Hello everyone, This is the second entry we have posted today, so to read where we last left off in Hoi An you need to read the post entitled Nha Trang, Da Lat, Mui Ne first. Continuing from there..... We got to Saigon in the afternoon and checked into our pre booked hotel (we usually just find one on the day), the room was slightly larger than a shoebox and had no windows, after walking around town we also found that we had paid well over the odds. To ease ...

Hello readers, I hope you are all well! We are just catching up on the blog - so we're posting two entries today, starting where we last left off in Hoi An... We left Hoi An on an overnight bus heading for Nha Trang. This time we got our seats on the bottom of the bus at the back so we had a bit more room. Half way through the journey they picked up a few locals who slept in the aisles, so it was a bit awkward for Christina who was in the middle of the bus...

Hi Everyone, So we left Hanoi on a night bus which was an interesting experience - the bus is set out in bunk beds (photo will be on Facebook). The first few hours consisted of the bus conductor constantly channel hopping through various films and flicking the lights on to different modes (very annoying), we then stopped off at some putrid service station before continuing. After very little sleep we were dropped off on the main drag in Dong Hoi at 4am. We ha...

Hi Everyone, So we flew to Hanoi on the Friday. When we arrived, we were totally overwhelmed as the city is so busy and loud but in a totally different way to Bangkok. Due to the French influence there are loads of small cobbled streets and colonial buildings that could have easily been taken straight from Paris; it's just totally surreal! Josh had done a lot of reading on Vietnam, and in all the books the place to go was Hanoi Backpackers Hostel so we thoug...