Monday November 3rd- last day in Nam Today was our last day in Vietnam. We woke up early once again and went to the city post office to get stamps and use the phones. There were pay phones all over the city but none of them worked to make phone calls with phone cards. After making some calls, we hired motorcycle drivers to let us drive to the War Remnants Museum. It was a lot more fun to actually drive in the crazy traffic and probably not the smartest ...

Sunday November 2nd - 4th day in Nam This morning we woke up early yet again. Just like yesterday and the Mekong Delta, we decided to just wing it and try to go to the Cu Chi Tunnels. We had heard from one of our friends, Raphael, that they just hired a cab driver to go so that was our plan. I actually talked to a guy yesterday who followed us around the first day and he said he would meet us at the Rex hotel where the shuttle dropped us off and he would take...

Saturday November 1st- 3rd day in Nam Today we woke up pretty early because we had plans to go to the Mekong Delta and wanted to be on our way by 8:00. The delta is the southern most part of Vietnam and is famous for its floating markets and rice paddies. It takes about an hour and a half to get there. Lacey, Erica, Raphael and I had asked around different tourist places in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) and they all offered day trips for $60ish. So we decided to...

Friday October 31st, Day 2 Vietnam Today was our first full day in Vietnam. Lacey and I had both signed up for an SAS sponsored trip to a school for handicapped children. The trip left from the ship at 8am so we got up early and ate breakfast before meeting on the pier for the trip. There was only 15 students or so on this trip compared to the 70+ on the orphanage visit in Malaysia. We took a 20 minute drive to a different more residential part of town....

Wednesday October 30th Finally in Nam and it is so much fun! Ho Chi Minh City is located on a river so we had to take a river from the ocean for a few hours to get here. And we didn't get here until noon because the river is tidal and we needed to wait for high tide. The trip up the river was a lot of jungle, small little boats similar to in the Amazon, and a lot of houses on stilts. We finally got and Lacey, Ari, Steph and Erica, Mitch, Sam and I all went ou...