Wasn't too hard getting up at 5 O'clock this morning - getting used to it now. Still don't enjoy getting up to the rain though! We met up and with Carl and Julie and were picked up for our trip to see My Son, that's not actually a person who we have never told anybody about but a nearby place pronounced 'mee sun'. It was an old city, (old as in 400AD) that has now been reduced to ruins, with a little help from a couple of bombs from the States. As it was really...

A lie in at last! Didn't surface until 1pm today - such a change from having 5am and 6am starts and guess what...it's bloody raining! AGAIN! Just had an afternoon wandering round the town today, relaxing in cafe's drinking coffee's and food - basically, enjoying doing nothing! Also rang home to wish Trev happy birthday and to speak to Claire's mum and dad too - it was nice after 6 weeks to surprise them at work! We then met up again with the Halong Bay crew ...

Got picked up at 9.30am by our bus to Hoi An (Should have been 8am, but we're now used to it). On the way, we stopped half way for some dinner and came across a young boy who collected foreign money - he had more or less ever single currency from around the world! We obviously became suckers and gave him a fiver. He was so chuffed and grateful - it was probably a con, but hey ho! Hoi An is a beautiful little town which was fortunately not destroyed by the w...

Up at 5:30am for our 6am bus (which didnt actually turn up until 7am) to go to the Demalitarized Zone (DMZ). The DMZ is the area of land around the Ben Hai River, that seperates the North and South of Vietnam. The area was the setting of many majow battles during the war and still houses badly bombed areas, bases and there are still hundreds of unexploded mines in the area so you really do have to stick to the path! First stop was the giant memorial statue of ...

8am start this morning and was lead to our boat by the most unfriendliest girl we have come across so far. Devil woman is her name. We soon set sail along the perfume river - in the rain...again! The trip took us to several tombs and pagoda's and when you have a guide who speaks very little English and doesn't accompany you to some of the sites, we and quite a few others soon lost interest! We visited Thien Mu Pagoda, Tu Duc tomb and Khai Dinh tomb. Soon it...