Ninh Binh, Ha Long Bay and Hanoi After Hue we went to a place called Ninh Binh on one of the fabled 'night buses'. these are normal coach style affairs but with little beds instead of seats. We had a couple of games of scrabble but it was an uncomfortable journey as the beds were built for 5 foot Vietnamese not 6 foot westerners like us. We managed though and got into Ninh Binh knackered at 5:30am. We booked a tour around the area with a really nice guy called H...

After Hue we went to a place called Ninh Binh on one of the fabled 'night buses'. these are normal coach style affairs but with little beds instead of seats. We had a couple of games of scrabble but it was an uncomfortable journey as the beds were built for 5 foot Vietnamese not 6 foot westerners like us. We managed though and got into Ninh Binh knackered at 5:30am. We booked a tour around the area with a really nice guy called Huan. We took a boat ride through a...

Da Lat - Hue Right, next we took a local bus to the Mountain town of DeLat. The bus was ramma-jamma with people and the driver flew round the swerving mountain roads strewn with pot holes and boulders that had fallen from the cliffs above. YIKES! We arrived in DeLat alive though so that was nice and the first thing that strikes you is how cool the climate is being so high (1300ft) in the mountains. We took a walk round the lake and supped mountain coffee. Coffee...

Ha Tien - Mui Ne First stop in Vietnam was Ha Tien, just after the border crossing with a psycho taxi driver from hell. To be fair he got us there in one piece - but what was quoted as a 2 hour drive was one hour of swerving down a dirt track short cut with a bust speedometer texting on 2 phones one in each hand (though I didn't find some of this out til we'd arrived as Tom felt my nerves weren't up to it at the time, and he was right). We stayed in Ha Tien for ...

So after the depressing times of Phnom Penh and the exhausting times of Siem Reap we needed a holiday. A 4 hour bus trip took us to Sihanoukville with the promise of white sand beaches and seafood BBQs of legendary status. When our bus rolled up in the station a throng of around 30 tuk-tuk drivers and moto riders surrounded the doors. After a sweaty journey and with us in the mood to chill it was one of the most unwelcome sites ever but our guesthouse had ordered...