So we’ve spent the last month staying in Vietnam and needless to say it’s been amazing. We stayed right in the heart of the city in district 1 or formally known as Saigon. We were there to experience the celebrations of the Lunar New year which was lots of fun. It’s like our Christmas, they have a week long public holiday where families make special foods and exchange presents and gift red envelopes with money in to the children. They have decorations of these beautiful yellow flowers and everything was covered in red ribbons. Everybody was coming up to us and shaking our hand wishing us a Happy New Year.

Our kind landlord gifted us their traditional new year gifts of Vietnamese glutinous rice cake and nuts and candied coconut and sweet wine and money for the children.

They invited us into their home to celebrate with them and drink Vietnamese tea which was really nice.

We took a traditional cyclo tour around district 1 and played the logistics game of how many people can you fit into a seat made for one. One thing about travelling around Asia is that you are in constant fear of certain death, my face shows my fear of this.

After our stay in District one we moved onto Vaung Tau by the seaside and the children enjoyed watching the fishermen clean and mend their nets and they enjoyed collecting and playing with many beautiful shells. By playing you should understand what I mean by that is, they were crafted into weapons of war and became smoke bombs, swords and hand grenades.

We did school on the beach

We found an awesome soft play.

We found a cute puppy to play with by the local farmers market.

After our stay in Vietnam we did a one night stop over in Singapore on our way to Brisbane, Australia and it turns out glamping was our cheapest option (It wasn’t very cheap) and picture for cuteness.