Blog : Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) We got a particularly sweaty bus to Ho Chi Minh from Mui Ne, which to about six hours or so. The air con was about as strong as a rabbits cough so everyone ended up shedding as many layers as modestly possible and lying legs akimbo trying to get some of the non existent cool air! It was just Al and I on this bus to HCMC, as we'd decided to head down and meet Helen who had bypassed Mui Ne completely in order to sort out her Indian...

Blog : Mui Ne Kate and I got up really early on our last morning in Da Lat, to catch the bus to Mui Ne, a Watersports town on the coast, according to Lonely Planet. We got up, packed and checked out of our room, ready for the 7am bus, which didn't bloody show up until after eight in the morning - ggrrrr! And worst still, it wasn't one if the big sleeper busses we were used to, that although being gross, do at least have legroom and air con on the whole, it was a...

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...