Well I am now over a month behind. Unfortunately, I have not been well and had to spend some time recovering before resuming my travels. I will leave out the ugly details, but try and give an account of the more significant places I have been. Saigon After arriving by bus, me and Rasmus found ourselves are nice hotel in the backpacker area of town. There is a square of streets and within the square is a maze of alleys dotted with hotels. We were in one of these...

Da Lat - Day 2 The weather was much improved for our second day, so me and Rasmus decided to go for a trek up a volcano, as you do. We needed to get to the starting point, so chartered ourselves a couple of moto drivers. We had seen this chap standing on the street corner touting for business, so I approached him and negotiated so good a deal that when his friends came with the bikes, they simply refused to go and left again. After finding one friend who accept...

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...