Another early start but having turned the lights out at 9:35pm last night and not being kept awake by the thunderstorms I was feeling a little fresher. Once again we were herded cattle like onto a bus and shepherded to the boat dock where were boarded a boat – although … Read More
Tired and exhausted after our three days in the Mekong Delta we had two hours to get fed and watered before getting the bus to Mui Ne. Mui Ne is one of Vietnam’s hottest beach destinations. The beach was pretty nice with loads of water sports to choose from, but … Read More
This morning we got up at 6am – yawn – showered and made it downstairs just in time to grab breakfast before we headed off on the days tour. I’d been kept awake the majority of the night by torrential rain and thunderstorms that had not abated when I boarded … Read More
Finally a bit of time to try and catch up on some blogging and it’s back to Vietnam. After our day trip to the Cao Dai holy sea and the Cu Chi tunnels we spent a couple more days sightseeing in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City before heading off … Read More
Coverage of Vietnam has been temporarily interrupted to bring you this news flash. Reports are coming in that three English have girls recently landed in Australia. They have been wondering around Sydney for the last few hours in complete disbelief that they are finally there. Twenty-five year old journalist Jenna … Read More
After the wonders of the Coa Dai Holy Sea we boarded the bus and headed for the nearby Cu Chi tunnels. The tunnels were originally constructed by the anti-colonial Viet Minh in the late 1940 as a place to store arms but they soon became valuable hiding places for them. … Read More
After a few days of walking around Saigon we decided it was time to get out of the city and see some of the surrounding sites. Our fist stop was the Cao Dai Holy sea at Tay Ninh. The Holy Sea is the main temple of the Cao Dai religion; … Read More
Tomorrow I leave Vietnam so I though it was about time I got round to writing about my last three weeks here. I’m going to start at the beginning; our arrival in Saigon – a city that certainly didn’t live up to expectations and was possibly more busy, dirty and … Read More
I’m going to keep this short as I’m sat in a hotel reception at 7am, after being on a bus for the last 12 hours, waiting for Kat and Emily (neither of whom have any sense of direction or can read a map) to come back from checking out some … Read More
Bayon was my favourite of all the Khmer temples at Angkor. This temple was built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and was intended to embrace all the religions of the kingdom, including the Islamic beliefs of the newly conquered Cham (some more information on the Cham people … Read More