I eventually slept for a few hours and woke up to the morning sun and we were not far from Hoi An. It was gorgeous. We seemed to go from the city, to the mountains, to the beach and now we were on the flat with lovely greenery and lakes. People were on their boats on the lakes and working in the fields already and it was 5am. We stayed in the Seastar hostel. We headed off for a walk to the old town and it was amazing. It had these old style French houses which ...

Wednesday 25th we headed to Nha Trang which is called the seaside party town and took about 4 hrs. On the way down from Dalat it was absolutely stunning scenary and we saw lots of mini waterfalls and mountains in the midst. We passed lots of little communities and people hard at work on the roads and in the fields. In Nha Trang we stayed at a hostel called the Blue Star which was very close to the beach but was more expensive $12. We headed for some food and tr...

So from HCMC to Dalat. We set off on Monday 23rd August at 1pm to head to Dalat in the central highlands which is also called the City of Eternal Springs. It has beautiful mountain scenary and is dotted with lakes and waterfalls and evergreen forests. This was a 7 hour bus drive and on the way up we stopped and had some food. I settled for a chicken fried rice which was absolutely delicious and was like 35k dong so just over a £1. The bus driver was a bit craz...