We'd booked up an excursion for the next day to take a trip along the Song Huong (Perfume River), with the bank of the river home to the Tombs Of the Nguyen Dynasty. We only visited one of the tombs but was the most impressive, the Tomb of Khai Dinh, with 127 steps to the actual tomb itself, and again lots of detail, the emperor was buried 18m underneath in solid concrete. On this tour we learned a few facts about Vietnam itself, the yellow star on the flag repre...

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...