The scenery on the trip to Nha Trang was actually really nice which made the trip less traumatic. We arrived in late in the evening and went to our hostel! I met up with Ben again who I had met in Ho Chi Minh and ended up going for a few beers - which turned into quite a few beers. I also booked onto a cultural cruise for the following day (by cultural I mean booze). The following day I got up, nursing a moderate hang over I headed downstairs to see it was t...

I arrived into Dalat ahead of schedule - which only ever happens to me when I get a night bus and therefore arrive when it's still dark, so I whiled away an hour reading until the sun came up! I decided to walk into town. I reached the centre and went in search of some lodgings - it was still Tet - this thing drags on - and there was no accommodation available - I tried about 20 hotels! I decided to go back one of the first ones I'd tried who said she might hav...

I arrived into Ho Chi Minh Airport (after a brief stop in KL) on the morning of Monday the 23rd of January. I was pretty tired, very excited and truth be told a bit nervous - it had been a long time since I'd been in a country where I didn't speak the language and Vietnam is pretty infamous for people hassling you and trying to separate you from your money by both legitimate and not so legitimate ways! I hopped into a taxi to the city centre and made my way to ...