Took a three day tour to Ha Long Bay, which included a boat trip, a visit to one of the caves, a night on the boat, trekking on Cat Ba Islands, and then back to Hanoi Ha Long is lovely, it has loads of scenery and is very beautiful when you get the weather...which we did! The food was great and drinking wine whilst watching the sunset was great! We also spent a night on Cat Ba Island which was nice and we trekked to the top. Our hotel was also...

We managed to find a bus company that would get us to Da Lat in under 6 hours, which is what they orinally stated. We ended up getting there within 3 hours, and by which means was the driver was a total nutter and managed to get the mini bus round some serious bends without breaking...hmmm interesting! Anyway we drove through the mountains and had some nice views and got the opportunity to see the real Vietnam. Strange in some ways as you will se...

Hee hee the view is nice isn't it...this postcard is to those of you who are currently sitting in the office working! Mui Ne is a small place along the coast in Southern/Central Vietnam. We spent over 4 hours on the coach travelling here and arrived at 1am this morning. We booked into the nearest hotel, which was right on the sea front. This morning we have now found another hotel which is nearer the restaurants etc...see updated photoes for view....

Right where do I start its been a while. Anyway, on the 7th October we flew into Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City. The view from the plane showed how large the Mekong Delta river really is across Vietnam..any believe me it doens't look any cleaner from a distance. Once we arrived got a taxi to our hotel (Bi Saigon) and got dropped off on the other side of the road...well would you believe it, trying to cross the road with hundreds of mopeds heading towards you...