24th December 2005 After a long night, feeling like we have been sleeping in a washing machine, we finally arrive into Danang at 6am. We exit the station into a melee of taxi drivers all shouting various prices at us. We think we have negotiated $8 to take four of us to Hoi An and then suddenly the price changes again. After much more bartering another taxi driver appears who agrees to $8. This is all fine until after driving for about 2 minutes he stops...

Wednesday 21st December Up early doors again for the trip to Nha Trang, we take one look out the window and the weather again confirms that it is time to move on. The journey is relatively crammed in at the back of the bus but the scenery on the way down is spectacular once again even though the mist came in and it was raining. The road on the way down was pretty narrow and snaked it's way around the mountains. The road itself was in a pretty terrible cond...

Sunday 18th December This morning we left Saigon and caught the 8hr bus ride to Dalat way up in the mountains, in the region appropriately named the Central Highlands. The weather when we leave Saigon is a cosy 25 degrees and a little overcast. We are expecting it to be a little cold in Dalat but hear it is a pretty nice place to spend a few days. We leave with our Irish buddy Fergus at 8 in the morning. Which actually turns out to be around 9 by the time...

Merry Christmas Everyone. Smile and the whole world smiles with you. Friday 16th December Another early start as we are picked up outside our hotel at 0730 for the 2-day trip to the Mekong Delta. Of the 83 million people living in Vietnam, 18 million live within the Mekong Delta area which is pretty amazing given the size of the place. The two day trip has cost us an amazing 16 dorrar including the overnight hotel. Once more the minibus is...

The Littlest Hobo Sunday 11th December Pack up and leave Sihanoukville this morning. We are very sad to be leaving this place because it is so chilled out and peaceful. Whether or the the place will be totally ruined in a few years through the inevitable commercialisation remains to be seen. My guess is that it will and the upgrading of the local airport cannot be far off. For those intersted you can buy a nice plot of land for around 70 000 dorrar a...