We caught a local bus from Ben Tre to Vinh Long. Getting the ticket was tricky as as no one spoke english, luckily there were some translations in the back of our guide book which helped. Well, the bus was going to Can Tho but the woman in the ticket office said it stopped at Vinh Long, it didn't. We realised as the signs were pointing in the opposite direction, Pete got the guide book out and pointed to Vinh Long, even though we said this to the assistant when w...

So the next day we joined the tour group, everyone was staring at us wondering why we had our backpacks for a days tours. We spoke to the tour guide and told her exactly where we wanted to go, unfortunately there was a little confusion as the place we wanted to go to is also the name of the province it's in. It was fine though she found a solution, we would join the tour group for the morning. This actually worked out really well. We got on a boat and crossed the...

Good morning Vietnam! We actually arrived in Ho Chi Minh in the afternoon after an easy boarder crossing and comfortable bus and headed to the backpacker area. This gave us the first experience of the traffic in vietnam, its mental! Once we got out of the taxi we were approached by an old man offering rooms for $10 and then a crazy women undercutting him for $8. We followed her through the dodgy looking maze of narrow alleyways to have a look. After walking thr...