Just to update you on our last couple of days in 'Nam...we went on a nice boat like the one in the picture (without the sails up though) and sailed around Halong Bay like they did on the Top Gear Special...the end. Ok, maybe a little more detail!! We were a bit dubious about who to book our trip through as there are many operators running boat trips in Halong Bay and they all look the same, btu we booked through our guesthouse and it was very nice! It is about a...

Greetings avid fans of our updates!! And bored people at work too!! Well...where were we?? Aah yes, Mui Ne...pretty quiet place but nice to be beside the seaside for a few days, plus we stayed somewhere with a pool which was lurvely! So after a few days of lounging we got the bus to Nha Trang and had an evening there before an early start the next day and a flight to Da Nang. We weren't planning on staying in Da Nang, but it is only a couple of hours on the tra...

Finally got some pics up, and I think they're working!!! Well, hellooo everyone welcome to the Vietnam leg of our trip! We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City with some trepidation - The Rough Guide does not paint a happy picture more often than not and it perhaps put us on the back foot...not aided perhaps by the cheerless visa rigmarole we went through on arrival. Our fears were quickly gone though as we arrived in our taxi into the 'backpacker district' of Saigon. ...