.........The ten of us hired a mini bus to get us to the border, about 10 km from the border we stopped and had to hire a tuk tuk to take us across the border and to the nearest bus station on the other side, There were many tuk tuks and we bartered for nearly and hour to try and get the price down from 4 dollars each to 3 dollars. While we bartered we heard 3 landmines go off as they were clearing them nearby.We needed a tuk tuk to go over the border not just to...

we got to saigon at 5 in the morning and found somewhere to stay we were directed down a tiny dirty cockroach ally and found a place which was suprisingly clean. Saigon was a bit like bangkok lots of motorbikes and kids trying to sell you everything from lighters to drugs We booked up a trip to the cu chi tunnels that were used by the viet cong in the war our guide was very good having been in the war, simon went to the shooting range and shot an m...

We got to nha trang about 7 and found the lotus hotel the place is more geared up for tourisum and has a beach with crystal clear waters, where we spent the day sunbathing and got burnt. We found a really nice place to eat and simon kept going on about how nice his spicey prawns were we spent the next day out of the sun and went to the same place to eat so simon could show me how good the prawns were We went on a island boat trip, and did some snork...

we got to hoi an and found a hotel ( hoa my) the best one yet , and went for a walk about, the place was quite small but really beautiful, there was a fishing port and lots of olde worldy houes and restarauts along the river. we were getting behind scheduale so only stayed a short while befor moving on to nha trang

We got to hue and found a hotel called hong thiene which had a tv, mini bar and aircon. the area was beautiful and the people very friendly a total contrast to vinh, there was loads of nice bars and restarunts by the side of the river, arsanal were playing on tv so we watched it in the hotel. the next day we were pestered by motorbike and cyclo drivers so much that we started to ignore them so they would leave us alone. We went to the forbidden city home o...