Hello all, Well, after another very long journey on an overnight train, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) almost in time to see sunrise. After a bit of early morning groggy-ness, and a lot of yawning we started walking towards the centre in search of a proper, comfortable bed... after sleeping in a chair all night its amazing how much you appreciate a bed! After about 3 kilometers, we arrived in the backpacker area and started the hunt for a decent room. ...

Good morning England! Hello all, wow has been a while since we've written anything on here... have discovered that Vietnam is a very strange and wonderful place! Such a different country to everywhere else we have been so far, a lot lot more full on and a bit in your face at times but you can't help but love it. When we last wrote on here we were waiting for a train to our next destination Nha Trang. It was a very long journey, but comfortable enough. The only ...

Hello all, Wahoo!!! Now in Vietnam, which is sooo cool. Sad to leave Laos as it was such a beautiful country, but nice to get back to civilisation =) The journey from Vientiane (our last stop in Laos) to Hue was very long, and typical in the Lao organisation... almost non-existant. We got picked up outside of our hotel by a tuk-tuk, and then proceeded to drive around for almost an hour in circles (not literally) picking up other passengers. We must have ended u...

Hello again, Well, what can we say about Vientiane? The journey down there was pretty uneventful, which was quite a relief after our trip to Vang Vieng (Landslides and all!). Its probably one of the smallest, and most chilled out capital cities in the world, and parts of it look like it would be better placed in France. We arrived in the late afternoon, at a bus station that was a few kilometers from the centre (which is typical in Laos, to allow Tuk-Tuk'...

Hello all! Well we were very sad to leave Luang Prabang, such a beautiful place think we could have stayed there for the rest of our trip... or forever. Still time is very short, and with the halfway mark fast approaching and loads still to do we reluctantly moved on! We got up very early, and a little bit groggy as we had been out for a few drinks the night before with Jamie and Jim, who we met on the boat trip. We packed in a bit of a hurry, checked out and c...