We are back in Phnom Penh after an amazing (but exhausting) 5 day tour of Ho Chi Minh City and Da lat, Vietnam. It was an amusing time seeing as though the 40 people on the tour were Chinese and Cambodian, and none of the tour was in English! Thank God for the few passengers who were able to translate enough English for us to know what was going on! Here's the wrap up:

Apr12 (sun)
- the bus leaves at 5am!! 12 hrs later we are in Ho Chi Minh City, the 24th largest city in the world, at over 6.6 million people!
- we visit some amusement park
- have some local cuisine for supper
- stay at a nice hotel (Caesar's)

Apr13 (mon)
- wake up call at 5:30am! Let's get a move-on!
- go to a huge theme park with a big crocodile area
- 6 or 7 hr drive through the mountains of southern Vietnam to Da Lat

Apr14 (tue)
- visit a couple of flower parks (boring!)
- visit a huge Buddha statue overlooking Da Lat. HUGE!
- visit the former King of Vietnam's palace
- visit a great waterfall which we had to take a manual roller coaster to get to the bottom of the valley where it was at
- took a cable car ride over Da Lat
- visit a market and I find Versace's latest cologne for cheap! (I've been looking for it for a good price since september.)

Apr15 (wed)
- leave Da Lat and head back through the mountains towards Ho Chi Minh
- visit another waterfall
- visit a mall in dowtown Ho Chi Minh City
- have supper on a big boat floating around the port

Apr16 (thu)
- return to Phnom Penh

For complete set of pictures of our Vietnam experience, click -->HERE<--.

Now we have the weekend to prepare for classes on monday, which will kick off our final four weeks in Cambodia.