Thursday was spent wondering around district one, visiting my first Vietnamese supermarket -they pack the place with as much stuff as possible. This visit also confirmed that they do actually buy whitening lotion for their bodies. People want to be as pale as me (believe it or not) as it shows you are wealthy and not working on a farm or field all day. Only the poor have dark skin. And there's us westerners trying to get some colour. I met the English girls for...

Wednesday 2 January ...I jumped on a bus and got talking to a Vietnamese guy. He ended up giving me his email address as he lived and worked in Saigon. My trip to Dalat was the first normal bus I got on - a non-sleeper bus. The journey was fine and I went to the hostel to meet the other girls. Waited for 2 hours for them to arrive (not sure why I was so much quicker, yet my bus was cheaper!) and then found a cheap hostel to stay in for almost $2 per person....

Hey, so a little behind with the blogs...but trying my best to catch up again! I haven't really stopped so its pretty tough but here is my Na trang blog!!! ... I arrived in Nha Trang 6am the following day, had a sleep at the hostel which was only a 5 minute walk from where I got dropped off and then joined the 4 girls (Emma, Louise, Natalie & Lauren) for a mud spa day. We sat in some very smelly mud-type baths for half an hour before relaxing in a warm b...

Hoi An is lovely! We stayed in Sunflower Hotel which was a little way out of the main town but it was only 20 minute walk or a 10 minute cycle. We met up with Lucy who had been in Hoi An for 5 days already. She loved the place too but headed to Na Trang the following day to celebrate Christmas. The village is very sweet, lots of lovely little restaurants by the river and many clothes shops to get tailor made clothes! I probably could live here it's so love...

Sunday 16 December was the last day in sunny Sapa so we decided to take in the views all day with some great food, my first ice cream of the trip, maybe also some carrot cake (to share!) and then we treated ourselves to a nice Vietnamese body massage. Half an hour of massage lying on a heated bed was heaven and only cost 80,000 dong (£2.37)! We were all relaxed to jump on the night bus! I didn't manage to get much sleep as I had to keep turning over from on...