Saigon

We set off for Saigon on a bed bus. A coach full of beds! A bit wiered and tooik some getting used to. Fortunately we had 10 hours to get the hang of it. Our hotel is in the middle of the city that everyone still calls Saigon. It is completely mad. There are hundreds of thousands of scooters coming at you from all directions without a break. The only way to cross the road is to just walk out in the road and the scooters just pass around you. This is quite hairy on a six lane carriageway.
While in Saigon we visited the Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum. Aparently the Americans were very evil and the Vietcong were peace loving farmers. Very interesting, quite harrowing and very biased.
We went 10 pin bowling in the evening as Pip was 30. The madness continues in the evening as we drink beer on the streets in very small chairs with scooters zooming around us and hawkers trying to sell anything.
On our last day we went to visit the Cu Chi tunnels dug by the Vietcong during the war. There are a vast amount of tunnels over 100km on 3 levels. They have enlarged a small section so that us fat westerners can go down. Still very hot and cramped. They were very proud to show off the man traps full of sharpened bamboo for killing and maiming the American troops. Julia and I also visited a water puppet show which sounds a bit naf but actually was brilliant.