By this time we finally needed to draw some more money out which we knew coming after blowing a massive £30 on our night out, naughty but was well worth it. We found an ATM then went for lunch at the Mandarin café, which was recommended by the book, we decided to try something different so went for some ''Nem Lui'' which is pork wrapped around the stork of a plant, then placed onto a piece of rice paper, filled with salad and veg, rolled up and then holding on ...

We checked out of Hoa's Place and on to a bus at 2pm, traveling a little further up north to Huè, which was formally the capital of Vietnam. Arrived in Huè after about a three and half hour journey at 7pm but didn't have any hostel booked up so for the first time had walk with the backpacks towards a hostel we found in ''the book'' for about 25 minutes. We found and checked into the DMZ hostel for three nights due to our first impressions of the place, which we...

COCKROACH WARS:- After two nights of ferocious sweating and stressing out, the battle of denang came to a victorious end. It all started when I was woken by Jeni at 2230 on the the night of the 20th, before she was woken by a large cockroach, a dark dirty brown with 2 inch long antennas trying to pierce through a plastic bag which contained some ''Richeese Rolls'' (cheesy chocolate, cheese and Chocolate in a wafer stick, ''THOSE DIRTY b******S'' jeni's words) as...

After a pretty restless nights sleep, we planned on hiring a motorbike out for the day (70,000d) to take a trip down south to a town called Hoi An which was 20km from china beach, about a 25 minute drive down the coast. Luckily it was just a straight road all the way to Hoi an because when the bike we hired arrived it was a manual scotter, I'd never drove a manual bike before so I knew straight away that it was going to be a challenge, especially with the road la...

Onto china beach, which is right in the middle of Vietnam and 10km south of Denang. We finally arrived at denang bus station after a 15hr journey at around 7am after what was definitely the most comfortable bus journey I had been on. We was instantly hassled by about five different taxi drivers all wanting to take us to our destination so decided on 200,000d with one of them. We had a room reserved at Hoa's Place which was recommended by the lonely planet guide b...