After grabbing some breakfast off one of the street sellers we jumped aboard our bus to the Mekong Delta. After 3 hours on the bus we finally arrived in Ben Tre where we hopped on to a boat and sped across the Mekong River where we had to get on to some smaller boats in order to be able to navigate the network of tiny backwater canals. This part of the journey was really interesting and got me snapping away on my camera. After 15minutes we got off the boat and wa...

Dalat had been fairly cool and wet and so when we reached Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh city as it is now called, the heat came like a slap in the face. Finding somewhere to stay was a pain in the neck as everywhere seemed to be beyond our $10 a night budget. One place that had a room that didn't tug the purse strings was down some dingy little alley, there was no way we were walking there at night! Another hotel showed us a room that looked like a prison cell. When we ...

we got to Da Lat and to be honest when we first saw the town we were quite dissapointed. exept for the big lake in the middle its quite a boring place with none of the views or exitment of sapa or mcloud ganj. however we did warm to it a bit more.after consulting the holy bible that is lonely planet we found that the only way to see anything good in these parts is to hire a moto. and so we did....with me as the easy rider of course. the next day we set out on ou...

Em: We arrived in Quy Nhon after a rather chilly 5 hours on a bus as for once the air con was actually working properly and we were wearing t shirt and shorts. On the way we'd got chatting to a father and son from Slough and upon arrival decided to share a taxi to where they were going to stay in hope that they had a free room for us. But they didn't and so off we went to find the infamous 'Babara's Backpackers' which is run by an aussie lady. The place was not w...

Hoi An was next on our tour and so we took the 6 hour bus from Hue. We arrived just after 2pm and were lured in to a hotel that had a swimming pool, what with there actually being scorching sunshine in Hoi An as opposed to the rain at Hue. There are tailors everywhere in the town, in fact it's impossible to walk 50m without there being one but we decided that being the poor little travellers that we are we wouldn't be having any silk pyjamas or suits made. Instea...