Jon came with us for breakfast at the 'ABC Bakery' at 7:30am. Jay had ham and cheese toastie and Helen had a mango pastry, a pineapple muffin and a blueberry pineapple pastry.

We all got picked up at 8:15am by the tour guide, who took us to the bus. The bus journey took two hours, including stopping off at the 'Handicapped Handcraft Centre'. This was where a group of victims from the Vietnam War handmade beautiful art work including paintings, crafts and furniture. Their work was absolutely amazing, we were both very impressed and decided that we would come back later to buy something.

We had to pay an entrance fee of 80,000 VND each. The tour guide showed us various traps that were used in the Vietnam War, tunnel entrances and various left over ammunition bombs and missiles.

We approached the shooting range and our tour guide told us about the different guns available for us to fire if we wanted to. The three of us chose the 'M1 Carbine' rifle as this was a single fire rifle and was more value for money compared to the fully automatic machine guns. We had to purchase a minimum of ten bullets for 15,000 VND each (45p each), total cost was £4.50. We took our time shooting at the target board and enjoyed it.

After this, we made our way to the 'Cu Chi Tunnel', we were informed that it had been widened to double its original size, otherwise an average western person would not be able to fit in it! Our tour group descended into this original tunnel, the entire group got out of the tunnel at the first exit after approximately twenty five minutes, apart from the three of us and two other English people. We continued on through the tunnel which descended deeper underground to around 10 metres under. At the third exit, the two English people got out of the tunnel, whilst the three of us continued on. We came across a very narrow passage where Helen had to crawl through on all fours, previous to this point, she was able squat through the tunnel comfortably. After the narrow squeeze, the tunnel became wider and we started to ascend to the surface. When we had reached the end of the tunnel, we were all relieved as it was a hot, stuffy, dusty and dark place to be. We were all dripping with sweat and covered in dirt. After going through the tunnel, we were taken to what used to be a hospital bunker to watch a video about 'Cu Chi Village' during the war. This was a very old propaganda video from the war which was very biased against the Republicans and Americans.

The bus took us back to where we were picked up. As we wanted to go back to the Handicapped Handcraft Centre to buy some art work, the tour guide got us a motorbike taxi each. He recommended us to go to a closer one which was a bigger store. The journey there was crazy, our drivers were zipping in and out of the hectic Ho Chi Minh City traffic. When we arrived at the shop, our motorbike drivers waited for us whilst we shopped. We took our time browsing around and eventually chose a picture frame each. Jay's picture cost 75 USD and Helen's picture cost 140 USD due to the quality of the material used (consisted of gold leaf) and the fact that they were handmade. (These would cost alot in the UK) After we bought these, we went back on our motorbike taxis, which cost 80,000 VND each for the journey there and back.

We met Jon for dinner, who kindly treated us to steak and fries at the 'Kim Cafe' restaurant, this was because we let him use our shower as he had checked out earlier. The steak was very tender and tasty, it also had lots of garlic on it.

After dinner, we sat down by a street seller and had some '333' beer. After drinks, we said goodbye to Jon as his taxi arrived to take him to the airport as he was going to Hanoi, North Vietnam. Jon was a very nice, genuine and laid back guy to hang out with whilst exploring Ho Chi Minh City together.

As the night was still young, we looked for a USB stick for Jay and found one (16Gb) for 18 GBP. We also went to the 'Vincom Centre' shopping mall. This was a very posh mall with many designer shops, we treated ourselves to something more affordable which was some Swiss ice-cream at a place called ' Snowee Creamery'. Jay had a large size biscuit ice-cream with Tim Tam (like penguin chocolate), chocolate chip, chocolate sauce and a waffle cone which cost him 80,000 VND (£2.10). Helen had a regular size strawberry cheesecake ice-cream with whipped cream and chocolate chip cookie which cost her 50,000 VND (£1.60). Needless to say, they were delicious!