As I am leaving Hoi An today, I booked a trip out to My Son temple ruins knowing that I would be back in time for my bus down south to Nha Trang. The ruins of My Son temples are set within the jungle 35km from Hoi An and are the most important remains of the ancient Cham empire and it is now a Unesco World Heritage site. There were several options when booking the tickets to go here, but I opted for the trip to My Son by coach which included the boat trip back ...

As I hadn't made any plans to meet up with Boris and Maude as I still felt like a bit of a gooseberry, I borrowed one of the free push bikes from the hotel and thought I would head down to the beach which was a few kilometres away and go and see what it’s like and also to catch a few rays at the same time. At least this time I wasn’t going to fall off and break a rib. The bike had no gears or suspension but did have a rather attractive basket on...

Most of today was spent on the bus going down to Hoi An, but while on the bus and chatting to people when we stopped for lunch, I made friends with a French guy called Boris and a French Canadian girl called Maude who were travelling together.When we got to Hoi An, all three of us had nowhere booked to stay but I had been recommended a place with a swimming pool by someone that I had met previously, I think it was Lisa who I met in Luang Prabang, Laos as we had d...