From HCMC we travelled for two days into the Mekong Delta, with a group and our guide 'Dong' (which is the same name as the currency before you get any funny ideas) staying one night in Can Tho. We booked the tour with Bao from Welcome Travel, but everything was pretty much the same thing wherever you went in the backpacking district. A good two days, the Mekong Delta looks pretty picturesque in the photos, but it's serious river life, the difference between this place and further north will become clear in the photos we'll upload. We passed a huge bridge that had fallen into the water, quite a scary job to have to put that lot back together. We took a ferry across the bay to Can Tho which was an experience in itself, people ... read more

Wow! The only word to describe New Year's Eve this year. We're hoping to get some film online of the fireworks, but struggling with technical Vietnamese difficulties at the moment. More of Vietnam in the next update. After a rocky start (Qantas lost my bag-on a 1h15 min flight, remarkable!) Sydney was fantastic, great weather, great food and a great city. We caught up on some shopping, walked for miles visting the opera house, Darling Harbour and wedging ourselves onto a ferry to get back to the hotel with the other 500 tourists waiting to do the same thing. We headed out to the sticks one day to visit more of the family down under. Made it to Cambeltown and back without a hitch in time for Mum and John to have their first taste of ... read more