Touch down in Mui Ne, one more lazy beach town won't hurt. We felt the need to visit just one more beach resort and had heard good things about this place so this morning we jumped on a 7 hour bus to the little town of Mui Ne. With only one main street and nothing much to do here apart from relax we've had another peaceful afternoon preparing ourselves for the carnage in Saigon. We have checked in at Bien dau resort, with its own private coconut beach and littl...

SUNSHINE at last! Today has tan potential, we're so eager to get our tan on infact we are walking down the beach at 5.30am. Well the latter is true but the real reason for our ridiculously eager behaviour is due to the night bus dropping us off at 5am. We can't check in until at least 7am so we have a few hours to waste watching the sunrise. On first impression Nha Trang is that it is the Rio De Janerio of Vietnam. Football, volleyball and badminton courts are d...

Now this is what im talking about, this is what Vietnam looked like in my imagination before I arrived here. Its beautiful. It has a similar atmosphere to Pai. The relaxed vibe and the colourful architecture and calm river make Hoi An one of my favourite places on this trip so far. Another reason I am a fan of this little easy going town is the weather, its finally shorts and t-shirt time again (hurrah!) The city is bursting with history and brightly coloured ru...

Another Unesco world heritage site Hue (prounounced h-way as we soon found out) is the spiritual heart of Vietnam. Its a not so peaceful start to the day however as Tom is still completley covered in this unknown rash and it is now spreading. As soon as we get off the train we make our way to the hospital, its a huge hospital and is dominated my trainee doctors all walking around in their lab coats. We find an English speaking IT technician who very kindly shows...

Halong bay is one of the 7 natural wonders of the world (we've now seen 3!) The bay is made up of around 3000 limestone islands which rise from the emerald green waters in the Gulf on Tonkin. Most of the islands or karsts have caves which we have been able to explore by kayaking. Halong bay is one of the places on our trip that I am most excited about, we're only on day one of our three day trip and it already has exeeded expectations. There is no other words to...