Hey all, Arrived in Vientiane in Laos last night and thought it would be about time to update about our last few days in Vietnam. We took a 12 hour sleeper bus from Hue to Hanoi which at the time I thought was the worst bus journey of my life, but it turns out I was horribly wrong after our journey from Hanoi to Laos...more to come on that in my next blog! The sleeper bus however doesnt have real beds but seats that don't quite lay flat so you wake up (if you m...

After leaving Hoi An, we arrived in Hue a few hours later, a small city further up the coast of Vietnam. We managed to find a cheap place in the backpacker area to stay and dumped our bags for heading out for something to eat. We knew that we only had a few days here and wanted to make the most of it so we booked a motorbike tour with a recommendation from Ben and Lucy who did the same one about a month before us. However, this left us with one day and a decision...

Hey, Well we arrived in Hoi An on the Vietnamese coast late on Friday evening after making an executive decision to take an internal flight and miss out some beach resorts along the way. We have stayed here a few more nights than planned, mainly due to a trip to the hospital but will explain in a min. So we got our travel agent in Saigon to organise our accomodation here for the friday evening and he said it would only be $22 for the 3 of us. We turned up and w...

I'm sitting in an ỉnternet cafe in Hoi An at the moment, as we only ended up spending two days in Saigon, and this keyboard is really wierd so I hope you can understand this! After an easy journey across the Vietnamese border, we arrived at Saigon about 2pm and settled in to a cool little hostel with A/C, TV and a fridge...luxury! We were right in the middle of the 'backpacker' area and we felt a lot more at ease than we had felt in Cambodia. We decided t...