The move to Saigon was pretty easy going, back down the mountains and we were there. On the first day we arrived we struggled to find a decent guesthouse open at 6am- they were all really expensive or real DIVES! We found a basic room, got a few hours of extra sleep and then got up to look for somewhere a bit better. Luckily we were just around the corner from a street full of cheap back-packer friendly hotels with all the basics (including hot bloody water!!). W...

We travelled to Nha Trang by overnight train and it was definatly the worse one yet! Kaye's bed came equipped with 3 cockroaches (although it was quite funny watching her trying to catch them). Steven and I slept on the bottom bunk which was pretty bumpy but we made it safely to Nha Trang the next afternoon. The weather we were greeted by was beautiful and after finding a guest house we headed out to explore. There is one beach that runs along 6km of Nha Trang s...

The journey from Hong Kong to Hanoi (viet nam) took 24 1/2 long hours and 6 different modes of transport! We took a tube to the border between Hong Kong and Hanoi, crossed the border on foot into a scary Chinese town called Shenzen. China is extremely different from Hong Kong, everything in Hong Kong was sign posted in English, people were really friendly and most spoke some english too. However in Shenzen it took us almost two hours just to find the right bus st...

We arrived in Hong Kong at 7.30 am 27th September and were greeted by a gorgeous sunny day. Jet lag was on our tail but we managed to stay awake till 1.30pm (only because we weren't allowed to check in!). We had to wait in the local park (Kowloon park) for several hours in the baking heat with very heavy rucsacs! When we finally got in our room it really hit home that we really were roughing it!! The Chung King Mansion was everything we expected from a 7 pound ...