Early start to the day with a buffet breakfast of omelettes, pancakes, fruit and fried rice.

A brisk walk down into the city Center in search for adventure lead us through the markets and back streets around, what I have decided to call the “CBD” of Saigon.

Market streets with slabs of raw meat hanging out eagerly waiting a buyer. Tied up crabs bubbling away in their pots watch us walk while the bugs and fish jump around in their pots.

The heat is terrific you breathe it in along with the taste and smells of everything around you.

The streets are mad whirling circles of buses, taxis and cars circling each other with an even madder assortment of two and three wheeled cycles whirling around them, utter chaos and yet somehow it works, there’s an underlying understanding as if this is not controlled by individuals but somehow the machinations of a higher power.

A trip up to the Bitaxico tower gave us an unrivalled perspective of the vastness of this incredible city, 360 degree views with a sprawling concrete mega city in every direction.

A quick stop at an Adidas shop so Blake could get some socks ended in Kim with a new pro-tennis outfit!!

Discovering the subtle, yet mind boggling flavour of a oolong lai (iced jasmine milk tea) left me gagging like a opium addict for more.

I don’t understand how it can be so hard to find a store that sells maps!!! Hours we spent chasing down a place to sell us some maps!!

After nearly a whole day walking around Saigon we returned to the hotel and lazed about in the pool until some child started throwing up in the pool and we decided that it was time to move on. Back in the apartment we laid down the plans for the next few days and how to get moving.

Blakey Mitch and Kim headed off into the city as the rain pelted down as Blake found a seller for the bike he was after – a Honda Bonus 125cc.

Meanwhile I stayed home clutching at my stomach, throwing up and shitting like a waterfall! All night long the pains and cramps, the fever and flow ons kept coming only this morning have they relented and allowed me a modicum of peace and a shrewd of humanity.