I finally managed to drag myself away from the designer swimming pool in Mei Nu and was undecided where to go next. Would it be the beaches at Nga Trang, the cultural quarter that is Hoi An or the former war zone of Hue. Since I'd spent the last 5 days quite literally on my lying on my back doing nothing I thought that a little culture was in order so Hoi An it was. Little did I know when making this decision that I would spend the next 17 hours on a bus, ye...

So the Intrepid trip finished in Saigon. It took 8 hours on the bus to get there from Phnom Penh and after the bus journey we were all a bit jaded. I had it in my head that I wouldn't like Vietnam, I've been doing that with everywhere I've been. I start with thinking I'm not going to like this place and within a day I love it. Saigon is mental , there really isn't another way to describe it. It's dirty, polluted, noisy and it seems like it's full of pe...

What to do, What to do????? I'm currently living it up in Vietnam (I'll post details later) and I'm undecided on where to go next, so I'm calling on all you lovely people to help me out... Option 1: Stay in Vietnam until my visa runs out on the 16th and head for Bali as planned. Option 2: Stay in Vietnam until the 16th and then head for the beaches in Malaysia and bum around there until the F1 race weekend on the 3rd - 5th of April and then head to Bali Opt...

I was happy to leave the absolute chaos of Saigon behind, so happy in fact that I slept in for the bus to Mui-Ne. It was the first time that I've done that since I've been away, it was such a horrible feeling. Trying to pack (yes I know I should have done it the night before), get dressed and check-out of the hotel and down to the bus stop in less than 20 minutes. Thankfully I managed it - maybe not so thankfully for the people who had to sit next to me on the...