After a hate filled journey by land and see from Phu Quoc I arrived Sunday evening in time for a much needed shower and then dinner. It felt like it was the best ever shower! Anyway, Monday I spent getting into the swing of life a'la hectic and to book a tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels for Tuesday. Whilst in the tourist office, the Aussie guys from Hanoi spyed me and it was good to them again as it meant one thing. Getting drunk! We agred to meet up later for my firs...

After a brief stop in Saigon I decided I needed a rest with no distrations so I headed to the quiet Island of Phu Quoc which in on the botton SW point of Vietnam. I got there on the 3rd December and was immediately hit by the heat, I didnt make things easy for me as I didnt book any accomodation and luckily I met up with another English traveller and I shared a cab with her to a place she had booked in the hope I'd have a room too. The resort was miles from any...

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon, as it was known prior to 1975), is the most insane city I have ever spent time in! Really, I'm not kidding it really is! I arrived first from Hue for a weekend of mayhem and lots of walking and my main aim was to get out the way all the tourist stuff within walking distance and then fly to Phu Quoc for R&R. I first went to the Re-unification Palace where democracy officially ended in Vietnam by North Vietnamese (Communist) tanks dr...

I arrived in the Historic city of Hue on 29th Nov after spending the night on the train from Hanoi. The City is a far stretch from Hanoi being a smittence of the size and the traffic not trying to Kill you as much. After settinling in at my hotel and stuffing some (western grub which was a blt if you were curious) down mthrough I jumped on the back of the bike and took in the Sights Hue had to offer including the Impressive waleed city and the heart of it, the Ci...

After meeting up and getting smashed with a bunch of lads in Hanoi we decided that a trip to Ha Long Bay would be a great idea. Ha long Bay is a UNESCO world Heritage site consisting of loads of small uninhabited islands. The guys I met up with consisted of one english bloke, some Kiwis and some Aussies and the previous two nights we got very, very drunk. Will tell you about that in my Hanoi blog. We drove to Ha Long City on Sunday (25th Nov) which is basicly a ...