TUBING IN VANG VIENG... The journey to Laos was long. Very long. We didn't have the most comfortable start to the trip when the minibus that was taking us to the bus station crammed the full capacity of a 30 seater coach into a 14 seater mini bus along with everyone's luggage! I pretty much had a girl sitting on my lap whilst James was more or less sitting on a Thai man's lap! To make things worse we set off at rush hour! Now rush hour in Hanoi is a little frant...

Right ladies and gents please get comfortable as this is a long one! You may want to make yourself a brew! So we decided that while in Hanoi we would book a little overnight cruise to Ha Long Bay. The trip cost us 35 US Dollars, which included 1 night stay on board the boat and all our meals. We boarded our little 12 seater van at the tour operators where we had booked the tour first thing that morning. We settled into our seats, before then picking up the las...

HANOI(SY) AKA MOTORBIKE CENTRAL AKA SCAM CITY....... After yet another overnight trip on the sleeper bus, we arrived in Hanoi early doors. Whilst on the 13 hour journey there we'd done a bit of reading and had learnt that Hanoi was the scam central of Vietnam. We didn't however expect to be scammed (or at least be targets) before even getting off the bus! Literally the second the bus pulled in a guy jumped on and lay down in between me and James. He asked us wh...

We arrived off the bus in Hue from Hoi An in the evening around 7pm. This would be one of our shortest coach journeys only about 4 hours to our relief. We checked into our hostel (Only $5 each per night, cheapest so far) dumped our stuff down and headed out to explore a little, whilst also looking for somewhere to eat. We found a nice little place although perhaps a little pricey but still good food. We left there and headed back to the hostel as I was not feelin...

CHARMING HOI AN.... From Nha Trang we got the sleeper bus to the riverside town of Hoi An. The coach journey was rather eventful when whilst stopping for a toilet break a foreign lady on one of the bottom beds in the coach jumped up screaming "RAT!!" This caused pandemonium but the alleged rat wasn't to be seen again, thankfully! Twelve hours after leaving Nha Trang we arrived in Hoi An. In usual Vietnamese style we were hounded by taxi drivers the se...