All throughout Vietnam, we have always been really impressed with how clean the places we have stayed have been. Everything is a bit more expensive here, and instead of rock bottom double rooms being $4-7 per night, they were now like $10-14, but you do get nicer spaces for your money. Saigon was no different, and after a bit of a faff to find somewhere at the lower end of that scale, we did eventually settle on a nice little room above the local pharmacy run by ...

A quick little beach stop for a night in Nha Trang was the best way we could think to break up the 20 hour trip onwards to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). We opted to do night sleeper buses either side to keep it cheap and had some simple but nice enough A/C accommodation in the beach town. Arriving in the morning, we opted to pretty much dump bags and go straight to the sand. Of course, within an hour of forking out for sun loungers, the clouds came rolling across t...

We stopped in Hue (pronounced H-way) to have a nose around the historical Citadel (where the country was ruled from in the 1800s) and got our first taste of the temple-like pagoda structures that are so typical of this part of the world at Dieu De National Pagoda. Many of the rulers from the 1800s through to 1945 have their tombs here in Hue. They planned them themselves during their lifetime to get it just how they want! They are scatted over dozens of kilometre...

So Singapore was a one night stop. But....it did make us feel like Westerners again. It was so clean and everything worked well and there were nice shops and Stace realised that she missed wearing nice clothes and heels and make up. Plus now really wants a Louis Vuitton bag. Anyway, we didn't have time to see any of the sites but are heading back for a 2 day stop-over in May so will do some sightseeing then. Of course this flight hadn't been changed either, as w...