It felt so good to be sat on the back of a bike, bag strapped to the back and everything you need, riding through the stunning Vietnamese countryside and our guide was brilliant. He stopped at some tribal villages along the way and stopped while going on a mountain pass to see the scars left by the US army after dropping Asia Orange on the hills. Most of the vegetation was a dark lushes green but in between this were huge patches of luminous green bushes where th...

After a trip back to Hanoi we boarded our night bus to Hoi An and I've never had so much confusion simply getting on a bus. First we took a mini bus to a larger bus which took us to the night bus, which we then had to run for as it was nearly full to get a place and all this time we could see about 40 other travelers who were on the big bus that were all meant to be on our bus but because it was already full they just had to wait with all their luggage on the sid...

We headed to the town of Nah Trang which was a good example of extremely s*** urban planning. It looked like the Vietnamese version of the centre of Benidorm on the Costa del Sol. A good stretch of sand, ruined by sun loungers, backed by tacky bars that led onto a concrete jungle of hotels, restaurants and tour agencies with a dollop of bright pink poms mooching around. We spent a day at the beach which was a decent swimming beach with light blue warm water, a gr...

We were driving for about 3 hours out of Hanoi before we reached what could be called countryside. WE just saw a sprawling mess of buildings outside of the city and eventually came a landscape limestone karsts rising out of the flat lushes rice paddies. Then we finally reached the ocean! Boarded our junk with about 20 other tourists had our lunch on a table of 3 English lads my age all on their gap years. Was pretty amusing to be with people my own age as it hasn...

So we arrived at the airport in Hanoi and tried to get into the city for as little as we could. An hour journey cost us less than 2 bucks!! when taxis usually go for $15. We first haggled with a taxi driver who we bartered down to 10 bucks then we got 10 mins down the road and he said you must pay an extra $20, Chris got majorly pissed off, told them to stop the car and grabbed me and got out by the side of the motorway in the middle of nowhere! haha the car drov...