We got picked up from Hanoi at 21:30 and dropped off at the train station..not really having a clue what was going on but we got shown to a 4 birth sleeper cabin. We spent the night chatting with a couple from England and managed to get some sleep. It was meant to be an 8 hour train but being Vietnam it was 12. We weren't really sure if someone was meeting us the other side but luckily we had a sign with our names on. A mini bus took us to the town of sapa..it wa...

Ok so the bus to Hanoi was a little horrendous..but it won't be the last one. I'll explain that later. We had the back seats as usual and most of it was bearable but the roads we're so bumpy at points (normally when I was just dropping off) where you we're actually flung in the air and slammed back onto your seat. Anyway long story short we arrived ok in Hanoi many Oreos later! So Hanoi is a hole..it's not my favourite city at all. However it is the gateway to ...

The sleeper bus from nha trang wasn't half as bad as we thought it would be. Had the back seats as planned and mart could stretch out. Arrived very early in hoi an had the usual mob of taxi men who we said no to them all. Asked the bus company to call us one of the green merlinh taxis (they are the good ones). We'd decided upon a home stay for something different..mart wasn't too convinced but I'd read into it and it sounded good. The taxi took us through big b...

Bus from HCMC to nha trang indeed was long. Got a normal bus for 4 hours then we had lunch and swapped to a sleeper bus..had to take our shoes off and put them into plastic bags when we got on. We we're on the upper level..mart struggled so much to fit into the little body shaped hole for your legs. Malaria tablets we're knocking me about a little so I felt like death which didn't help. Luckily for us the hotel was on the other side of the road to where the bus ...

Got our "luxury" bus to Vietnam..turns out it was no different to the cheap one we had the other day but they did give us breakfast and a bottle of water. Suppose one difference was that it did actually take 6 hours instead of 8. Got off the bus at the Vietnam border finger print scan picture visa check and carried on through to Ho Chi Minh city. What a difference it's crazy busy for a start...I've actually never seen so many scooters in my life..no wonder every...