Chancery Ho Chi Minh City

... got to know the sound of a gun as an everyday sound. It's quite something to think how lucky we have been in our lives to grow up in a safe place.<br> When we arrived back to the city we decided to visit the war museum to gain a greater insight into the history of Vietnam. This we both found very hard to deal with. The war museum is home to photographs depicting various events during the Vietnamese war ...

... this ludicrous system for entry? Surely it only results in making the whole process more cumbersome and tedious for all parties involved. What a farce.<br><br>Back on the bus and two hours later we arrived in the backpacker area of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, as it was formerly/kind of still is known. Predictably, a throng of transport and accomodation vultures were swarming around the bus door, peeking inside and waving frantically with shouts of "My friend!" and ...

... the size of a mango... and to add insult to injury, it tasted absolutely nothing! It was dry and bland. Pierre has now lost all his fruit power and we've officially declared that he no longer has the right to choose or pick any fruit or any veggies for the rest of the trip, if not for the rest of his pomelo-less life. Mind you, when i go back to work next year, he may be granted progressive power over time, as he will be the one doing the groceries. :o)<br>

Idag var det dags for den forsta riktiga turistturen i landet. Vi skulle se chu chi-tunnlarna och skulle vara borta mellan 8-17, men det blev yttligare 1,5 timma pa buss.<br>Pa bussen far vi reda pa att vi ska lagt at helve... Vi skulle besoka ett tempen och se pa en cermoni som tillhor en religion som har en mix av de storre religionerna i varlden. Valdigt speciellt stalle. Tamplet lag inne pa ett omrade avskljt av en mur. Utanfor muren kan det liknas med misar men innenfor var ...

... it was still only about £5 for a private, air-conditioned room with TV, breakfast and wi-fi included so you can&#8217;t really complain. And it was cock roach free which is always worth an extra couple of dollars. <br> However that afternoon it rained. It rained Cambodian style in fact. And so for the first few hours we didn&#8217;t get up to much. When we did eventually brave the outdoor world (prompted mainly by my stomach) the only thing we had had the ...

... The train left at 7:40pm and arrived at 5:40am. It was a sleeper train that had 4 people per room and had a/c. Our car was titled 'soft bed sleepers.&#8217; For some reason I was not in the same room as Brooke and Dad but instead roomed with 3 friendly Europeans who were travelling to Nha Trang as well. They offered me Champagne and seemed to be having a great ride. It was easy to fall asleep after a busy day and still suffering from jet lag.

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wow comin from a 3 day motor bike trip "easy rider" we got to saigon early morning well 7am, first it was hard to find accomidation but managed to get a $10 room fan room, we had a scout around the back packer area, not really much to see we know we wanted to go the the chu che tunnels and shooting range, and a real good night out so we planned for 3 or 4 day stay.<br>the tunnels were amazing these were the main reason i was interested to go to ...

... world! Whilst we were there we checked out a couple of old American bunkers and a huge cemetary with over 3000 Vietnamiese soldiers buried in, the sad thing about this place is that it is not known who the soldiers are. On their headstones it just says "unknown soldier" and "martyr". Later on in the day we went to the Vin Moch caves, this is a huge underground set of tunnels just above the border where hundreds of locals lived whilst the land above them was bombed by the Americans. People ...