I woke quite early this morning to hear a monkey faffing around on the balcony!! How bizarre! We set off with our Tuk Tuk driver to Choeung Ek, the killing fields from the Pol Pot days. It was out of the city so a long drive! We went through the slums and saw poverty first hand. When we arrived, there were lots of children begging and who were obviously very poor. We went in and looked around the museum part which details all about the Khmer Rouge regime. We also...

We have a lovely big balcony door in our room so it was nice to wake up to natural light for once! We had breakie in the bar downstairs and it was the best so far since arriving in SE Asia! The Tuk Tuk driver who collected us yesterday from the bus station offered to take us around today to see all the main sights, at a price! He was a lovely guy and we decided to go with him as he is employed by the hostel and can speak good English! As we left we watched the n...

We were up bright and early as our bus was collecting us at 8.30am. We had breakfast before being collected in a small mini bus to go 20metres up the road to where the coach was waiting for us!! We boarded and set off! The guide introduced herself before giving us all a bottle of water, a hot dog and a chocolate muffin from the bakery! We were chuffed with that, especially as we weren't expecting it!! Driving through Ho Chi Minh was just as crazy as watching it! ...