About 4 minutes after we got into Mui Ne we realised we'd left a bag of our clothes on the bus. The reception staff at our hotel rang up the bus company and they told us they'd drop it round at 1pm, then 5pm, then the next morning. Needless to say, we didn't get it back. Moral of the story: never let anything out of your sight in S.E.Asia! Luckily our hotel was rather swanky (chandeliers in the reception oo-er) which helped us get over it. For the second time in ...

So the sleeper bus from Hoi An to Nha Trang: a double decker bus with the middle floor taken out and three lines of bunk beds where you can almost - but not quite - stretch your legs flat out and almost - but not quite - recline your seat all the way back. We were fairly impressed, until the driver started torturing our ears with such gems as 'My heart will go on' and Mariah Carey's 'How do I live without you'. This went on for the entire night. Every half hour o...

We have fallen head over heels in love with Hoi An. Our room was great, with a comfy mattress, a balcony and *drumroll* the Bath, but the place itself is lovely too. Cars and motorbikes are banned from the old town so the usual fear of being splatted or spliced mid-crossing evaporates. Lanterns are hung between buildings, across roads and in trees, and all the buildings look so old and quaint and like they are just crying out for you to go in and drink copious am...

We had a great time on the overnight train from Hanoi to Hue. It was a 16 hour journey so we'd booked two soft sleeper beds in a 4-berth room. A couple we knew were staying in the room next to us but managed to swap so that we were all together. Result :-) Beers on the train were only 50p; we sank a few of those each and stayed up chatting until quite late. When we did eventually go to sleep we could lock the door on our room, which was quite handy as otherwise w...

On the morning of our trip to Halong Bay we checked out nice and early. As we paid we were told about the free breakfast that the hotel offers every morning. Not quite sure why that useful snippet of information wasn't passed on to us as we checked in, rather than when we checked out but better later than never I guess. After breakfast we were picked up and driven to Halong Bay in a minibus with 'Halong Bay Party Cruise - No Fun No Pay!' emblazoned across the sid...