Our annual building project with the team fro “Project Vietnam” was due to start on 10 March so we flew out of Perth on the 3rd, for an overnight stop in Kuala Lumpur then on to Ho Chi Minh City. THis would give us a week in Vietnam before the work started. We made an early start,...

We spent a week and a half on the Central and South Central Coast, taking in Hue, Danang, Hoi An, Dong Ha and the Demilitarized Zone. The travelling was done by a mixture of train and bus, the former being very pleasant and the latter at least bearable. Train Trip Phu Ly to Hue We rose early,...

Day 13 Ho Chi Minh City 6 March 2010 Arrival at Ho Chi Minh was on time and we cleared immigration without a fuss. I’m not sure that the man even looked at the passport or visa properly. He seemed to be half asleep anyway. Once outside, we prepared for the onslaught of taxi touts. To my...

Day 9 Langkawi to Koh Phi Phi 2 March 2010 We were picked up by a young man as promised at 8am to be taken to the pier for a fast speedboat to Koh Lipe. The transport was a real eye opener, an ancient van with more rust than metal, decaying seats and a gear box that resembled an old tool box...

We have finally mastered the business of crossing the road in Ho Chi Minh City. It is just like the guide books say, go slowly and make eye contact. Remain calm and say “shit” quietly to yourself as you go. We took a tour of the Cu Chi tunnels. This is a network of over 250km of...

Here we are in cloudy downtown HCM City. Christine is currently swearing about the girl on the front desk of the hotel because she robbed us blind over a tour booking. We booked a half day tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels (Viet Cong) and paid $US13 each. Then we found that we could have got it for...