Our trip from Nha Trang to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh) was another 12 hour bus journey, only this time it wasn't overnight. There is only day-time buses for this particular section of road, due to it being unsafe to drive along at night. So we departed Nha trang at 7.30am and didn't arrive in Saigon until 7pm!! It was a long day. We got plenty of stops for food and loo breaks and at one particular roadside cafe were highly amuzed by a monkey that was running around t...

The overnight bus to Nha Trang was long and uncomfortable. Lots of stopping and starting made it impossible to sleep. At some point in the early hours we were driving along side the sea and Ben woke me up to show me hundreds of white lights floating in the water as far as the eye could see. We still have no idea what they were. At 5.30am we were rudely awoken by one of the drivers walking up and down the bus shouting "Saigon?" "Saigon?" in a stupid high pitched v...

Our favourite place so far in Vietnam is the little town of Hoi An. It's very small and so everything is within walking distance and the tiny traditional streets are lined with shops selling amazing paintings, crafts and specially tailored clothes. During the 3 days we were here we spent most of our time on the beach….white sands and clear waters with waiters on hand to serve up food and coconut juice out of its shell. Our hotel was just as good, with a mas...

We arrived into Hue at 9am and stumbled off our sleeper bus into a crowd of people offering us taxi rides, motorbike rides and cyclo rides to our hotel, which of course was miles and miles away and we couldn't possibly walk. It actually turned out to be just around the corner and so after escaping the hassle of the locals we grabbed our bags and set off down the street. A couple of guys on motorbikes insisted on following us the whole way and kept repeating "ver...

So the first thing to note about Vietnam is that they show premier league football and on our first night we found a little pub (half man, half noodle) which shows football - all day everyday....Ben was quite at home here! Hanoi is a very busy city and seems to be constantly on the go. There are millions of motorbikes with a few cars mixed in making crossing the road seem impossible.... but once you get the hang of it its not too hard. Basically you just step ou...