After a couple of days chilling in the sun on the beach in Nha Trang we had another night bus to catch to Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon (its called both as it has been named by the Americans and the Vietnamese). We arrived at about 6.45am, with the usual hundreds of taxi drivers trying to get you in their cab when they know your hostel is literally two minutes walk away. So we said no to them and like usual the hostel was just over the other side of the park. ...

We woke up this morning and had planned to go a waterfall at a place called Ba Ho. It is 35km away so we decided to rent 2 mopeds and ride there 2 on each…. Tim and David on one, Ben and Lloyd on the other. This was the cheapest way and cost us about £2 each… including petrol! The hostel manager showed us on the map how to get there, which was along the coast…. With amazing views! Then around a mountain and down a few dirt tracks until we got to Ba Ho...

We arrived in Nha Trang at 6am and couldn't check in to the hostel til 11 so went straight to the beach. It was warm already and Lloyd tried to get some sleep whilst Ben and Tim went straight in the sea! The waves were pretty big… about 4 foot! Jumping in them and diving over them was really fun and woke us up! If one crashed on you it threw you about and tossed you under the water. We played a bit of volleyball with the locals… who were really really good...

Today we hired bikes and thought we would explore Hoi-An a bit more. The owner of our hostel, Steve, is English and showed us a good route to go on the map so we followed that. It took us through some villages where the first interesting thing we saw was a home-made gym! It had bamboo sticks with circular stones on the end which created a bench press, a smaller one of these which was a bar-bell, smaller version again which were dumb-bells, chin-up bars, and a ...

Today we always planned on just chilling, got up at 10 after not really enough sleep, but we didn't want to miss breakfast which ended at 11. Free fry ups all round for breky, went down a treat. So much better than egg and bread!! We then went in the pool for a bit, it was so refreshing and so good for a hangover. We even made some new friends, the Hostel owners daughters… Rachel and Lalletta…they are only 7 and 5 but very cute, loved pushing us in endlessl...