We spent around 7 days around the capital city of Vietnam, Hanoi. The first couple of days we spent getting used to the cold weather! There seemed to be a blanket of mist over the city and the temperature just seemed to be horrendously cold after all the lovely sunshine we'd been having! We spent some time looking at the sites which included the mosaleum and a museum dedicated to Ho Chi Minh which had the most bizarre set of modern art which we weren't entirel...

We caught a night bus to Hoi An and I wasn't in the best of moods when we arrived! We tried to find the hostel that Dan was staying in but it took us ages to walk around trying to locate it but in the end we had no luck. We ended up staying in another hostel which was close by though. We managed to coincide our visit with Merle, Cat, Sarah and Andrea who we'd met in Thailand and Laos. They were travelling southwards down Vietnam and we were going northwards s...

We caught a night bus to Hoi An and I wasn't in the best of moods when we arrived! We tried to find the hostel that Dan was staying in but it took us ages to walk around trying to locate it but in the end we had no luck. We ended up staying in another hostel which was close by though. We managed to coincide our visit with Merle, Cat, Sarah and Andrea who we'd met in Thailand and Laos. They were travelling southwards down Vietnam and we were going northwards s...

We caught a night bus to Hoi An and I wasn't in the best of moods when we arrived! We tried to find the hostel that Dan was staying in but it took us ages to walk around trying to locate it but in the end we had no luck. We ended up staying in another hostel which was close by though. We managed to coincide our visit with Merle, Cat, Sarah and Andrea who we'd met in Thailand and Laos. They were travelling southwards down Vietnam and we were going northwards s...

We had our first experience of a sleeper bus from Saigon to Nha Trang which was a 10 hour trip. We caught the bus at 8pm and got on to find rows of beds. When I say beds I do mean that they are for people who are about 5 feet tall and the width of a stick!! We got assigned beds for the trip and I was on the top bunk right in the middle of the bus. There was nowhere to put our bags so they just had to sit by our feet! We set off on the journey and luckily the...