Day 253- The bus arrived around 5am and without fail a man with a card popped up and offered us a room so we went a long to see it and bargained him down to a good price. With it being so early we caught a few hours sleep and by 9 we were ready to start our explorations. We found breakfast at a street stall selling pork baguettes and we bought the biggest fruit shakes ever. We set off looking for one of the many markets and came across Tran Nguyen Hai statue an...

Day 252- We were up early and for the third and final time we ordered a pork baguette for breakfast from the street vendor down the road. We jumped on our mini-bus and were driven round a number of hotels picking up other guests then eventually, dropped off at the travel agency. Here we boarded our bus to Da Lat, it was very slow and we arrived about 1pm. Conveniently we were dropped off at a hotel and a man boarded the bus to welcome us and tell us about the r...

Day 250- The night bus was only 12 hours but one of the most uncomfortable yet, the seats were so hard and the road bumpy so we barely slept a wink. Luckily when we got off a little smiling man approached us touting us for his hotel. After some questions we agreed on looking at the room, it was a perfect location and nice and clean... and cheap! He also said we could have the room now for sleep and since it was still only 5am we snapped it up and caught some ...

Day 247- We woke and changed rooms in to a slightly cheaper one which wasn't available the night before. We had some breakfast in the hotel but it wasn't that good. We did some work in the hotel before heading out. We walked round the corner from our hotel in search of some more tailors and straight away we noticed 'Micky's', the Czech couple on our Ha Long Bay boat trip had their clothes made there and they were beautiful. We popped in to look at some materials ...

Day 244- These night buses never get any easier but this one must be one of the longest we have ever had to endure. At 6.30am we pulled over at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and struggled up and off the bus to find a plastic chair inside, we had a feeling the meal was inclusive from reviews that we had read. This was pretty much confirmed when we are all given the same meal of noodle soup and all the Vietnamese seemed to know that they should sit at a par...