10th Dec: Arrived fairly late so not really enough time to explore so just had some noodles and an early night.11th Dec: Got up early and headed to the War Museum, which was built on the former U.S Information Centre! Very interesting, but tragic. While I was there, some filming was being done - apparently for an Australian TV hosted by their Miss World. Then I headed to the Cu Chi Tunnels, where there are 200km of tunnels, which were used by the Vietnamese guerr...

8th Dec I got up just in time for my bus journey to Hoi An, despite sleeping through my alarm clock and I pretty much slept the entire way through, but we stopped a few times I got out and took the views in. At one stop, we found a land mine! There has been Typhoon (Durian) in the south and some of the heavy rain had washed away the mud, leaving this land mine on show. We contacted someone who then called the police and by the time we left, the area had been cord...

HUE, 6th Dec I arrived in Hue, the former capital after a sleeper train and it was a lot more comfortable than the Indian ones! At around 7-ish, dumped my stuff and headed straight out, vistiting the Imperial Citadel, one of the Ngugen Emperors tombs (and checking out the tank display). Then for the evening food. I headed to a place called lac Thanh, where the owner is a deaf mute, who can open 5 bottles of beer at once! The food was again great and for a bl...

I arrived in Vietnam and got a cab straight to Hanoi central, than settled in to my room before heading straight out to explore. However, it was not long before I realised I was knackered from my lack of sleep and went back for a power nap. Awake and fresh I went for some food, no idea what it was but it was great! Had another look round and a cheeky beer.4th Dec, Got up early and went of breakfast at a place called KOTO that is recomended in the Lonley...