The heat is on in Saigon

Chao,

So we are finally in Saigon! and i can't stop singing that song from Miss Saigon. This place is actually mental busy, there are more mopeds than population of Australia, or something like that.
So far so good, loving Vietnam and the people and.....the bread! Thank the lord the French colonized this place! Although i'll probably put back on all weight lost through copious amounts of carbs.
So just to start off with, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh city absoulutely knackered from the bus journey from Cambodia, over the border (straightforward) and into this bustling place - tired, hungry and riddled with bedbugs. Some dirt hole in Cambodia gave us that freebie before we left, i shall name and shame in case anyone ever is in the area - "Sunday Guesthouse" Phnom Pehn. Anyways, Adam has suffered this before in Oz (maybe he never got rid of them.....) jokes, but i have never had the joys. I transformed into Kim from How clean is your house? or...Aggy, whichever the skinny one is.....and bypassed another bug ridden hostel to find a clean place on Bui Vien street. We put ALL of our belongings into the wash, all clothes and bags, and scrubbed ourselves clean. So far no sign of the critters, 17 quid later in laundry bills that is.
First day was spent walking around and getting our bearings, which is what we always do in the cities, we visited 3 museums, fairly interesting albeit slightly repeatitive. The second day we visited the war museum which was very good, completely anti american and french, gotta love that right? I don't know ALL the facts of the Vietnam war so it may have appeared one sided but i'm pretty sure from what i've learnt - it was all america's fault and they are dumb/ignorant fools. The museum had some of the old war aircraft and tanks outside, took some photos for my grandad to look at, may post them on here later.
Today we visited the Cu Chi tunnels, this was an amazing trip. The tunnels were dug out actually when the french began colonizing but were fanously used during america-vietnam war and when you see them, you realise how they mananged to outsmart the GI's and endure the war. We saw old boobytraps they built and learnt how they survived in the tunnels, they lived for periods of up to 3 months down there without coming to the surface once. All together they occupied the tunnels for around 2years, men and their families lived down there. I'm claustrophobic so i didn't venture into the tunnels which some have been widened for tourists but you still have to crouch and its very dark. Adam went down these ones and then went on to the original tunnels which he had to crawl through on his hands and knees. Apparently the air is very stuffy, its pitch black in places and scary! I can't imagine going down there for 5 minutes let alone living there for 2 years, but thats how the people of Cu Chi survived the war and good on them.
Tomorrow we head off to Muine, on the coast, more beach time! Then Da Lat (hillstation in the mountains) then Na trang which has a beautiful coastline apparently.
We are in 'Nam for a month and have a new SIM card therefore a new number whilst we are here, if you want the number the just inbox us on FB.
Until next time......platoon......over and out
Amy xxxxx