Cantavil An Phu Ho Chi Minh City

... the photos are an amazing record into what went on they are incredibly hard to look at. You feel that you are looking into some very disturbing moments in people's lives. There were areas of the museum that I couldn't visit as it was just to upsetting. One of the worst things I read was from a photographer who took a photo of a group of people, women and children included, which stated that when he turned ...

... a beautiful river. We ate some fantastic Italian food and then went for nails and Tom had a massage.
We dressed up for Halloween and set off with Vinh - Natalie's local friend to a themed night out.
Not before Natalie gave us a shot of local rice wine which tasted like paint stripper. She then explained that this drink was good for men..... so why I got some I still don't know, but that it was made using goat's penis! - Thanks for that Natalie!!!
The first place ...

... the fat chicken.

After munching on some dry cookies for lunch, we head out into the wild city of Saigon. People had warned us that it's crazy but it's not worse than Hanoi in terms of traffic and it's actually cleaner here. Once, there was no break in the stream of motorbikes and cars whatsoever, so we followed a little old local lady with a cone hat across the street. She was so slow Pierre almost ran her over with his newly found ...

Well we had a pretty decent journey from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh city, no border crossing complications or surprises (except me and Dan wanting to include Clare and Kim in our 'sleeping' album). We headed straight for the 'backpacker' area in search of a guest house and found a decent one hidden up one of the cities many many alleyways.
Our guest house owner failed to mention the birthday party taking place in the guest house entrance though, so we ...

... hồ sinh vật biển, bể bơi, sân quần vợt, các trò chơi dưới nước và
một cù lao bãi đá đang được xây dựng trên đó là nhà hàng, chung ...

... cả năm không dưới 25 độ C vào ban đêm và không cao hơn 30 độ C vào ban ngày cùng với ánh nắng mặt trời toả sáng mỗi ngày. Vì ở gần xích đạo nên ...

... n đến chiêm ngưỡng một loài hoa với cái tên lạ mà quen — thảo mộc tình yêu. Ui, không phải trong cổ tích đâu nha, thảo mộc tình yêu chính là m ...

... guide book proved to be fairly inaccuarate in its location of Fanny.... perhaps the author had difficulties in this area?

In the end we found the Fanny and indulged ourselve in probably the best ice cream we've ever had. We both highly recommend Fanny!

After that we made our way to the war museum, we only had a sort time to look round, which was a real shame as it was really educational.

... people with similar tales on the way down the coast. In fact, I refused to wear my sunglasses for fear of them being nicked but Sarah rightly told me I am a total wussy and to grow some balls.

So, we walked across town to the War Remnants Museum back to back, ready to repel attackers. Sarah was on point while I provided cover at the rear. Amazingly, we ...

... tunnels where the Vietnamese fought the Americans and we were astonsihed to learn that some families lived in the tunnels for more than 10 years sometimes being allowed out at noght, though mostly only to fight. Unbelievable what they went through.
First stop was Nha Trang via an overnight train and hey ho we got an upgrade ;) 1st class train! they're such good fun but we all arrived a wee bit tired as normally they got in at the strangest of hours early ...