Saigon and Mui Ne, Vietnam

hello everyone! we are currently soaking up some much needed sun in Mui Ne, which is about 4 hours from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh city. It's gorgeous here.. we are sad to be leaving tomorrow :( we are staying at a hostel called Vietnam-Austria House and its amazing.. the manager is super nice and helps us out a lot and the place is really great.. nice clean rooms, pool out front, and its right on the water! we met Amber and Hannah and have been hanging with them for a few days which has been so much fun. i think it was the 4th time we were able to meet up which was cool. before Mui Ne we took the bus from Phnom Penh to Saigon and stayed there for 3 nihgts. we LOVED the city... so much going on and tons of energy. we visited the war remnants musem (which was like 4 floors and lots of reading!); it went through all the details of the war with the states and had tons of pictures, artifacts, etc. it was really good ,very intense though and sad. we also went to the Cu Chi tunnels which are about 2 hours from the city.. they are an underground tunnel system that took 20 years to build starting during the war with the french, but were only used during the war with the states. they were pretty cool to see. they let us crawl through a few of them too, they were sooo small! they also showed us all the traps they used to use during the war... classic traps like putting grass/leaves over a hole in the ground while the enemy falls through onto spikes.. meanwhile the americans were using tanks and bombs and guns to fight. we also did some non-war things like buying cameras (i bought a normal one and kaylen got a great deal on a video camera which has been so fun to use!) anyways, gotta run for dinner! xoxo nomads