Saigon

Our last day in Nha Trang was definitely the most fun we had on the trip. We got up early and took a bus to the harbour as we'd booked a boat trip for the day that consisted of 4 different islands. We ended up getting a crew of crazy vietnamese who whipped out a bass drum halfway through and somehow converted it into a drum set, cymbals - toms - and all. We did end up getting to all the islands via their junk, and did some snorkelling as well as diving off the top of the thing and hitting their floating bar. I believe the word would be malarkey. Awesome time.

Took the night train to Saigon and arrived at 0430. After powernapping on a bench Stan, Kayla and I were off to the Cu Chi tunnel systems, an elaborate underground maze made by the Northern Vietnamese during the American war. They basically used this maze to guerilla pwn the Americans .. i could barely fit inside the tunnels so it's a marvel that the Vietnamese lived in them. No wonder the Americans lost. Also in saigon we discovered a mexican restaurant that served some of the best food we had on the entire trip. I kept the bus card... "Le Cantina".

On the 9 it was off to the Mekong Delta for a riverfront stay. This was a stellar part of our trip as well, it entailed a few hours on a boat crossing back and forth across the mekong, and a smaller set of trips throughout the islands. We were crusing above quite a few sunken American ships, pretty crazy to think of the warfare that was going on in that exact spot only 33 years ago. Stayed overnight in a French mansion, rocked some snake wine, played a card game called Backpacker, saw a rice making factory, brick factory, blacksmith, tile making, and a whole bunch more from a standard vietnamese lifestyle. Quite eye opening and very glad that we were able to go out to the delta as part of our tour.

That was the last night of our tour, so we went out for supper (which sucked) although on the way home a moto ran right into the bumper of our taxi, total force maybe 60 km/h . I was sitting shotgun and almost pissed myself laughing, the viet guy who ran into us was straight back up on the bike and gone. Maniacs. On the 11 Kayla and I went to the Diamond Plaza which is a 8 level mall with everything you could think of. We rocked some Pizza Hut and then played some pool/vid games and went to see Jumper, which was a great flick with another stupid ending.

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