It's now Saturday evening in Ho Chi Minh City and I am BOILING, you cant do anything without sweating it's disgusting. Yesterday we went to the war museum, which was quite good, but again TOO HOT. It was full of lots of photographs which were really shocking/depressing but also great insight into what actually happened. The place was extremely biased towards the Vietnamese but I think that's fair enough seeing as America has made plenty of biased war films in th...

The picture with this blog is of Nha Trang, which I left last night for Ho Chi Minh City! Nha Trang was as it looks, beautiful, sunny, HOT HOT HOT as my stunning beetroot shade of skin can prove! I have the worst tan lines...ugh. We arrived pretty early in Nha Trang (another overnight 12 hour bus ride - which was horrific, I was sat next to a Vietnamese man and his baby. Would have been ok if the man hadnt got his toe kindly stuck on my bum the whole time!! Luck...

I am now in Hoi An! Just a four hour bus drive (still a scary one) from Hue we arrived around 7pm and found a little place to stay, $23 between 5 of us for one night which isnt too shabby! We went for dinner, where they had happy hour from 4-9pm - so I was straight on the vodka and lemonade at 38,000 dong - 2 drinks for about 1.20! I am going to cry when I reach Australia and realise life really isnt that cheap.. So today we went in search for a decent tailor, ...

Right - I am now in Hue (the map didn't recognise Hue so I have tried to place it myself, so it may not be spot on, or right at all!) We caught a sleeper bus from Hanoi at 6.30pm and arrived at around 8.30am. The seats were fully reclined and comfy enough to sleep which was great - apart from the INSANE driver!! I swear in all I had about 12 near death experiences! Maybe not that bad, but, like all over Vietnamese drivers, he was shocking. But we had munchies, b...

Hello! I am back in the Hanoi bacpackers after a 3 day trip to Halong Bay, about a 3 hour drive away. It was an amazing sight, but typically it was SO overcast and cloudy it didn't do it any justice and when I finally get round to uploading photos i'm sure the reaction from most will be: "great?"!!! We got on a boat that included all our meals. And yes, they were all seafood! the occasional chip and vegetables popped up though which was a relief. I am ...