The woman had gone out when we came to check out which was really annoying as we wanted to arrange a lift with her to da nang instead we had to get a taxi which was really expensive in hindsight we should have got a bus straight to hue but o well. We als wanted to go to a place called marvle mountain on the way but couldnt because we were in a taxi he also went a very long way round people always say demand the meter but we prefer arranging a price beforehand bec...

We arrived in Da Nang airport and got a prearranged lift to our guest house. It seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. We stayed in a house which had been converted into a hotel but it was just in the middle of an estate. We went to the room But the window wouldnt shut so there were lots of flies in the room there was also no air con so it was very hot. The next day we met with the owner and she told us about the town. Since it was far away from the beach and th...

We had a flight at 8.30 pm so we decided to do the cu chi tunnels half day which finished at 3.00pm. It took an hour and a half to get there and then we had to watch a video on cu chi which wasnt very good and just kept blaming americans for everything- there were also south vietnamese not wanting to be communists but that was ignored. The tunnels were built by the viet cong ( north vietnamese) to hide in for up to two months. There were 3 levels of tunnels 3 me...

Ho chi Minh was very busy, it was very built up with lots of sky scrapers, posh designer boutiques mixed with street vendors and markets. There is around 6 million motorbikes in Ho Chi Minh and it is crazy, it is just a sea motorbike helmets shooting around when you look down the streets. But to cross the road you just have to step onto the road and walk in front of them all and they will all move around you, its scary because you just have to make your legs step...

Dan was supposed to write this one but he's still asleep, also thís keyboard is weird and if you type two letters together they put the Vietnamese letters up so ill try and be careful. We got a tuktuk to the boat dock with a dutch couple who were just about to finish their trip and gave us some useful info about Vietnam. The boat was pretty empty and we sat outside to get some breeze as it was a slow boat and it had netting to shade us or so we thought as after...