Sleeping bus from Hoi An to Nha Trang was actually pretty good! Tom could pretty much fit in the bed and the air con actually worked! Charlie's did leak on her for a bit though, until engineering cunning and a poncho fixed it. But we settled down pretty well with Vietnamese crushed into every spare bit of space in the bus including the aisle. Arrived in Nha Trang at 6AM to see a very busy beach full of Vietnamese swimming, exercising and doing something similr...

We think we've hopefully turned a corner on the bad stomachs and general ill feelings we've been having recently. Hopefully two days of bed rest has done the trick. Armed with optimism we boarded our bus to Hoi An. Four hours later we were dropped off at some hotel on the outskirts and promply set upon by its inhabitants with offers of rooms. We bartered hard and got them down from $15 to $10 dollar but then they decided they had no double rooms left. Un put of...

The train ride was easily the worst journey of the trip so far. Once again we had the carridge with the broken AC so it was warm and had plenty of locals talking loudly. We managed a bit of sleep but were both feeling pretty rough the next morning. Our arrival into Hue was delayed by 2 hours so we spent 15 hours sat on the train and really couldn't wait to get off! Finally making our arrival in Hue we took the first sensible offer of a hotel that we could just...

Early start to catch our "hard sitting" train, and "hard sittng" it most definitely was! It looked like a load of rudimentary park benches, and of course we were the only tourists in sight. As we found our numbered bench we noticed that a group of Vietnamese men decided too change seats and move to sit next to us. Even though my first thought was to hug my bag close to me, they turned out to be a really friendly bunch of guys (who may or may not have already be...

Following a nice nap at our new hotel "Stars Hotel" we were ready for a touristy day in Hanoi. We headed next door to our guesthouse for breakfast. There was another couple from Belgium having breakfast at the same time and we agreed to share a taxi to go see the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. A short taxi ride and we were dropped on a very wide street that looked perfect for staging communist military style parades. There were guards everywhere, in very smart white an...