Our original intention after Saigon was to head North towards Hanoi, stopping off at various points but we'd heard about a place called Phu Quoc island which was supposed to be a lovely island off the south coast where you can catch some sun, relax and snorkel. The thought of that was too tempting so we decided to head there for a couple of nights. Sadly, things didn't quite go to plan.  For a start, it took over a day to get there as we had a six hour ...

Vietnam hurrah! We'd been excited to come here for a while now. We'd heard good things about the food :). We arrived late in the evening and we were helpfully directed to our guest house by a friendly local. The guest house was down a very narrow pathway which split off into numerous other paths in different directions. There were lots of people going about their business where they had turned the front of their house into a little shop, restaurant or gu...