Today I took a tour to the Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh and a tour to the Cu Chi tunnels in Cu Chi (obviously lol). The start was usual, bus running late, however the journey to Tay Ninh more than made up for it as we had a slightly random tour guide. First off he kept singing in Vietnamese and then translating into English for the group and he then insisted on having all of us tell everyone our names and what country we were from. I almost felt like standing up a...

Today has been very up and down with things I have seen and how I have felt. It started with breakfast at ABC bakery which was recommended to me by someone last night, so breakfast was a good start. I thought I would walk out of District 1 and go to the Vietnamese War Museum. Someone had said it was quite graphic but I thought how bad could it be? I arrived there and it was just as I had thought, tanks and Chinooks displayed outside of the building with random t...

My first day in Saigon was long and hot. I decided to go walking round the city and see some of the sights. I visited the Saigon version of Notre Dame which was a nice little Church sort of similar to the one in Paris except this one is made of red brick and is not quite as ornate on the outside as the one in Paris. Across the road from Notre Dame is the Central Post Office, still in use and very ornate itself. I was pleased when I went in that they had a clock w...

I've put a couple days into this blog otherwise they would be too short. Yesterday started with me going to the Thap Ba Hot Springs and Spa. I felt yet again like the only 'Westerner in the village' as I boarded the shuttle bus to get there but got over it. Arrival at the Hot Springs was quicker than I thought it would be, however I am glad I decided against taking a motorbike and going myself as the route we took was nothing like it was displayed on the map! As ...

Today has been the best day, it started with my cooking class at Lanterns Vietnamese Restaurant. It was incredibly nice of them to put on an extra cooking class for me and one other lone traveller who happened to be in Nha Trang the same time as me, it was when I got to the restaurant and discovered the other lone traveller was actually Jackie that I knew we'd have a good laugh today. The class started with a tour of the local market with the chef and after a sh...