We spewnt the last few days prior in Saigon, whcih is a very busy, nosiy city. everyone here drives round on moped/scooter type things and everyone pips their horn all the time so it's very loud and very annoying. We spent a day at Chu Chi field which was where some of the Vietnam war was faught. When our guide wasn't too busy clowning around and doing stuff like this.....
...we learnt abit about the history and what happened during the fighting and were shown in the tunnels that were dug and shown some of the traps the vietnamese used to catch the yanks.
Thursday we had a lazy day to recharge and sorted out our itinery. Emma has to be in bangkok by the 12th so we are travelling up the coast of Vietnam then flying to Bangkok. we were hoping to leave Saigon earlier than we did but there was a big public holiday here for independance day so we had to wait 2 more days in noisy Saigon. Friday we did a day trip to the Mekong Delta where the Mekong river meets the sea. Spent the morning at the floating market..where loads of people on boats are selling fruit n veg, then saw how they make rice paper, coconut candy and rice chrispies. Had some local food (rice and pork) for lunch then a chill in the hammock before heading to a land market then home. Saturday we spent the whole day on the bus travelling up to Nah Trang so not much to say about that! Our hostel bill came to 2,000,000....but the local money, which is called Dong (dont laugh!) is 23,000 to 1pound, so it wasn't all that expensive.
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