HCMC We took a night bus to Saigon (HCMC), arriving at the crazy hour at 5am to an already bustling city- the amount of people doing workouts in the park was just crazy. We found our hostel easily but had to wait a few hours to check in - always pleasant - not!! However, we had a productive day, we visited the War Remnants Museum which was really good but a little harrowing and saddening. It demonstrated clearly the brutality of the Vietnamese War. One of the ...

Arriving into Nha Trang at 6am was quite the sight... The beach was packed with locals and plenty of them were swimming!! The streets were already bustling so the city was well and truly awake!! As Nha Thrang is the beach capital of Vietnam, it would have been rude not to spend time at the beach!! So myself and Edda hit the beach for a few hours.. Happy days :) Nha Trang is really the Russian hotspot!! Two years ago a flight was introduced directly from russia to...

After a beautiful breakfast ( Hue Backpackers) we set of on our motor bike tour to hoi an!! It was with le family riders, which was run by sibling group of two brothers and a sister, not forgetting the mother who brought our bags by car!! I went on the back of Zak bike who turned out to b a good driver (He has lived in Saigon for 6 months) the journey was beautiful, we appeared to take a lot of back roads so really saw the countryside, we sipped on sugar cane ju...

Hanoi Well Hanoi as my first stop in Vietnam was such a great introduction, thrown into the middle of the chaos of hundreds of scooters, street food, street drinking and a maze of small streets!! I stayed in Friendly Backpackers which was great location, my first surprise was to learn the shower was positioned over the toilet... Compact if not slightl inconvenient..I was quickly told that this was the norm in Asia! I met some great people in Hanoi an an always...

Well the night bus turned out not to b the worst in the world and although some terrible bumps and shaking, I did manage to sleep a bit! To my surprise I woke up to the sun, first thought that I had survived the night, second thought, dam I missed my stop as its never bright at 5am!! Reached the point of well what ever happens it's fine by me, at 7 we stopped for breakfast, noodles, no thank u!!! At this point I knew I had to ask where we are and risk getting thr...