Hi,

We enjoyed Hoi An but our bus trip to Saigon was soooooooo long we got taken to the bus station at 6pm to wait for the sleeper bus which finally turned up at 7. The driver started arguing with the guide, they nearly came to blows which was quite funny. Until he turned on the tourists ie us and started shouting at us about where we could and couldnt sit which was quite annoying as Ash and I wanted to be on the bottom bunk but ended up on the top. However we got chatting to some other girls who were only going as far as Nha Trang which is half way. So this broke the journey up for us.

I think the earlier arguement made the bus driver a worse driver (if thats possible) than before so we got very little sleep because he was braking really heavily all the time and the roads are so bumpy and really poor.

We arrived in Nha Trang at 6am and had to wait for over 2 hours for our connecting bus, there was 6 westerners so we all stuck together which is just as well as on the next bus we all got stuck at the back on the 5 beds together so if we didnt know each other before we do now!!!!

We finally got to Saigon at 8pm after the bus abandoned us in the middle of the city but luckily one of the girls we made friends with spoke Vietnamese so got us where we needed to be.

Our hotel was really nice so after a hot shower we went to get some food. There was a lot more going on in Saigon than there had been in Hanoi which was good.

After a good night sleep we walked to the Reunification Palace which was used during the Vietnam war so we had a guided tour we saw offices used and secret passageways. Then we headed to the war remant museum which was really interesting with pictures and artifacts about how the Vietnamese fought the war, some journalists views and pictures and the effects of the agent orange which America used. Some of the photos were really sad and awful to think this only happened a few decades ago.

We were a little bit naughty for dinner we went to Pizza Hut as the food in Vietnam is really bland and we wanted some flavour. It was really nice.

The next day we went to the Cu Chi Tunnels which was really interesting it took about 2hours to get there but we are experts at buses now so it was no problem. We got to go down the entrance to one tunnel which was tiny. Then we saw some of the traps the Vietnamese used to attact the Americans and their dogs they all seemed to involved spikes of some sort. Then we had the chance to go through some of the tunnels and we started to go down but they were so small we had to get out but some of our group did them and they didnt sound very nice.

Back on the bus to return to Saigon, we made some friends on the bus which was nice and one of them offered his parents house in Brisbane for us to stay. We bumped into them again at a bar in the evening and had a drink before returning to pack for our next trip back to Thailand, luckily by plane this time.