This ancient yet graceful town is delightful. Once a major port, it boasts the grand architecture and beguiling riverside setting that befits its heritage, with little-to-none of the 21st century curses of traffic and pollution. It's bursting with gourmet Vietnamese restaurants -- although we'd more than recommend Bale Well, a very reasonably priced local place (down a little alley near the famous well) that serves only one dish of barbecued pork skewers ...

This unassuming, and slightly backwater, seaside town is a little more out of the way. On arrival, we found it rather lacking in its set up for western tourists. It's not all that surprising that this is merely seen as a convenient place to break the journey between Nha Trang and Danang; at first glance, the town offers very little apart from a collection of small coves dotted along the coast (nice to explore IF it doesn’t rain, constantly!).However, af...

It may not be a charmer like Mui Ne or a historic jewel like Hoi An (so I am told), but there is just something about Nha Trang. It's a study of contrasts really, as the main city is still a bustling Vietnamese entity, buzzing along oblivious to the tourist crowds lining the shore. Hugging the coast for a few blocks is a fully fledged international resort, with stylish restaurants and trendy bars. Although from what we could see it was predominantly a hot spo...

Firstly, apologies to any avid followers of SmeeLog for the recent radio silence. Along with a virus that knocked David and I for six -- bed bound for two days, and another three before being back to attempting normal meals -- and my second concussion of the year (read on for more details... mum, you might want to stop reading now, lol), I haven't really felt able to stare at a computer screen long enough to keep you all updated. Oh, plus, David has had to do...

This is my final post for the four short blogs to fill the two week gap between Kampot, Cambodia and Dalat, Vietnam; and our first taste of vietnamese beach life. 'Supposedly'one of Vietnam's most popular beach destinations -- I think we've been a bit spoiled by Cambodia's hideaway, desert-island beaches -- Mui Ne is home to 20km of beachfront (although, 'seafront' is a better description), with an array of guest houses and resorts tha...