Bryn There, Done That

Hello! Bryn here. Well, I have received the hard job (or honour) of writing our last blog of Vietnam, including one of the most amazing things we have done on this trip, if not in our lives. Prepare for a long one. Before I try and describe this adventure, I will start with where we left you last, in Hue... It was Reunification Day and Labour Day in the same weekend, and a large festival was occurring in the city. Translation: we couldn’t leave the night we wanted to as all trains were booked. Not normally a problem, however, this also meant there were no hotel rooms left. Mitchell went up and down the streets looking for accommodation, and finally came across a “homestay” with a room. I would like to think I have become less of a princess on this trip, but my goodness this place was horrible. We were led to a room upstairs in a family’s restaurant/home, with two rock hard bunk beds, no window, and a fan that worked about as well as waving a soggy Walmart flyer in your face. Not...

Xin chao, Mitchell here. Bryn and I spent 3 nights in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) center so we could take in many of the historic sites and still have some time for fun. The War Remnants museum was very informative but also very heavy stuff to take in. I won’t go into too much detail, but another name for it is the US aggression war museum and it’s mostly made up of photographs from the brutal Vietnam war.  The next day we went to independence palace, which was also full of history, most notably where a North Vietnamese army tank drove through the gates on April 30, 1975, ending the Vietnam war.    Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City  Games night! That night we made friends with some locals at a bar, enjoyed a few nice cocktails and played games. The next day was early rise to hop on an 8-hour bus to Da Lat. We chose this destination for something completely different because as much as we are loving the warm weather, some mountain air was ver...