Xin ciao Vietnam!...Good morning Vietnam!
Leg 2 of my trip takes me to Vetnam, and brings with it new sites, flavours, and people to spend it with.

Ho Chi Minh city. The capital of Vietnam is where we start, and after a verrrry long journey we were all so relieved to get to the hotel! Our first night in Ho Chi Minh was the last night of the trip for some of our group so we did what we have grown to do best and went in search of cocktails! Feeling worse for wear the next morning, our new trip began. We visited the Chuchi tunnels, one of the sites of alot of the fighting that went on in the Vietnam war, and spent the day checking out the huge markets, and like all of the open markets got dragged here there and everywhere by people wanting us to buy more and more. You couldnt even look at things from afar without someone starting to bargain with u for how much you would pay for it. Overall though i think the general feeling was relief that we had made it to somewhere with HOT showers and proper toilets!. Ho Chi Minh's energy was incredible and looking out onto the streets, probably about 70% of the traffic was motorbikes, soo many that we all became experts in traffic dodging...well we had no other choice if we wanted to get anywhere alive!

From the capital we headed the next morning along the Mekong Delta to where our homestay would take place. After being told that the Mekong was home to crocodiles, i was convinced that every log was going to come and eat me! The homestay night was amazing though. Different from the one in Cambodia...there was electriciy, but even sono TV! We spent the evning being treated to the most incredible feast and a local band who performed one too many songs...all of the local music in Cambodia and Vietnam is yet to grow on me!

I am currently sat in a hotel in Hoi An at the moment. Between our homestay and here, we have snorkled n the South China Se aand bathed in hot mud baths in Nha Trang, taken 2 fairlyyy horrific overnight sleeper trains, sharing the carriage with 3 other people plus and whle family ofcockcroaches, and yesterday ridden about 20k on bicycles tours delivering ice to the poorest o th poor, and then ending up on a beach for a bbq of freshly caught seafood. O...and also spent a little bit of money getting tailored silk dresses/suits which Hoi An is famous for worldwide...aparently! This is by far my favourite place to visit so far....it may be vey slightly because of the fact that the hotel has a swimming pool, but the Old Town here is sooo pretty. It's got a huge chinese nd french influence to it, with hanging laterns everywhere, and french cafes and uildngs scattered about the place.

This afternoon me and a ew girls from the group are heading tothe markets to buy things for our cookng class this, but ihave a feeling it's not goigto live up to the seafood here that i've eaten so far!