Ho Chi Minh City

After waking up at some god awful early hour in the morning to catch our bus, our hotel concierge told us that the 7am boat was full up and they booked us on the next one at 11am instead (thanks for telling us guys..). After going back to the room to sleep for a few hours we headed down a little fresher and took an hour's minibus to our boat.
We found out that the other bus of people had broken down, and we didn't get to embark on our 3hour journey until about 2pm (we were supposed to arrive at our destination at 3pm). This was no real problem as it was a time to eat/sleep/chill/tan. After cruising down the river we arrived in Chau Doc, Vietnam at 5pm - secured our sleeping arrangements for the night then hit the town...... except there was nothing in the town to do - so we went home again. The next day again we had to wake up at a silly hour in the morning for a 7am departure time - we visited a local Cham village and subsequently went through the river people's houses to a fish farm where the net income is a staggering $400,000 a year. Not bad for the old Vietnamese women who owns it. We then got on a minibus with zero leg space for 3 hours to a random city where we finished our triangular movement with a 5 hour journey on a much more spacious bus to Ho Chi Minh.
After getting a hostel room on the 7th floor with no elevators we hit the town. Sampling the local nightlife we decided to move on to the renowned "Apocalypse Now" nightclub with some Australian fellas we met in a bar (unsuprisingly). We have noticed a trend of how to pull women in different countries - in the west the male has to do all the work. When we came to Thailand and Cambodia the women approach the men but now in Vietnam I was taken aback when some guy comes up to me and says "This is my sister... she likes you". This was arguably too easy so for a change I actually felt bad saying no to someone. When the club closed we were talking to some Belgian people who Felly had met and they lured us to their hotel with the promise of a pool party (in hindsight; why there would be a pool party going on at such an early hour I do not know). On the walk there I was razzing out some french to the natives and I was pleased to hear that my English French accent was both adorable and very attractive (which is in my eyes better than speaking perfect French with no accent). We arrived to their hotel which just so happened to 5* called Legend hotel. As it happened, the pool was indeed closed and whilst Felly and I tried to persuade the security guard to allow us to go in; Walmo was cowering in the hotel lobby. After not even bribing seemed to get this untouchable guard to allow us in - we bailed home.
The next day was somewhat of a write off as we didn't get too much sleep the night before and Walmo was feeling a little queezy. We had a chilled evening and booked tickets to go to the Cu Chi Tunnels.
Today Walmo felt he wouldn't be able to last if he came to the tunnels so he stayed at home whilst Felly and I visited the underground tunnels - fascinating but we were both too big to fit through the last section of tunnel. Tonight we are getting an overnight train to Nha Trang - Vietnam's answer to Sihanouk Ville and Koh Phangan, a good place to chill on the beaches and party at night.