Saturday 26 December 2009

Cu Chi Tunnels, outside Saigon

We had quite an unbelieveable experience out in the woods, 60 or so kilometres outside Saigon. The underground tunnel system built by the Vietnamese was pretty sophisticated, with hospital rooms, kitchens, some rather nasty booby traps and extremely narrow tunnels! Today a lot of the tunnels and rooms have been dug open so you can easily get in and out and see the structure of it.


























Christmas is coming to Saigon!

A friendly fellow traveller, this one with a tv and stereo amongst other things on the back of his moped!!!


Christmas (or should we say America?!) is everywhere, even in a country where 80% are Buddhist!

A late-night drink in a Spanish jazz bar in Saigon!!









Friday 25 December 2009

Saigon- visiting the Independence Palace

Independence Palace, where in 1975 northern Vietnamese troops stormed and captured the southern governement and its American allies, putting an end to the war.


Ho Chi Minh




The crew of tank 843


Presidential Mercedes in the basement of the palace


One of the many radios in the basement


Jetfighter that dropped the first bomb on the palace April 1975







View of Saigon from our hotel window









Last days in Mui Ne end of November

Leaving Mui Ne by train for Saigon








Locals digging for crabs



The catch


Chris and his new best mate!

Crocodile dinner at Rung Forest Restaurant








Vietnamese post- slower than the Vespa!

Saturday 5 December 2009

L'anMien, Mui Ne

Behaving the only way we know how at a 5 star resort in Mui Ne- Chris's surprise for me; a night in a villa with a private swimming pool!












High tea and cake delivered to the door!


Chris contemplating his bank balance the next day!





Aino looking rather sexy. We're thinking of sending this to Haagen Dazs suggesting Aino as their new poster girl!
We thought Silje was the ice cream queen until we met Linda! (5 scoops of ice cream was then followed by a banana split!!)


Advents-stund med pizza, kamskjell og rod vin.

Sa tenner vi et lys i kveld, vi tenner det for glede!
Forste sondag i advent i Vietnam
(advents-stake lagd av skjell, sjostjerne og kvister funnet pa stranda)!

First sunday of advent in Vietnam!
(With a picture of Milla in snow in the background and advent wreath made out of shells, starfish and branches found on the beach)


Hayward's pickled killers for Christmas! I'm sure it tastes lovely with your cold meat and mash on Boxing Day!
Skal det vaere en skorpion eller slange i lake til middagen?


Wine for one night, five times make love. Now that's what I call a wine!!!!! Or a pile of old codswallop (bare tull med andre ord...)