TK we set off early for the cu chi tunnels to avoid the tourist crowds. The drive took us through rubber plantations and orchid farms which had been created since all the vegetation had been destroyed by Agent Orange during the war. The tunnel network was built in the 1960s 30km north of Saigon by the Viet Cong and stretched over 200kms and went as far as the Cambodia border. We were taken around some tiny access points, traps and subterranean workshops, and it...

JK - Today we flew to Saigon. A wonderfully busy and bustling city with a slight air of grand colonialism to it - but in a good way. While everyone else started the city tour Tom and I visited the Atlas Offices. Atlas are an outsourcing partner of Shepard Robson and do a lot of drawings for them. Thach (who has worked closely with Tom on a couple of projects) took us out for lunch. We then had a tour of the office, it was a little like the Western boss coming ...

Tk: we hired bicycles and cycled around town for a bit then went in for the first fittings of our tailored clothes, we were both very happy with the results, just a few minor adjustments. We then cycled to the beach and paddled in the South China Sea which was very warm. We then had our first Vietnamese massage, for Jess it was her best yet, for me almost as Good as the beating I received in Bangkok! This was our first free day for ages so we wanted to have a fa...

The day stared with a walking tour of Hoi An with our guide Hi. Hoi An is a lovely town all be it very full of tourists, but if you can ignore that it is beautiful with a lot to see. The Old Town is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and closed to cars which makes it much nicer to walk around. It is full of old Japanese merchant houses, Chinese Temples and old tea warehouses. The first thing we went to see was the Japanese covered bridge; built in 1593, construction ...

TK: "melly clistma" as they say in Vietnam! We hired bikes and cycled into the countryside, it was a good way to clear the head from the night before. We arrived at a village where we met a fortune teller who read our palms. She told Jess that she was married 2 years (correct), her husband was a good cook (correct), and her parents loved her very much (correct), but then she said that Jess was pregnant with a little girl! We were so surprised that later on Jess ...