31st May Today flew to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Only stopping here for one night and stayed in a lovely intimate, colonial style hotel 'Empress'. I loved it here and had the most amazing night. The roads in Saigon are crazy crazy crazy!!!!If I'd thought the roads were bad in Hanoi I was certainly in for a shock arriving here (triple mayhem compared to Hanoi that's for sure!) A great city though and wish that I'd stayed more than one day as I've heard the shop...

26th - 30th May Wishing we could have stay longer at Hoi An but up early and off to the airport to get our flight to Nha Trang. Nha Trang is cool love it already so I'm sure we're going to like it here. Checked into a guesthouse 'Mai Huy' along Hung Vuong Road which is only 5 minutes from the beach and close to all the bars/restaurants and shops so it's perfect. Everyday was here was enjoyed catching some rays and chilling out on the beach. There's a really nic...

24th-25th May After 16½ hrs on the night train we arrive in Hoi An.If I never have to get on one of those trains again it'll be too soon, they are horrible but saves on a night's accomodation I guess! As soon as we arrived in Hoi An we loved it, it's a lovely place and I'm certainly looking forward to visiting the tailor made shops. We're staying at a nice hotel called Thien Nga which has a small swimming pool and the view from our room over looks the...

19th - 23rd May I was warned about the crazy roads in Vietnam but I didn't realise just how bad they'd actually be! Within 5 mins of being in the taxi our driver pulled out in front of a minibus, two big trucks, almost hit a lady in the road while he was texting on his mobile, lost count how many bikes swerved in front of us and the horns are going off constantly! My seat belt was broken so a tad worried... but it wasn't long until Cheryl shouted at him, hehe!Yo...

11th - 18th May We leave Thailand today and travel to Laos.Picked up from our hotel in Chiang Mai by two motorbikes (we weren't expecting that!) it was so funny... between us we have so much stuff that we couldn't see how the hell we were suppose to jump onto the back of a motorbike with it all! Anyway someone managed it with our backpacks on and the rest hanging from the handle bars! Thankfully this was just a short 5 minute ride to the mini bus.Here we met up ...