In Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) although we are leaving tomorrow running out of Visa time. Our time in HCMC began with a woman hasseling us and following us as we tried to work out where we were and where we wanted to go. Did manage to shake her off and find a nice cheap room. Went out for drinks managed to avoid going in the guns and roses bar. Today we kept turning up at places that were closed or were not what we expected. We still however managed to make it ...

Been a few days as on our journey through the highlands no internet and at moment cannot upload any pictures. The last few days however have been very eventful travelling with the easy riders was definatley a good decision. I recommend them to anyone visiting Vietnam. They showed us the culture, society and history of the central highlands and Vietnam as a whole. If this sounds boring it was not far from it the best thing we have done on our trip to date. We...

First night in Dalat went out for drinks and food with two people we met on the coach up Claire and Mark. We are both staying at the same little hotel one of the most friendly places we have stayed. Had great food as usual and lots of Dalat red wine. Next day went to the lake it looked nice from a distance but close up you could see people coming to dump their rubbish (not a great social consciousness). Went to a flower garden not seen too many flowers in Vie...

The bus journey to Nha Trang was a nightmare with my sunburns. Not helped by the person sat in front who when getting on the bus proceeded to cut his finger nails and then move on to his toe nails. Later he was scratching his arse, arm pits and making horendous noises not condusive to a good nights sleep. The bus itself stopped after an hour to change all the tyres took a good hour and a half it seems this is standard practice in Vietnam. In Nha Trang a beach...

Left Hanoi for Hue on the night train. It wasn't the comfort we had come accustomed to with intrepid. We shared a 6 bed cabin with some locals and many insects who liked to sleep under are matress. It took 17 hours, it was 5 hours late! Arrived in Hue at 3.00 so we didn't really get time to see a great deal of it but much quieter than Hanoi as a lot less beeping. Had a couple of drinks that night and met up with some auzzies and french and spent some time...