Day 11 - its still raining
2023年10月16日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Well, this morning's agenda includes more walking around the old town, hopefully the typhoon will die down enough to let us see some of the really interesting buildings, not worth taking photos of theもっと詳しく
Day 11 - market area
2023年10月16日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Day 11. Lunch before travelling to Hue
2023年10月16日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
After the old town we stopped at a brilliant restaurant for lunch before heading on to Hue
The food was absolutely stunning
Day 11 arrived in Hue
2023年10月16日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
A final few from the market before we went over the dragon bridge and on to Hue
Day 12 tour of Hue
2023年10月17日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Well last night ran into this morning, and today we have a rickshaw tour of Hue, assuming we all get up in time 🤣
Well it was better than walking, saw a few ancient building, but I wasn't reallyもっと詳しく
Day 13 saigon here we come
2023年10月18日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Today we fly to Saigon, it's only about a 90 minute flight, so let's hope we will be out of the range of this weather front. The BBC world service weather forecast has just said that 700mm of rain hasもっと詳しく
Day 13 saigon vespa ride
2023年10月18日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
OH MY GOD !
I certainly wasn't expecting this, 16 vespa motorscooters arrive at the hotel to take us on a night time trip through some of Saigon's districts. It lasted from 18:30 until 23:00 and weもっと詳しく
Day 14 change of plans
2023年10月19日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Due to some ministerial visit in the city most of the sites we were due to visit today have been closed to public visits, so our tour guide has switched our trip to the Mekong Delta to today, so we'veもっと詳しく
Day 14 mekong delta
2023年10月19日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Well we arrived on the Mekong Delta and started with a sanpan ride along the river passing by the mangrove and palm
trees along the river bank to a brick factory, after that the sanpan continued to aもっと詳しく
Day 14 - Ben tre
2023年10月19日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Day 15 more Ben Tre
2023年10月20日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
More exploring the delta today, can't believe how hot and humid it is at 7:00. I think we are visiting a bonsai nursery today and this evening heading back to Saigon for a couple of nights beforeもっと詳しく
Day 15 war remnants museum
2023年10月20日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Back in Saigon and a visit to the war remnants museum.
Quite harrowing really, it covers all the war and the continuing after effects of agent orange.
It's ironic that there appear to be severalもっと詳しく
Day 15 pics
2023年10月20日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
Pics of journey back to Saigon , including a very clever dog !
Day 15 more
2023年10月20日, ベトナム ⋅ 🌩️ 28 °C
Went exploring the town and came across a bar, so stopped for a beer and meal. After the meal we were invited up to the third floor to an acoustic session, we were the only Europeans in the place andもっと詳しく
Chu chi tunnel pics
2023年10月21日, ベトナム ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Day 16, the cu chi tunnels
2023年10月21日, ベトナム ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
...another must do is this visit to the cu chi tunnel system.
The VC Soldiers used the network of underground routes to house troops, transport communications and supplies, lay booby traps and mountもっと詳しく
Day 16 lunch
2023年10月21日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
..stopped for lunch at chef Tan's cooking school, apparently chef Luong Viet Tan was a MasterChef in Australia and he now teaches about self sufficiency by growing the food for his kitchen
He teachesもっと詳しく
Day 16 independence palace
2023年10月21日, ベトナム ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
The independence palace is the place where a North Vietnamese tank crashed through the main gates to end the war.
It's quite an impressive building that is set back in time to April 1975. The roomsもっと詳しく
Day 17 farewell saigon , hello Siem Reap
2023年10月22日, カンボジア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Well it's goodbye to Vietnam and hello to Cambodia today, we fly out of Saigon and direct to Siem Reap and tonight it's off to the circus 🎪, no idea what to expect so watch this space....
Wellもっと詳しく
Day 17 - Phare circus
2023年10月22日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
..we all had seats for the Phare circus which has the aim of taking children from the streets and teaching them a skill and trade.
What a really good show, only an hour long but well worthwhile,もっと詳しく
Day 18 - Angkor Wat
2023年10月23日, カンボジア ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Angkor Wat Temple pics, it wasn't as crowded as I had been expecting.
Originally it was a Hindu temple but was converted to Buddhist.
Day 18 Ta promh temple
2023年10月23日, カンボジア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
The temple has been used in quite a few films,such as tomb raider. it's amazing to see how the jungle has taken over and kapok trees and strangler figs are now growing out of the ruins.
Day 18 bridge
2023年10月23日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Day 18 - bayon temple
2023年10月23日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
This was the state temple in the heart of Angkor Thom.
Day 18 - temples
2023年10月23日, カンボジア ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Well the schedule is all over the place but I think we are going to visit the temples today 🥴






































































































































































































































































































































































































The flooding was just mentioned in our news, hope the weather clears soon! Looks like a great trip although I don’t think I’d be eating much looking at the menus haha x [Lisa x]
Steve CatterallIt's really brilliant, weather not really causing a problem , get wet thru but change at dinner and again at tea 🤣🤣 3 lots of clothes each day