Blog : Da Lat KV and I caught a really early morning bus from Nha Trang to Da Lat, leaving Al and Christa on the beach for a few more days and allowing Helen to whizz straight down to HCMC to sort her visa problems out. Al wanted to wait for a friend of hers who coincidentally is in Vietnam and would be in Nha Trang at the weekend. We all brought six stop bus tickets however up in Hanoi and it was Da Lat that made the ticket expensive and as we had the time, Kat...

Blog : Nha Trang We caught the worlds s***test over night bus from Hoi An to Nha Trang. It was massively over crowded, with people having to sit on the floor in the aisles, smelt horrendously of cheesy feet and was disgustingly dirty. I got inside my silky liner immediately and didn't want to move. It was also a long journey, 11 hours at least and it had no toilet on board, joy! The bus was wiggling all over the road and so trying to sleep and balance on the top...

Blog : Hoi An To be honest, we were all pretty looking forward to moving on from Hue to Hoi An. It was probably to do with the prospect of good weather and shopping as much as anything else but Hue and I hadn't really fallen in love and so I wasn't sad to say goodbye when we boarded the bus at lunchtime on the Tuesday. We walked to the bus office from our hostel, with our backpacks on, which always makes any distance seem much further because we walk a lot slowe...

Blog : Hue Arriving back from Halong Bay we had literally an hour to sort our s*** out before catching the 15 hour overnight sleeper bus down to Hue. I went out to try and get a sandwich for the journey as I knew I'd be grumpy if I didn't manage to get any dinner in and also to pick up a vietnese SIM card as I would miss my scheduled Skype date with B so wanted to be able to message him whilst I was on the bus at least... I dragged Sebastian with me because he a...

Blog : More Hanoi and Halong Bay We were a pretty big group when we counted everyone that was keen to go to Halong bay together on the same day. There was Al and I, Christa who we met and travelled with in Australia, Tom from work back at home, the four Liverpool lot from the Thai islands, plus their israeli friend Alona and Helen, Sebastian and Hatem who were all single travellers on our Sapa trek - 12 in total!! It was a bit of a nightmare to try and coordinat...