We didn't have any look in finding a bus to take us to Quang Ngai, so we had an early start and had to hail down 2 motorbikes for them to take us to the catch the local bus. Neither of us were happy with this as we didn't feel very comfortable with all our bags on the back of a bike, but the taxi's were really expensive. We arrived safely anyway, well when i say arrived, we had to flag a bus down from the side of the main road, luckily the motorbike men were re...

Arrived in Hoi An on a sleeper bus (it was only a 4 hour journey) in the evening and found a hotel with no problems. Vietnam is really cheap for really good hotel rooms. Once we were settled we went for a wonder to get our bearings a bit. The town was beautiful, its a world cultural heritage site and we could certainly see why, with narrow streets intertwinding in the old town and the architecture had a combination of French, Japanese and Vietnemese feel to it, i...

We arrived in Hue at about 4.00pm after the day tour of the DMZ very tired. Luckily we didn't have to bother looking for a room as the tour guide from Dong Ha had recommended us a hotel and we were dropped off right outside. We literally dumped our bags and went in search for food, (a fairly expensive curry) but it was really nice. Our first impressions of Hue was that it was a very touristy place and there didn't seem to be any sign of vietnemese culture anywhe...

We payed for a night bus to Hue as the picture of the bus made it look really nice and we thought that it had to be better than the night buses in India, well it was better but we still didn't get that much sleep. I was ok, i had a bed in the middle of the bus and although i couldn't stretch my legs out i was relatively comfy. Matthew on the other hand was not. There were only 2 beds left and being such a nice boyfriend he let me have the one where i would get a ...

From Hanoi we took a local bus to Ninh Binh, thats after we got ripped off by a meter taxi who took us 10 kilometres out of our way so he could get a bigger fare! The bus journey took about 2 hours, but i think it took 45 minutes to get out of the bus station! We chose Ninh Binh because it was off the tourist route and sounded as beautiful as Halong bay. On the way there the scenery was fantatic with paddy fields everywhere and as we reached Ninh Binh we saw the ...