Back in Ho Chi Minh City. Just left Belinda at the airport and checked into a backpacker, the Sao Nam Hotel. Room is small, but not too bad. Will only be here overnight and then to Phnom Penh tomorrow on the bus. So I think that I am now officially backpacking. Time to go and get some dinner.

At an internet cafe in the Ha Noi airport, flight doesn't leave until 8:35 but we arrived at about 4 straight from Ha Long bay. So just killing some time before flight number 5 in the past 9 days. Looking forward to some bus trips ;) Ha Long bay was surreal. I felt like I was in Jurassic park, or in The Beach (book and movie), so many limestone karsts covered in trees and plants. There are literally hundreds of junks (Vietnamese word for boat) that take people o...

Belinda and I arrived in Ha Noi a few hours ago. Staying at The Boss Hotel, which isn't too bad. Nothing on Sunrise in Nha Trang, doors would magically open for you there :) But it will do. I'm sure it will be luxury when compared to some of the backpackers I will be stayin in over the next few months. Only one night here, heading to Ha Long bay to do an overnight junk boat cruise tomorrow. A travel agent told me that the one we had booked was going to be a piec...

Went out last night for the first time, had a pretty good night. Was a bit drunk by the end of the night but not too bad. Only spent about $30 I think, beer is so cheap! Places we went to were Guava, Sailing Club and Why Not bar. Home about 3am on the back of a motorbike, cost me 20 000 dong (a bit over a dollar). Feeling ok today but I think when you can get up at whatever time suits you and you don't have to go to work it takes a pretty bad hangover to make y...

Have arrived in Nha Trang, very different from Ho Chi Minh City. Staying at Sunrise Resort, it's fantastic. Today we hired some bicycles and did a bit of a tour around the city, a little bit sunburnt but got a great hat so now it's just like i'm one of the locals :) Spent the afternoon by the pool and have had a few too many 333 (local Vietnamese beer pronounced ba ba ba) beers, it's a hard life. Hopefully the next few days here will not be too eventful, lots of...