Part two: The Mekong Delta Halfway through and we are really enjoying the experience. Jean and Young are excellent riders and guides. Day Four: AM - Visited the quarry workers - amazed that one of them could keep cutting stone talking to his mate and not even looking where his hammer was landing on his chisel. A wood sculptor that made furniture from dead or destroyed trees. Got within a kilometre of the Cambodia border on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Received the h...

We had an early start the next morning as we had to strap our back packs to the back of each bike and make sure we were comfortable as we were covering a lot of miles getting to the Central Highlands. The best way to keep this trip from boring you all to death is to provide a summary of what we did over the 6 full days with a conclusion at the end of how we found it. Under this blog I will attempt to summarise the first 3 days as follows: Day One: AM - Visit ...

Everyone had told us that to get to Dalat from Quang Ngai we had to get a night bus to Nha Trang and then change to get to Dalat, so that is what we set off doing. The old man that kept our bags for the day pulled over a bus to Nha Trang for us, it was a really nice bus, but we were sat right at the back surrounded by boxes so we didn't have much room and coundn't recline our seats, so we thought we were in for another bus ride with no sleep. On the way to Nha ...

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...