Just sat in Ho Chi Minh City for the last night before flying into India and then ultimately to the Himalayas with the old man. I'm not sure of the availability of computers deep in the Himalayas so may as well try and get this thing up-to-date before I start receiving the normal complaints of 'everyone thinks you vanished of the face the earth!' Well, I'm still here, just waiting from inevitable 'Delhi Belly'. Last time I think I finished my blog in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Looking back it was a great place with a really laid back atmosphere, this was probably due to the fact that beers ranged from about $0.30 to $0.70. The beach wasn't bad considering the state of the country with the odd boat floating upside down into the shore and hundereds of kids trying to sell you needless crap that would just get wet anyway.

After a few days relaxing in Sihanoukville we headed to the capital, Phnom Phen. Yet another very busy, dusty city with interesting markets where you could get you hands on deep fried tarantulas or live ones if thats your preference and if your completely weird, of course deep fried ones are completely normal. In Phnom Phen the main attraction is the Section 21 torture museum used by Poll Pot in the seventies. It was all very depressing with plenty of grusome photos to make you feel bad. So just to make everyone feel better we were taken to the killing fields and shown the mass graves where all the Cambodians were executed. It was a very depressing experience but it's good to see how everyone is just getting on with it and they're always smiling. That's probably because they know that they're ripping you off everytime you buy something from them.

From Phnom Phen we headed across the boarder into Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. You can instantly see the difference between the two countries in that Vietnam has tarmac on their roads and is just generally better off than Cambodia. Saigon as it's known to the locals is a slightly scaled down version of Bangkok in that you are playing with death when attempting to cross the roads, there a scooters everywhere and no particular law as to which side of the road you have to be on. I spent a couple of days in Saigon trying to learn a bit about the war and the place as I couldn't make any sense of my Lonley Plant guide. I wondered through the tiny Chu Chi tunnels which were originally designed for dwarf children durning the war but I think a few of the Viet Cong also used them.

The past two days I have spent out of the city on the Mekong Delta, a river which starts all the way up in the Himalayas (a very education blog so far I think). Whilst there I tried snake curry and it's really not all it's cracked up to be which wasn't a lot and just drifted down the river via some floating markets and generally taking in the sights. It was a nice break from the city especially as I will be landing into Delhi tomorrow. I have tried loading some photos but I fear i would miss my flight in the morning because the computers are so slow. I'll try and update again before I get back, but if not see you all soon! x