Dear all, We have had two fab days in the southern city of Saigon. We had a dreadful bus journey over night and arrived at 5am. The city however was already buzzing with scooters everywhere, so despite the lack of sleep we felt reinvigorated. We immediately booked on a tour to the Cu Chi tunels, a stronghold of the Viet-Cong during the Vietnamese war. We got to try out the original miniature entrance holes that were no bigger than a sheet of A3 paper! We saw boo...

Hello again! We have spent the last few days in the beautful city of Nha Trang in the south of Vietnam. We have to admit that we have really enjoyed relaxing here! the day that we arrived we cycled to the hot spring and mud spa, and for 3 pounds we had a mud bath, hot mineral shower, hydrotherapy shower, mineral bath and then spent the afternoon in the lovely swimming pools. Today was spent on the beach, soaking up the sun and swimming in the warm South China S...

Hello Again, We have spent the last few days in the historic city of Hoi An. We took the train from Hue to Danang along what is considered to be one of the best train routes in the world. Our train passed rice fields and mountains and trundled precariously along cliff edges while we looked out to sea. From Danang we hired a taxi to drive the short distance to Hoi An. We hired bicycles for the first day and explored the surrounding area, we had a lot of fun seei...

Hello, We have spent the last two days in Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam. The weather has been a bit groggy but its still quite warm. Yesterday we visited the imperial city, in Dales words it was 'crumbly'. The city was held within large walls and had a beautiful Emperors palace in the centre of the grounds. Parts of the city have been restored giving you an idea of what it would have looked like before its decline. We went to book our tickets at train stat...

Hello all! We have just got back from a trip around the beautiful Halong bay, the scenery was so stunning, even with the weather being a bit on the cloudy side! We took a two day boat trip around he limestone casts of the bay on a rather small and 'cosy' old wooden junk boat. We think our trip was the budget option, as our boat pulled up to the floating villages to collect supplies such as toilet roll, fish for our dinner and clean water before we set off! On t...