Where to begin. Where would you begin? Where it is I am? What was it I was after? I'll figure it all out soon. I must admit that in order to write these blog posts, which are becoming less frequent, I tend to drink a few brews beforehand. Nothing wrong with that . Today, It happens to be a bottle of wine and a few beer to keep me going throughout the task. But there is something special to be noted here, the wine that I drank was from De Lat, the mountain city which I am presently residing. Only for a few days though and then off to the sandy beaches of Nah Thrang to dive the wodnerful coral that exist there. It is Vietnam's prime dive spot. Although I am new to this diveing thing I have no doubt that it will stick with me but you don't want to hear about that you want to hear about the the bigger picture.
Big pictures are good but the nitty gritty is where all the, well, nitty gritty is at and we all know that is the good stuff.
I arrived in Vietnam 7 days ago after a 42 hour bus ride through Indonesia. To be honest the bus ride was fine, long but really not at all that bad. What made it longer than it's supposed 36 hours was that 4 hours in the steering went and they dropped us at a restaurant and just left. It took a few hours of me drinking beers by the side of the road to ask our fellow bus mates what the heck was going on. We all turned out to be great friends, things happen this way if you are to spend two days on a bus with people. I would post picture of this but my memory card from Indonesia is a bit bugged, I have recently bought a new one and am sharing with you a few great images that I have captured since arriving in Vietnam. That may have been a long long run on sentence, but if I may, I blame the wine.

So I hit Vietnam after a 42 hour bus ride and a massive hangover. To be honest when I say hangover I really just mean I am a bit dehydrated because it is 35 degrees even at night and the humidity is enough to drown cats' in my sweat. For the record I would never drownd a cat but being unsure of all the random meats I eat I may have eaten one. We will save the random meats for another time because I could easily be a vegitarian.

Many people come to Vitenam to party which is different from where I have been prior to this. Where I was before did not have bars or parties, but that is no problem to me, it just makes me a bit, well, hungover during my outings.
Another thing I must point out here is that I have been travelling for 5 months, well maybe 4 and a bit but who is counting? Are you? why would you? Do you miss me? I didn't think so. POint being is that I don't need to DO somthing everyday. Sometimes it is enough to just get a tea and sit and read a do nothing.

SO back to the main point whatever that is. I arrived a week ago in Saigon. I visited the war museum which was more than intense. What went on here 30 years ago is unbelievable, really it is. So much destruction and things that are so fucked up I cannot even begin to put them into words. Excuse my language there but really it is messed up.
From there I went to tunnels built by the Viet Cong in order to fight the war against the so called liberators. I won't go into this, I do not know enough about the history to make any kind of statment. I did though take advantage of the possibility to shoot an m-16. It was fun.


The tunnels were built and lived in for months and the were barely big enough for me to fit even after being inlarged for tourists. I cannot begin to imagine living in the for long periods. The trap set up by the Viet Cong were too much as well. Such grusome death must have taken place. I am sorry for anyone on either side to have gone through it. Here is a picture of me trying to fit into one of the tunnels, the traps set and the mounds in which they disguised the breathing holes in order to have air underground.



I left Saigon to do a mekong tour. Everything in Vietnam is a tour. You pay in American money and you do a planned visit. This is very different from what I am used to.
The mekong is a river running from China down to Loas and Cambodia and Thailand, it also passes through Vietnam which is where it hits the sea. I visited a river market, the biggest one in the south of Vietnam, intense. Sarah had her Ipod stolen the night before and so we started drinking at 7:30 a.m. to sooth our minds
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From there I hit up Mui Ne, a coastal town famous for it's fish sause. Honestly it smelt like cat food but what the hell. The beach was lovely and they had massive sad dunes which I visited and rented a slide in order to go sliding down the dunes. The piture on top is me at the dunes.
This is the town of Mui Ne. A fishing town if the comment about being famous for fish sause did not give that away. I met this great kid where we were staying and he and I become bud for the time I was there, soooooo cute.



I am runing out of will to write but I hope you enjoy the post . I am sorry again that it has taken me so long to pound this out, But I am happy and healthy, living and loving. Diving on the beach of Nah thrang is next and I am more than excited. I am hiking up a volcano tomorrow but no tour so I will most probably get lost but still have a great time. the possibility to see wild horses and elephants is big, I am excited.