15/03/09 - Saigon to Mekong Delta We meet at 7:30 for our bus to the Mekong Delta. Today is upposed ot be the last day of our trip but as Mekong is a favourite place of our leader and he has organised an ovenight trip for us and he is coming along! It takes around 3 hours to get there and on the way we stop at a beautiful garden for a wee break. As soon as we arrive we meet our local guide and get straight on the boat and off to the brick making factory to see ...

13/03/09 - Saigon We arrive at 4am and have a small nap before we meet up again at 6:30 for breakfast at Pho 2000, this place is famous becuase Bill Clinton visited it in 2000. From there we take a bus to the Cu Chi tunnels, it's so interesting, the traps they had (deadly), the vast network of tunnels, their tactical genius (soldiers only knew a very small part of the layout of the tunnels in case they were caught and tortured for information etc) they were incr...

11/03/09 - Nha Trang We are rudely woken up by building works going on right outsuide our door at 6:45am. Not just small building but large scale renovation. Mattie is not impressed and is super grumpy and phones down to reception, who hang up on him a couple of times and then a cheerful girl comes to the door to tell us not to worry coz they'll be finished at 5pm - helpful! We can't get back to sleep so we decide to get up and get some breakfast. The temperatur...

07/03/09 Hue to Hoi An In the morning we wake up early in Hue to get the bus to Hoi An. It takes 4 hours and we have a couple of stops along the way, a lake which is out of the way and really quiet but suprise, suprise there is a woman there waiting to sell even though we're hiding from her on the bus she cathches us!!! We also pass by marble mountain and then go to a shop nearby selling marble products, the stuff they have is amazing, absolutely amazing but ma...

We arrive in Hue at about 11 am and all cram into one taxi, it's a roasting hot day here! We settle into our damp room and head straight into town for something to eat. We have dinner a Ushi's who gives us a enthusiastic greeting 'Ushi say hi!'. She apparently has a website and that is here catch phrase?! We're not that in pressed with the food but the beer Huda is refreshing! We're all a bit tired so decide to go to another hotel for the afternoon, it's good to ...