Hanoi- the capital of the North. After arriving at 5am from the worst bus journey in the world I was so excited when the hotel had duvets- the first in over 3 months!! Its funny what you miss! We did a day trip to Halong bay, on the east coast of Vietnam about 3 hours from Hanoi. Halong Bay is a Unesco World Heritage Site and we cruised on a boat for 4 hours around limestone rocks and visited an amazing cave which the sea had washed out and visited a fl...

On the way to Hue, we stopped at the obligatory tourist trap where you're encouraged to buy tat like marble budda's and stone carvings. Everyone gets off and gets harrassed by these sellers and wonders why we have 20 minutes to do nothing! This French couple decided to tour this marble mountain and when they didnt come back after the alloted 20 minutes the driver left them there!! With all attempts to stop him he was having none of it and off we went along wit...

A tasty 12 hours on the bus and we got to Hoian! A really small French town with over 200 tailors who made suits etc by hand- very impressive, just a shame we are scruffy gits, with only a few pennies for rice......

So.... I'm back!! Dan said he was so stressed doing the other posts that he refuses to do anymore!! Lazy get!! Nha Trang was supposed to be the most idylic beach town where we could spend a few days on the beach sipping cocktails by day and downing shots by night! So.. we got there and it didnt stop raining for 3 days- we still kept to the drinking part tho!! As you heard I got my hair permanently straightened too- awesome and it was only a tenner! Lads...

Ho Chi Minh City, our first taste of Vietnam. At first when we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon) it seemed to remind us very much of China & at times it still does. HCMC is a very busy place. There are around 9 millon people living there, over 3 million scooters (I feel at home!), but only 500,000 cars. This is because the streets would be far too busy if everyone had a car. Our first day we just had a quick look around & then went for a bite to eat ...