Now then everyone!!! DAY 1 Woke in Saigon at 7am got our backpacks which we had packed the previous night cos were well organised, and headed to the tour office to await the bus! When the bus arrived debs actually hugged the tourist woman as she had helped us loads and planned all our trips, although i still don't think she was expecting it!!! Got a couple of hours bus journey to the first village where we had some food and some local tea with honey and you cou...

Right then, Friday 26th (we think) we took a 4 hour bus journey from Saigon back up to Mui Ne. We chose to miss this place out but when we drove through on our journey from Nha Trang to Saigon but it looked bloody nice so we decided to take a three day 'break from the city' hehe Landed at 12pm at a place called The Watering Hole, a place we were directed to by a Scottish lass the night before in a pub in Saigon. It was $7 per night which we though was ok, h...

Hello everyone......it's been a while and we've been bloody busy!!! We left you at Ho Chi Minh City so we'll start from there! We spent the first day in Saigon booking trips and generally getting our bearings and then went out on the town where we found a young American bloke sat at the bar with a bottle of scotch. Sat drinking with him for a couple of hours and headed to another bar where we stumbled across some Welsh blokes we met in Nha Trang (which is ...

Hello hello hello mighty fine comrades!! 'Tis Debs, and I'm feeling damn fine this evening! Haven't been on the blog for a wee while because believe it or not…oh yes….I'VE BEEN BLOODY ILL AGAIN!!!! We actually cant believe it. God must have decided that my 1st weekend in Vietnam spent anxiously looking at the loo wasn't enough, so this weekend he hit me with it even harder! Turn away now if u don't want to know the details…………...

Now then everyone…….First things first - WE'RE ALIVE AND WELL, the typhoon didn't get us or anything!!! Didn't even realize it had happened, we just though Vietnam's countryside was always underwater!! Hehe! It seems like an age since we were in Luang Prabang, but really was only 1 week last Monday we had a good journey overnight on the bus, arrived 10 hours later like they said, and we managed to get a proper good kip on the back seats! Arrived in ...