On Friday night I had the worst sleep ever!! Just after I turned the light out to go to sleep I heard the strangest rustling sound so I jumped up to see what it was. As soon as I turned the light on I noticed that something was amiss - the bakery bag with my breakfast for the morning that I had put on the desk had moved about 3 feet to behind the TV! That is when I saw the mouse! For some illogical reason mice really creep me out, and I stood still for ages tryin...

I arrived in Nha Thrang from Dalat around lunchtime and as soon as I found a guesthouse I straight away set about seeing the sights. I immediately was pestered by a moto driver so I hired him for a couple of hours to take me to all the places I wanted to go. My first port of call was the National Oceanographic Museum which had a large selection of displays, although unfortunately most of the information was in Vietnamese which obviously wasn't very helpful, but t...

Tuesday morning I was up early for the bus to Dalat, and it all went without a hitch. In fact, the bus was the nicest bus I have been on in South East Asia with free water and neck pillows. Added to that it was half empty so I wasn't squashed up against another person.The further north we drove, the nicer and more mountainous the scenery, and the more clean and modern the towns. Arriving at Dalat bus station was akin to arriving in one in Britain - it was so mode...

I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening after 12 hours of travelling. The border control at Ha Tien was a weird experience as the group of people in the minibus went through together and our passports were stamped without them even confirming we were who our passports say we are. Probably for this reason, my passport was wrongly stamped and I do not have 30 days in Vietnam. My visa was not supposed to expire until the 12th of March and I had planned to ...

Kep is not too far from Kampot so I arrived at 9am and then had the whole day to explore. I organised a guesthouse right by the shore so I literally dropped my stuff and then started walking. I took the road along the coast until I reached the crab market which is supposed to be amazing for seafood, but it was still morning and I wasn't quite up to eating fish at that time of day. There were some street vendors just further up where women were selling waffles an...