Da Lat - Day 1 When I woke up early to go and catch the bus to Da Lat, it was absolutely bucketing down. So much so that I asked the hotel to see if they could sort me out a taxi, even though it was just around the corner. They just looked at me with a puzzled expression, so, drawing the florescent orange waterproof rucksack cover and taking my flimsy Chinese umbrella, out I went. There was nobody else waiting at the tourist office, but the girl directed me rou...

Nha Trang Happily I had found myself sharing the bus with an English couple with whom I shared the last one. This meant I had some company and helped in terms of finding somewhere to stay. The rain was pouring down when we arrived and only stopped once we had actually found a hotel (typical). We went out for a wander along the sea front of the beach resort town and the rain attacked again. By the time we returned for lunch we were soaked. I quickly discovered t...

Hoi An Ok, so I haven't been very well of late and the blog has suffered as a result. I will do my best to try and get things back on track, but I apologise if it is very brief and remains a tad behind. Hoi An is a lovely little town a few Km from the coast. The place has lots of old French style buildings that seemed to have avoided destruction in the wars and most of them are now tailor shops! The town has more than 200 tailors and tourists flock here to have...

Hue to Hoi An (Motorbikes!) I did not sleep so well. I woke up about 6.30 in the morning, excited and nervous about the prospect of not only riding a motorbike for the first time, but riding it all the way to Hoi An (140km). My test drive was at 8.00, so I tried to distract myself with breakfast and computer. Eventually the time came. A man turned up with a black automatic scooter and I sat on the back as he explained the controls. Turn the key (yeah, yeah),...

Hue Ok, I am soooo far behind now, I dont know how to catch up. Sorry if the entries are now much smaller. Or maybe you will prefer less to read! Before I talk about Hue, I should explain what happened to my hostel: The man from the tour company told us it had 'falled down'! Intrigued, but imagining that this was some sort of loss of translation, we set of to investigate. What we found was quite unbelievable. Even from a distance we could see a very large cran...