Jluy 24th-25th July Hue Well nobody's more surprised than us we make it to Hue only 5 hr bus trip so didnt need to sleep this time.. The journey took us through some lovely mountain passes. First impressions of Hue very noisy busy city. I think we are getting little tired of cities but without our own transport it's very hard to get off the touirist route. so we find a comfortable guest house. We are straight out to find tour guide for Vinh Linh Village. Vinh...

20th-23rd July Hoi An Well we were supposed to be at Quy Nhan however we cught the overnight bus obviously relxed took some Valium and went off to sleep awakening to find ourselves in Hoi-An mmh thats OK we were only going to use Quy Nhan as a stop over to ligthen the journey. Happy this happened this town/city is beautiful our hotel is good for $7 a room The beach was a long 2hr walk in blazing sunshine but worth the walk, Straight into lovely warm blue seas...

July 14th-17th Dalat- Nha Trang We have just had the most fabulous 3 days with 2 motorcycles guides Duc & Tuhn We were pilions + Luggage on Honda 100cc so very slow but it didn't really matter because we were stopping so regularly. Our first day took us through the mountains. We stopped to see How RICE WINE was made of course we had to try some 100% proof and its only 10am doesn't matter we are not riding for a change. It was that good we had to buy some for la...

Dalat Honeymoon city. dalat is situated in the highlands settling in the mountain lovely to smell clean air again!! We took a trip out with some local boys who call themselves EASY RIDERS on their 150cc go fast machines WOW not exactly true but we had a great day with them. they took us into local villages to see silk worm factories 4 different processes 4 different families producing their bit. Stopped to see local farmers working in their fields all in traditio...

7th July Saigon as the locals still refer to it. Well after Leaving a very sad time in Cambodia it was almost a pleasure to enter Vietnam you could see the difference immediately after crossing the border. First impressions of Saigon very big busstling city however very much cleaner. Brand new shopping centres and the usual poor back street areas. People here ares still very poor but are trying to be self sufficent lots of small farm holdings growing anything t...