Since today is our last full day in HCMC, we want to see a few of the tourist places we haven't yet gone. Kay again generously lends us the services of Khai and the van for most of the day, until Hannah needs to be picked up from school. Our first target is the ChoLon area - Chinatown - and its busy market. Inside the market is teeming with stal...

(Jim) Today we visited the War Remnants Museum, which was formerly called the War Crimes Museum. More proof that, especially when the victors are Communists without a free press to contend with, the winners write the history. The exhibits included a wide range of military hardware, including American tanks, howitzers, bombs, mines and aircraft. ...

We'd heard north and south Vietnam and Vietnamese people were very different. I'd have to agree and say arriving in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh city was different to our time in Hanoi. Parts of it certainly felt like it could have been any big 'Western' city with its fancy big brand shops and wide footpaths and posh hotels. Of course other parts were ...

We stpped work on the 14th and spent most of Sunday packing and getting ready to go. Also had to check out of our hotel (yes, living in a hotel/guesthouse) in the morning which meant that we were free agents in the afternoon.

Where to even begin.....the last 6 days have been incredible!!! I guess we'll start at the beginning....Mailynn, who is Vietnamese, was one of my physical therapists at Nova Care in Delran, NJ last fall when I was rehabbing my partially torn UCL. One day at therapy, she mentioned she was getting married in early January back home in Vietnam and ...

So this Ho Chi Minh City. I have never in my life seen so many motorbikes. ently you cn buy a new one for about $400 here. Hmmm. . . . The trafficlights are always crammed with loads and loads of the suckers. I'm tempted to try it but will have to leave the lads on their own if I do. PLanning our trip to Danang at the moment nd trying to find ou...

From Mui Ne we caught our final bus to Saigon(Ho Chi Minh) in Southern Vietnam for some city fun after all the stress of the beaches!! We arrived on Saturday night just in time to watch the derby on ESPN and we all know how that turned out, think Paul was the only blue in the bar, all the bloody foreigners were cheering for the red sh**!! which ...

Day 74 - Phnom Penh - Ho Chi Minh City Another un-horrific bus journey (actual travelling wise anyway) and we've arrived in Saigon. Like I say, the travelling was fine despite the best efforts of the bumpy Cambodian roads (the Vietnamese roads are luxuriously smooth) but the other passengers were an odd bunch to say the least. There was an embar...