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...

25th July Hue - Hanoi Over Night Train This journey deserves its own postcard correct photo's will follow!! The station is absoloute manic bodies and cases and parcels everywhere. There is only one platform so we cant go wrong...It says here!! The train arrives onto the platform unannounced so we start to ask people if this is our's eventually showing of tickets and lots of shrugging we jump aboard the night train. Well not quite jump I am pushed up the ste...