Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City late afternoon after an eight hour bus journey from Dalat. As with Hanoi, the first thing that you notice is the sheer amount of motorbikes on the roads - it's absolutely crazy and has to be seen to be believed!

On our first full day we planned a route that included all the major points of interest, and set out to explore the city on foot. The most notable stop was the War Remnants Museum. We spent a couple of hours here and received a lot of information about the Vietnam War; we would highly recommend it, although it is certainly not for the faint hearted. It was in fact totally horrific, especially the information and images regarding the victims of Agent Orange.

We continued our history lesson on our second day in Ho Chi Minh City with a tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels; a network of underground tunnels built and used by the guerrilla soldiers of the Viet Cong. The tour itself was a little disappointing (too touristy), but the tunnels themselves and the first hand information from a war veteran was quite insightful.

We were up nice and early the following day to begin a 2D/1N Mekong Delta tour...