After an early rise, we got ready for our bus journey to Saigon, we were unsure what to expect of this city. Hanoi had been so crazy we were curious to see if Saigon would be as mad or worse. When we arrived we were pleased to see you could actually walk on the pavements and there was less mopeds everywhere, and so far the city looked a lot easier to work out how to get around. Although one of the first sights we saw was a grown man peeing in the street VERY op...

Mui Ne After spending a week in Nha Trang we decided to move down to the next beach ... Mui Ne! It said in the bible (lonely planet) that it boasts the best beaches in Vietnam, as well as further out the is miles of sand dunes. We took the bus there which took six or seven hours, when arrived we were surprised about how spread out Mui Ne was, there is no central area for shops, restaurants and all the rest. Due to this we ended up needing to use a taxi to get e...

Well after a ridiculously efficient bus journey we arrived 5 minutes early into Nha Trang ... We had even stopped during the night to change a tyre?! We walked through the waking streets of Nha Trang in search of a guest house, after a taxi ride and a short walk later we arrived at the Perfume Grass Guesthouse which would become our home for the next seven nights. The first day we decided to hit the beach, we managed to discover Louisiana brewery which looked sli...

Well after our first experience on the night bus in Vietnam we arrived a massive four hours later than experience due to attempted selling of the DMZ tour and various hotels. We then experience more selling once we get off the bus for hotels and guest houses. We finally ended up discovering after walking round for an hour in the hot mid day sun, that Lonely Planet our bible had failed us! They had got the location of the guest house we wanted to stay in wrong. Oh...

After leaving Hue behind we headed to the undisputed clothing capital of Vietnam that is Hoi An. We had read a lot about the charm and beauty of this little Vietnamese gem but we may have been a little apprehensive of what was to lie ahead after Hue was not quite as ancient and interesting as the guide books made out. We took the day time bus that was going to take us approximately 5 hours as part of our open bus ticket and after it arrived late as usual we set...