With Dalat's adventures now of the past we headed to Saigon on the overnight sleeping bus. The inside of the bus has 2 levels upper and lower sleeping level with chairs that recline to about 85%.It was a rather speedy ride as we left at 10 and arrived at 4:30am in Saigon. As both Meg and I were forced to wake up and as the Vietnamese fortunately are early risers, we were able to get an Iced coffee from a street vendor and sat down to view the map. After getting t...

With Kat and Dai finally realising that Dalat is most definitely more of a must see than Mui Ne, we were all on a bus to Dalat to arrive 6 hours later. Such a chilled place, with more of Vietnam's finest bakery and coffee with sweet milk...perhaps at this stage I should mention that I had given up coffee about 3 years ago not liking the taste...don't worry, I've made up for lost time! We did a group market shop, prep, cook and eat together under guidance of our ...

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 ...