Our final week in Vietnam was spent in Central Vietnam - in Hue, Hoi An and Da Nang. Our time in Da Nang was the least memorable of the three places due to the weather (it rained for the entire day making the hotel pool and beach sadly redundant!) - however, we used the time to have massage at the hotel (the first of our trip!), get laundry done (much cheaper at the local laundrette than the hotel!), and to watch insurgent at the cinema (again much cheaper than ...

Our time in Ninh Binh was awesome - for me my favourite place of the holiday so far - with beautiful countryside and limestone mountains to cycle around (accompanied by the friendly greetings of the villagers that we passed by). The region's jewel in the crown is its caves (known as Halong Bay on the land). For a small fee, you get to be rowed around a series of caves (some which involve significant amount of ducking!). The stamina of the old lady that rowed us ...

Ros here! We have arrived in the crazy mayhem that is Hanoi! For the last few days we have been exploring the Old quarter - without much for pavements, this has involved a lot of dodging of scooters, bikes, cars, puddles and street vendors! (an experience not for the faint hearted!) The street food culture is amazing - shop fronts selling food to the masses who sit outside on childsize plastic stalls. We got to sample 6 or 7 dishes on a street food tour - defin...

After an 'interesting' flight from Siep Reap on a propeller plane, we've enjoyed our four nights on Phu Quoc island - a place to chill out and relax. The majority of the hotels are located on Long Beach which runs down the west coast of the island (getting the best of the sunsets!) For the first two nights, we stayed at Daisy Resort. We soon came to love the views from our veranda, the full size pool table (once the German boys had stopped hogging it) and the ...