Hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, we had an early start this morning as we wanted to do the walking tour around the town, which is recommended in our travel guide. The book suggests it should take 1-5 hours depending on how many of the sites you stop off at on the way.After an hour, we completed the walk, only stopping to take pictures at the buildings and monuments instead of paying the admission fee to enter. We headed for some lunch and as there is little...

Hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, we had an early start this morning as we wanted to do the walking tour around the town, which is recommended in our travel guide. The book suggests it should take 1-5 hours depending on how many of the sites you stop off at on the way.After an hour, we completed the walk, only stopping to take pictures at the buildings and monuments instead of paying the admission fee to enter. We headed for some lunch and as there is little...

After a nightmare night last night, we got up early to find the hotel hadn't stolen our passports, mildly surprised we checked out the dirty and overpriced "hotel" and set off walking to catch the local bus to Hoi An. After half an hour, we found the bus stop and within minutes the bus arrived. Before we set off, we checked our travel guide which said the bus journey should cost 8,000 dong, so we thought even if we got charged 10,000 it wouldn't be too ...

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...