Hiya We flew into Saigon yesterday and the heat hit us straight away. Our guide is a bit weird and is full of himself, what he hasnt done isnt worth doing!!! We had a city tour today and thankfully it was from the air conditioned van, we got to see the chinese herbal market where there were some delightful scorpions and other huge creatures stuffed in jars for medicinal purposes. Rob wanted to bring the Cobra home, as if!! I'm sure he thought he could...

Hi and greetings from Hoi An in Central Vietnam, We drove from Hue yesterday stopping off at Danang along the way to see a sculpture museum - not exactly our cup of tea but we had to show willing even if we were half asleep !! Hoi An is a beautiful old market town - the guide took us on a half day tour and we got to visit the Japanese Bridge, a 400 yr old Merchants House (thats where the Posh and Becks pictures were taken !) and a Silk Factory - we knew...

Hiya Yumm Yumm for our cooking lesson. We headed off to the restaurant around 3pm (the restaurant is owned by the guides sister so thats handy for the sister!) I had earlier in the day told the guide that I am a vegetarian (I dont even eat Chicken in Asia as I have read disturbing newspaper reports of another outbreak of bird flu in southern Vietnam and Asia) so for the purposes of the cooking class I am a Vegetarian (and so is poor Rob, he didnt get ...

Hi all We are now in Hue. We flew in earlier today and had time at the hotel for a snooze, now its back to sight seeing. The guide took us outside the hotel and 2 cyclo drivers were waiting for us. We climbed aboard and away we went. I dont think I've ever been so scared, the traffic in vietnam is like nothing I've ever seen (even on TV), the sheer volume of bikes and cars is beyond belief and my thought as I was being driven through the traffic on the c...

Hello everyone and greetings from Vietnam HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone - hope you had a good NYE back in the UK.. At the moment we're in Halong Bay which is about 300km east of Hanoi on the coast. Yesterday on teh way here we had a horse and cart ride around a local village followed by our own personal theatre/song performance - you can see by the pictures that we were a bit shocked when 4 ladies and their 'band' started carrying on - neither of us knew ...