Khai Hoan Regency Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... his announcement that it was an American song from the war. He also told us numerous times that he was ugly, and that he loved us very much. He kept singling out individuals and talking at them. By the outskirts of the city, everyone was evidently getting tired of all this, and the collective discomfort was palpable. It seemed to be taking ages to get back to the backpacker area, and we felt trapped. Billy then launched into a second song, and me and Jen, and the couple in ...

... Terminator and eating a delicious chocolate brownie in a modern Saigon cinema to having a freshly barbecued shrimps at dusk on the beach near Hoi An lit only by the scattering of small oil lanterns. I had once solitary **** time in Vietnam when my camera was stolen in Hanoi, but it didn't take long for my faith in the wonderful Vietnamese to be restored when a motorbike taxi driver offered to take me back to my hotel ...

... booked a massage.<br><br>"The Massage'<br>After first having a foot massage, we went into the massage rooms. Looking up at the ceiling there was a 'hand rail'. This did not bode well. As feared, at one point, the young lady performing the massage stood on your back steadying herself from the ceiling handrail. A 'torturous' experience. As Carol was in a different room to me, I was offered an 'extra service' that I politely refused!<br>After the massage we could use the jacuzzi ...

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... a plate of spring rolls (I do admit that despite being sick of Vietnamese food, Vietnamese spring rolls still hit the spot). Unfortunately, I had made the mistake of wearing my infected contact lenses all day, and my eyes hurt worse than they had thus far and I could barely keep them open when around any sort of light. I had to call it an early night, leaving Tom at the bar alone at 9:30. <br><br>Monday morning I woke up and told Tom to head to the tunnels without me. My eyes felt ...

... last visit. The Palace had fantastic views, just as we remembered, so we spent a few hours sampling the Vietnamese beers and appreciating the skyline. <br><br>It was our last night in town, but we were all pretty beat and had to get up early to catch our respective buses the next day, so we ate dinner and hit the hay early. Ma and Pa were planning to head into the mountains to the city of Dalat, while Pike, Konrad, and I opted for the beach and the town of Mui Ne. <br>

... br>On the first day we headed to the beach and found unspoilt white sands and blue waters surrounded by palm trees and overlooking some islands.... lush!<br>That night I hopped on the back of Colm's moped to go back to the port to pick up Arron who was travelling a day behind us... this was a funny journey.... Arron on the back of Olly's moped which struggled anyway going up the hills never mind with Arron and his backpack on it.... and then Colm's moped decided to break down.... in the dark ...

... have 2 children, and have all government benefits taken away if they want to have three.<br><br>After this we headed South down the country stopping for a few hours in Hue, the site of the Demilitarization Zone where most of the battles in the Vietnam - American war had taken place. The city itself was really old, with a huge palace in the middle surrounded by a moat. We had a quick look around and then caught another bus down to Hoi An. This is the shopping / tailor capital of ...

... quickly disappear through a hatch like this in the floor (which he/she would cover with leaves to cover his/her tracks). We were allowed to have a go at climbing into the hatch ourselves- my God it was a tight fit - especially when you enclosed yourself within it. <br><br>We then moved on to a demonstration of some booby traps the guerillas used including a tiger trap converted for use against American G.I.s - basically a huge, camouflaged swinging trapdoor inlayed with sharp ...

So after our walkabouts yesterday, we hit up a few museums today, including far too much walking for our very short legs (well, mine anyway).<br><br>First stop was the eerie, but thoroughly interesting, 'Reunification Palace' - it was the symbolic site of the old South-Vietnamese government, and the 'Presidential Palace' as it used to be called, was the first landmark to be attacekd by the Revolutionary forces when they stormed the city on that famous ...