A 16 hour train ride and I arrived in a very rainy Bangkok. I planned on getting a taxi to the hotel Helen and I had booked but the queue because of the rain was so horrendous I lugged my stuff on to a BTS train and walked there. Luckily they let me check in early and I had a much needed nap after not sleeping well on the train due to the aircon being on so high. When I got up I ventured out into the rain and explored the area, there were 3 Starbucks in the vic...

I landed in Chiang Mai and got a taxi to my hostel where the Americans were having a big thanksgiving dinner. I was a bit late to join in so headed out for some food with a Canadian guy Jamie who was leaving at the same time for the same purpose. We found somewhere for beer and noodles when Jamie remembered it was his birthday! Funny how you lose track of times and dates whilst you're travelling. Even more random was it turned out he had been on a tour with Sky...

I left Hoi An on a bus to Hue, luckily this was only 4 hours (was actually 6 - always add more time on to everything here!) When we arrived the vultures were out trying to scam you again, so I found a nice old man with a tuk tuk and got him to take me to the hostel when the heavens well and truly opened. I checked in and decided a beer was in order so went to the hostel bar and started chatting to two men sat at the bar. It turned out to be the hostel owner an...

My night bus from HCMC to Nah Trang was surprisingly comfortable. Everyone had their own bed and a shelf for their things. I managed to sleep on and off for most the journey. We arrived in Nah Trang just after 6amand I was bombarded as soon as I got off the bus; taxi, hotel, lady lady lady! I had googled where the hostel I was going to stay at was from the bus stop, so knew it was walkable, even though everyone kept telling it was too far and to stay at their ...

A few hours after the border and we were in Ho Chi Minh City. We found our hostel down a maze of alleyways in the main backpacker district. We dumped our stuff and went for an explore, and ended up at the market which was pretty crazy as the aisles between stalls were really narrow and you had people shouting 'hey lady, you buy you buy!' from every angle. We left and stood at the side of the road for a while, everyone has said the traffic in HCMC is insane, but...