Wednesday Headed for a look around to the Royal Palace first up . As there the Independence Day was only a few days ago they are now taking down all the special scaffolding and stuff that they had up for the day. We found many of the buildings you couldn't go in or take photos of if you could go in especially at the Silver Pagoda. All the floor in this place is silver tiles but it's all covered in carpets and mats so you can't see much. It's all quite grandiose ...

Mon 10 Nov For today we hired the hotel tuk tuk and headed first towards to the Genocide Museum. This place was a former school turned into a prison detention camp where the Khmer Rouge conducted mass torture and murder of tens of thousands of people. Only 7 people actually survived and were rescued from here when the Vietnamese army took control. Many people from here were taken to the Killing Fields to be slaughtered. From the museum we headed to The killin...

Early start yesterday as we had to catch the Blue Cruiser fastboat from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh at 7am. There was only 10 on the boat plus 3 staff so we had plenty of room to spread out. The poor locals are all struggling with the weight of Pat's bag . I did tell one of them it had a body in it and he gave me a strange look but I might have to think again as someone could believe as I think that couple in Bali a couple of months ago did that to the mother of one ...

Not a very exciting last couple of days. Our last day in Saigon on Thursday was spent at Bobby Brewers watching another movie followed by a massage (#8). Night time people watching is the best part of staying in the main tourist area. Always something going on. We had dinner at a place called The Hideaway where the owner was present for the evening. Looked like a Southern European and the way he was acting it looks like he is a real arse hole. We reckon the loca...

Tuesday 4th Nothing much planned today so we headed to check out some shopping centres . Couldn't believe these places as it was looking walking through Myer or David Jones or any Westfield. Prices to match so don't know who actually shops here as Vietnam is generally so poor though there must be some rich folk around and some ex pats. Between the shopping centres we visited Notte Dame cathedral and the Central post office and send some postcards . After we...