Ho Chi Minh City

We arrived here courtesy of Vietnam Airlines a very nice carrier and but it wasn't cheap very much Canadian prices for this one, sadly. Arrived in Ho Chi Minh to find that Dave's bag hadn't flown with us but it followed shortly about a night later, being brought to our hostel. Spent only a couple nights in Ho Chi Minh going to the basic museums and bars that are scattered around, and had to do this while dodging torrential downpours that gave three raindrops worth of notice before they open the floodgates. Day 2 we went to Cu Chi Tunnels where the Vietcong hid in tunnels upto 9meters underground for up to 10 years. They came up to ground in the night time but still these tunnels are tiny and they had whole kitchens and bedrooms made beneath the ground. Dave and I went through the "Western" sized tourist tunnel, because we literally weren't allowed in the real tunnel because you needed to be under a 34" waist. After that we returned to Ho Chi Minh spent the day eating and drinking around our hostel. Randomly bumped into Niamh one of the Irish folk who had stayed at the Fiji house some 4 years ago, on the street in Saigon, who would have thought. We boarded our bus to Nha Trang that night and embarked on one of the worst bus rides I have ever been on. The bus was fine until they decided we didn't need A/C anymore but the creme de la creme was the crazy and I mean touched in the head crazy, Vietnamese man that began talking to me while waiting for the bus and drove everyone on the bus nuts by talking to them and being so hostile and creepy that it would make anyone loose it. Thankfully he passed out for several hours in the middle of the trip to give everyone some peace but was up nice and early to wreak havoc again. 13 hours later we arrive in Nha Trang and begin our day of beaching and relaxation with a nap.

Because Twango was taking to long to upload my pictures I'm going to use Facebook from now on. So here's the link for anyone not on the time wasting service we call Facebook, http://ubc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2093659&l=69ce1&id=21005310 .