (a girl from Oz who we met in our guesthouse). Today was full of boats! Because it was still the Tet holiday there were tonnes of motorbikes and scooters on the road as everyone goes to visit their families during this time. Got on our first boat at My Tho to a place where they farm bees. They tried to sell us Royal Jelly which according to their fact sheet about it can help cure hepatitis A...

Today was Cu Chi tunnels day - got up early but were too late to have breakfast so grabbed a Banh Mi Thit from a street vendor. Vietnam has really great crusty baguettes and they fill them with pork, minced fat (I tried not to think about that!), veggies and chilli sauce and they are really tasty. As normal on these tours we stopped at an art gallery to try and make us spend money (we were only 20mins from the tunnels - started to get annoying!) At the tunnels ...

After yet another fun night bus journey, Vince, Tom and I arrived in HCMC (Saigon). Today was New Year's Eve in Vietnam (they call New Year Tet). After a brief nap we headed to the War Remnants Museum. Quite a lot of propaganda in there but some very moving stories and photos, especially in respect to Agent Orange which is still having effects now. One thing that stood out to me was a letter from a second generation Agent Orange victim to Barack Obama (I'll put...