From Saigon the Mekong was relatively closely accessible. One of the things to tick of the list was a Mekong Delta trip, however after a few hours we were so bored and a bit disappointed at the extremely commercial and unauthentic tour. We had a 2-3 hour bus trip to the Mekong. Boarded a boat to have lunch down the river, the classic rice with pork and veggies. Of course a Vietnamese iced coffee was ordered as standard. Thankfully we only did the day trip and not...

After 5 days of biking we reached our end destination which was at the beach! After dumping our things at the hotel it was off to the beach and straight in to body surf size waves which was said to be bigger than usual due to the typhoon. With appetites worked up we had our first western food experience (pizza, pasta, cheese, that type of thing). Night market shopping was in order. Kat and Dai went back to the hotel clearly not wanting to wet their feet again (h...

A turn of events lead Kat and Dai (shall I say a cool British couple), whom I met in in a Hanoi Backpackers, to Hoi An. Meg found this easy rider guy she thought would make a good guide. The next thing we knew the four of us were sat with 2 guides (Thanh and Chuang) buying us Vietnamese coffee and giving us a sales pitch which we accepted and left 2 days later on one of the most memorable road trips... This was the start of our Epic bike run that started in Hoi ...

The 3 of us were up early and flew from Hanoi via Vietair to Da Nang and got a taxi to Hoi An. Hoi An was lovely with a tailor shop for any style desired, a buzzing market with the best food and 3000 Dong Bia Hoi (locally brewed beer without preservatives which means it needs to be sold within 24hours)...what more can one ask from a place?! A lovely river runs through it and has some French style to be seen in the architecture. Stayed in a more upmarket hotel t...

This river of the Dragon, one of the seven wonders of the world, was a 3 and half hours bumpy minibus ride from Hanoi and a paradise of sorts. Megan, Helen and I joined a tour group on the Halong Party boat, which was chosen as it was not as raucous as the castaway tours. We saw the "Surprise cave" (that's the original name of the cave) which was huge and had loads of stalactites and stalagmites with great views too. We went to the local beach to climb umteen am...