Mike: Day 12: Despite leaving late we still arrived in Nha Trang earlier than expected, about 5:45am. Luckily the sun had come up already (affording us some excellent views of the red sky over the sea on the bus). We wern't far from the hotel so we walked a couple of blocks before we saw the "Summer Hotel". This was a nice 3 star hotel Alicia booked for us to relax in for a few day. We couldn't check in until 2pm so we had to hang around for a good few hours,...

Alicia Day 7: We arrived dishevelled and exhausted after the nightmare sleeper bus in Hue at 7am (earlier than planned thankfully) and stepped off into a bustling city, met by motos all trying to take us to their hostels. We politely said no, got our bearings and headed off across the bridge and through town on foot to our hostel. We were greeted by the friendly staff, given drinks and headed up to our room. It was lovely with a balcony, computer and more impor...

Mike Day 1: We arrived in Vietnam at 7:30pm local time after a small delay of about 1 hour. After going through the usual hassle of entering a country we found a taxi we could afford and took it to our hostel in the old quarter of Hanoi. The journey was suprisingly nice. Hanoi looked like it was a bustling and slightly run down city (as viewed from the outskirts at night) the houses were really thin but many stories tall and all in sort of a colonial style, it g...