15th October 2009 - 17th October 2009: The sleeper bus to Nha Trang seemed to be the worse one so far, the roads were very windy and bumpy and we spent what felt like the entire trip wide awake holding on for dear life. However we weren't too worried about our lack of sleep given our plan for Nha Trang was to basically chill out and enjoy the beach for a couple of days. It was also another opportunity for Sean to build up his tan, which unfortunately was still...

11th October 2009 - 14th October 2009: After Hue we took a four hour bus journey down to Hoi An which is very much a sleepy town in Vietnam. Our hotel was absolutely fab, with big clean rooms and a swimming pool - yep, we had really moved up to the big league this time. We spent our first morning lazing by the pool and decided to do some lengths to try and get fit although we are not sure if four lengths in a 10m pool, doing doggy crawl, can be classified as ...

8th October 2009 - 10th October 2009: We got the sleeper train to Hue and shared a compartment with some Italian guys although neither of us seemed to be up for much talking so we all just headed to bed. We were awoken the next morning at 6am by one of the attendants who shouted at us that we were arriving in Hue and should get our stuff together. He was 'shooing' us along to the exit and had the door open and the steps down before the train had even arrived a...

5th October 2009 - 7th October 2009: Sean spent a lot of time researching (well that was his excuse for being on the internet for hours) which tour we should take to Halong Bay as we had heard so many horror stories of people on some boats trying to sleep despite the noise of rats running underneath. He eventually settled on Columbus Cruises - to the disappointed of Chien, the guy in our hostel, who was constantly promoting his own tour - which although a little...

Hanoi: 3rd October - 5th October We managed to get ourselves to a hostel however did not stay in the same one as Max, Linda & Nina as they only had mixed dorms available and we weren't in the mood for sharing a room with loads of people. However the hostel we did eventually manage to book was really lovely and, compared to the Hong Kong, the room was fit for royalty - we had a king sized bed and even a bath tube!! We took a walk around Hanoi and along the ...