Today we did a tour of the city of Saigon. Our first stop was the War Museum. This was a highly disturbing hour walking around looking at the photos and I wont go into the details of it unless you ask me in person. We were both fairly shuck by it. The guide gave us a lot of information about Saigon, but sadly his accent wasnt the best and the two Vietnamese women sitting next to us on the bus wouldnt shut up, and they closed he blinds. This has been a common occu...

Arrived in Ho Chi Minh yesterday evening at about four, got an airport transfer from the hotel to the hotel, obviously! On the way the first thing that struck us about the place is the millions of mopeds swarming the streets like locusts. All they are missing is some extra wing mirrors and some jackets and they could be the biggest gang of mods in the world... its properly scary. They are everywhere, at every junction there is about a hundred of them waiting to c...

Today was as near a perfect day as we have had in six months. Probably my favourite day anyway. We got up at the normal time and had breakfast. Went to the restaurant in the resort and got all the paperwork for the diving class sorted out then too before we broke for lunch early. Sounds normal enough so far, thats why I said it was near perfect!!!! After lunch we headed out on the boat for our last two dives. A guy from the resort brought his camera to video the ...

This place is just too relaxed to be writing blogs. Its almost the opposite of Koh Phangnan even though we sat on the beach there for three days. Phangnan was full of hippies, smelly hippies and seemed like it was more of a drugs and party under the moon kind of island. Here is much more commercial. It is a dive island for sure, but also the shops all around our area are all boutique type shops selling going out clothes, clean looking stuff not hippy stuff. Its m...

So it turns out that the 20 or so hours we spent getting from Ayutthaya to Koh Phangan via train bus and boat was actually the easiest part of the journey. After some food and a trip to the internet and the shop we got in a taxi (the open backed roofed jeep variety) across the island to our bungalow resort beach. Most of the road was an actual road, made of concrete slabs. This was grand, although it was bumpy enough, it came nowhere near to the state of the road...