Today we got away from the 'Ibiza' feel and back into the travelling mode with a day trip to My Son. It was temple ruins in the middle of the mountain valleys that was bombed by the Americans during the war, there were two or three bomb holes around the site. Nobody lives here now, but it's classed as holy land. There were lots of headless Buddhas and other statues, as during the war there was a stage where (I'm not sure who) went round cutting the heads off the ...

Hoi An and our hotel was great it felt like a holiday away from travelling, it was glorious sunshine and our hotel has a pool :) Last night we went for a stroll in the old town and checked out he bustling markets of clothes and good and fruits and ate at a restaurant that looked out over the river to the islands. Today we chilled by the pool this morning, then we hired push bikes and road 4km to the beach, it was such a postcard picture and so hot you jut walke...

Today just got crazier... Somehow I got talked into doing a city tour on the back of a proper motorbike!! It was good, we went to the countryside and villages, we saw the Japanese bridge that was donated to the people and built in 20 days by continual labour from lots and lots of locals. We then went to a tomb, but it was so hot and I was feeling a lazy tourist, so I used the zoom on my camera instead of actually walking up and seeing the things!! There was some...

This morning I arrived back from Sapa and after breakfast the plan was to explore some more of Hanoi before my night bus at 6pm. I started at the Temple of Literature, which was very pretty with its flower designs and architecture. I've decided they think Turtles are sacred here as at the bottom of each tomb stone was a turtle then in the main building was a high gold played Turtle. I then went to the Old Prison Museum. I learnt how it was built by the French d...

Sapa Day Two .... Today we had a 12km trek mainly downhill in the muddiest, slipperiest route down the mountains. It was so funny seeing some people really not able to cope, but I think everyone fell at least once, so for the rest of the day I had a big dirty mud mark all over the left side of my shorts. My fall was trying to get up a bank to find a 'not as slippery' path... I knew it wasn't going to go well when I couldn't even lift my leg high enough to get o...