Nha Trang in a sentence: A much warmer Moscow. Despite saying we would never get the sleeping bus again, this bus was very luxurious - leather reclining 'bed' seats, wifi, A/C. The driver was much more professional with less honking of the horn, no stopping along the road to pick up random locals and letting them sleep on the floor! And the main thing was that it only took 12hours like specified so we were very happy :). However, Curt still didn't manage to grab...

Hoi An in a sentence: Arty crafty town that brightens up the mood no matter how bad you feel. Thurs 6th Nov Today we started our gruesome journey to Hoi An. So here's how it was supposed to happen: 13:00 bus to ferry, this was fine. Next bus to Haiphong to arrive at 3, was all good. Boring 3 hour wait until 18:00 with nothing to do until our bus to Da Nang, nope! Bus left at 19:00, picked up an unscheduled puncture at midnight (this proved to be the highlight o...

Cat Ba Island in a sentence: Heavenly little island surrounded by mountains, sea and greenery. Sunday 2nd November We found it very hard to get out of bed today after a late night, having to force ourselves eat breakfast because we didn't know when our next meal would be. Got a taxi to the bus station to start our journey to Cat Ba Island. There are many tourism companies around here that offer packages for this sort of thing, but there are also plenty of scam...

Hanoi in a sentence: Lawless roads filled with screaming scooters. Thurs 30th Oct Left Aoi Garden Homes today at 19:30pm for our overnight bus, feeling quite sad to leave such a great hostel and Chiang Mai. We really got to know our way around the place which is great because there wasn't really any need to carry a map around with us. Our transfer picked us up from our hostel and took over two hours to get to the bus station which was supposed to leave at 9pm...