Good Morning Vietnam

We're now in Ho Chi Minh City, the capital of Southern Vietnam, known to the locals as Saigon.
Our trip to Kratie was good, we went out in a boat and watched a bunch of Irrawaddy dolphins (pictured here) and a great sunset, I then played a game of keep-up with a few locals, though instead of using a football they use a shuttlecock type thing. The next day we went back to Phnom Penh and decided to stay there a day as two 7 hour journeys in two days was enough for us. We went to the Russian Market where I got one of my watches repaired for next to nothing and Sophie bought some presents.
We hired a boat for $5 each to take us on a sunset tour down the river which was lovely, I've taken plenty of photos, some of which I might look at putting up tomorrow as the internet is ridiculously cheap (though not that fast), we'll see how it goes.
We went out in Phnom Penh for the last time and met up with our cheeky little friend, Ley, who goes around trying to sell people books, he's only 10 but speaks brilliant English, when we said we didn't want any books he said "OK I'll come back when you've had more beers".
So then yesterday, we got a 6.45am bus to Vietnam, it took about 7 hours but the bus was pretty comfortable and a 7 hour bus journey is nothing to us anymore, just like cold showers, in England I'd dread to prospect but now we are so used to it we don't care.
Our little guesthouse is quite nice, if a bit small, though today I did see a cockroach, which ran and hid before I had time to kill it. Last night we met up with our Australian friends that we met on the disasterous Bokor trip, Mal and Simone, who introduced us to Bia Hoi, which is basically like a bar on the side of the street where they brew the beer and drink it each day until it runs out, a jug of beer costs about 8 pence. 8 pence for a jug, surely even MJ would buy a round here!
Today we went to a war museum, the zoo and a little temple, then went shopping at the market for bargains. Some Diesel jeans, a polo shirt, a billabong t-shirt and a few other things for under 7 quid. Lots of the clothes here are genuine too and just so cheap because they are made here. I've bought another suitcase to fill and hopefully have Mum and Dad take home for me when we see them at Christmas.
Tomorrow we are going to the Chi Chi Tunnels and on Thursday we move on to Da Lat.
I should probably mention the traffic here, it is unbelievable, I was quite happy to see the sights of just our block but Sophie wouldn't let me so we eventually did have to attempt to cross the road. There are thousands of motorbikes that aren't prepared to slow down, though they will move slightly to try and miss you. Red lights mean nothing, one-way streets mean nothing and all you can hear is a constant beeping of horns. We saw 2 accidents within a few hours of being here. Chaos.
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