We arrived in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) at around 6 in the evening & were lynched by the hotel touts as usual. We found a classy establishment called the Titi Hotel which was $10 a night, altho it was walking through someones house to go up to our room as the family were always downstairs with the kids & dogs! Saigon is like a more western version of Hanoi, just as busy but loads more pubs & restaurants & more tourists. The first day we took ...

Mui Ne is really peaceful & quiet (bar the buses and motorbikes honking every now & then!). There are no sellers trying to get you to buy sunglasses/fruit/crisps/books/sweets/cigarettes and so on along the beach. The beach is lined with palm trees and covered in all different types of sea shells and tiny crabs who dig little holes in the sand to live in (we thought these were snake holes at first!). It is pretty much paradise apart from I was bitten ov...

The bus journey down to Nha Trang was horrible. It was 11 hours long & all in upright seats, you could tilt them back but it still wasn't comfortable. You couldn't sleep as the bus drivers are all over the place & the roads aren't even plus they are forever beeping their horns & every time there was a toilet break all the lights came on on the bus! We arrived around 7am & the bus driver stopped outside some hotels in the backpackers district &a...

After a four hour bus journey we arrived in Hoi An in the afternoon & the sun was shining! We had dinner on the first night & decided to have "a quick look" in one of the tailor shops down our road. We came out 30 quid worse off but for that Charlie got a winter coat & I got a jacket made. The next day we took an organised trip up to the Cham Ruins. It looks like Angkor Wat in Cambodia but unfortuantely was destroyed alot by American bom...

We arrived in Hue yesterday & discovered there's not much going down! We went to the citadel yesterday but as we didn't have a guide don't really know much about it! It basically chinesey style building but surrounded by a big fort like thing, presumably from the war. Today we tried to have a game of tennis but the tennis courts didn't open til 4, then we tried to watch a water puppets show but that didn't start til 6.30 so we have been bumming around eating ...