My dad has always given me straight to the point advice without skirting around the issue. 1 piece of such advice includes the extremely annoying "well you know what to do then." This involves whinging about something such as, "ahh dad me knee is killing after football, especially if I bend it", - "well you know what to do then son...don't bend it!" Ho Chi Minh was our last stop on the Vietnam tour. The city literally hustles and bustles 24/7. It seems much mor...

Having seen enough crocodiles being roasted to last us a lifetime, it was time to pack up and crack on for our next destination called Vung Tau. The beach resort is highly popular with the Vietnamese being only an hour n a half from Saigon by speedboat. Unfortunately it also gained its infamy from a certain disgusting old man...Gary Glitter! We had arrived after an entertaining 4 hour bus ride from Mui Ne. The reason it was so entertaining was because we had met...

As previously mentioned we had rocked up into the chilled out beach town of Mui Ne. 5 nights were on the cards, but we had left Hoi An wishing we'd have stayed for 1 more...never mind though we live and learn, maybe next time around! Other than chilling pool and beachside, we decided to get off our backsides and stop bbq'ing like a crocodile! You may wonder why I would use such a metaphor but as you can see from the picture you can quite easily order crocodile ...

After a couple of days in Hue staying at the excellent Orchid Hotel (cheers ma n pa for the recommendation) and checking out the history of the city including the impressive citadel, beautiful pagoda (meeting the monks) and huge tomb of Emperor Tu Duc (hoping to meet Lara Croft), it was time to visit the place that everyone says "you have to visit when in Vietnam" - the little town of Hoi An. After just 1 hour of walking the streets of the 'old town' it was easy...

Dong Hoi was our next port of call hoping to visit Paradise Cave. The slightly weird experience of an overnight bus sleeping in seats that are nearly horizontal was interesting, with Walshy feeling that she had been cocooned and swaying like a baby, it's just a good job we aren't claustrophobic as there were Vietnamese sleeping in the aisles!! However, upon arrival at 4.30am we realised that we had just missed a huge storm which had literally brought tress and bu...