As Tuy Hoa seems very quiet it left us with little to do so we just hung around in the morning waiting for out next train in an AC carriage to Danang.After a really difficult walk about 3 miles in the mid-day heat with our rucksacks we boarded the train. It was a little more expensive than the coach option but we had far more room, and access to the toilet and food whenever required, priceless!Unfortunately the train didn't arrive into Danang until 10.30 pm which...

We were up at 5.30 this morning as we needed to walk to the train station in time for our first journey on a Vietnamese train. Much to Tom's excitement, we boarded our train, it made a nice change after weeks of getting buses everywhere. The Vietnamese trains have four different classes, hard sleeper, soft sleeper, hard seat and soft seat. As this journey was only two hours we choose to save some money and opted for the hard seat, which basically are just benches...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Today we decided to make the most of being by the sea and grabbed our snorkels and headed to the beach. We spent the morning swimming before it got too hot. After lunch, we set off walking to the train station to book a couple of tickets. On Monday we are moving onto Tuy Hoa a small town two hours north. That evening, complete with sunburn, we went for some tea and managed to watch Burnley ...

When we booked the bus to Nha Trang yesterday, we were expecting the journey to take 7 hours but the guy we bought the ticket from said it would take 3-4 hours. Not quite sure how the times could differ so much, we boarded the bus at 8.00am and got ready for it to take seven hours thinking anything less would be a bonus. Rachael promptly fell asleep, while Tom enjoyed all the amazing scenery on the journey down through the mountains, amazing! At 12.30 we were ...

We set off today for another day of site seeing, and found the weather was much better . The first stop was the "Crazy House", described in the Lonely Planet as being designed in the style of Alice and Wonderland, and as it was only about 20 minutes away we thought it would be worth a visit. Turns out it wasn't. The building was really run down and in need of a good clean and unfortunately there was nothing weird and wonderful about it at all. We wand...