Day 84 (Thursday 28th Feb 08) Lazy morning but sleepless night. Checked out of our room at 12noon, had some lunch and used the internet until the bus came at 2pm. Waited around for a while as nothing over here is ever on time! Then finally told by someone which bus we were meant to be on and it was a sleeper bus even though we had only paid for seated. Soon realised that the bus was already full but there were still loads of us with nowhere to sit. Were told we ...

Day 76 (Wednesday 20th Feb 08) 7:30am bus from Da Lat to Mui Ne which Em wasn't looking forward to! We had to go back down the thin, long, dangerous road. The bus was overtaking lorrys & other buses on the corners etc. Finally reached the bottom to Em's relief. We then changed buses. Another 3 hours & we arrived at Mui Ne at about 2:30pm. It was a nice feeling to find ourselves in warmer climes again. Found a guesthouse across from where we were dropped...

Day 73 (Sunday 17th Feb 08) Up very early this morning (5:30am) to be ready and checked out for the bus at 7:30am to Da Lat. The bus journey started out ok and we stopped for lunch and a toilet stop at about 12noon. Again the bus journey surprised us as we thought the open buses would be full of backpaackers doing the same thing but its acutally mostly other Vietnamese travelling around. Then when we got back on the bus it wasn't so good! Very scary trip up the ...

Day 68 (Tuesday 12th Feb 08) Yet another early morning to be ready for a taxi to the airport as we were told the journey took about an hour. Arriving only half an hour after we had left we found it was a lot shorter than expected so had a couple of hours to hang around until our flight! The flight with Vietnam Airlines was fine but when we saw the short runway for landing with sea at either end it was a bit scary! Luckily we landed with no problems. Got a bus to...

Day 65 (Saturday 9th Feb 08) Another early morning to be ready for 8am bus to Hoi An. Bus arrived on time just after we finished a quick breakfast and we walked down the road with our bags and got on. We went round picking up from other hotels and then set off for Hoi An. As we were driving out of Hue we saw where an accident had just happened - a lorry had gone off the side of the road and everyone had stopped to try and sort it out, that filled us with confid...