So we were tyrekking through Hanoi with guide book in hand heading to find a hostel - the one we wanted was fullso we plodded on to another- room wasnt amazing but we stopped anyway, dumped our bags and headed to a cafe to grab a drink. As we were sitting there it started to rain, then it got heaveir and ended up being a full blown thunder storm, the street outside quickly turned from a road into a river, and we thought it was bad in Hue. This time the river ca...

So we arrived in Halong Bay (Thurs 9th) at 12.30 and climbed aboard our boat. There was 13 of us in total, 2 couples from Oz, and group of 3 girls from Israel, a German and Sweedish girl, us and two Americans. \and then of course there was our tour guide...he was called Son but for some reason he thought that was hard for us to prounounce so he told us to call him Mountain - that's what his name means in Vietmanese, so Mountain it was. On boarding the boat we h...

So after establishing we had reached Hue we got out our trusty rough guide and headed to find a hostel (this time we decided not to stay where the coach dropped us off). We found a cute hotel for $8 a night - it was absolutely perfect - nice room, two beds, aircon HOWEVER we had a few extra roomies....Jimmy and Debbie Cockroach! We did not become the best of friends - everytime we entered our room we would pop our head round the door - in most occasions they wer...

So we had a 13hour journey to Hoi An, Mel was lucky enough to sleep 12 of the 13hours whereas Gill hardly slept at all and because it was a night bus they turn the lights off at around 9pm so people can sleep and it was just Gill's luck that her individual reading light was not working. When we arrived in Hoi An we were dropped off at a hotel on the outskirts (tour companies always do this is hope that those who have not yet booked accomodation, just choose thei...

We had to be up very eraly on the morning of the 30th as our bus to Nha Trang left at 7.30am. The bus was awesome - nothing like in the UK - it was a double decker bus that had bunk beds in it - u were provided with a blanket and pillow and were in a reclining seat...all of a sudden the 12 hour bus journey didnt look so bad! Journey was asexpected, beautiful scenery, you felt you were seeing the real Vietnam. On arrival in Nha Trang we dumped our bags in the 1...