We were up early again for our 3 day tour of the Mekong Delta in which we were told included 3 meals (a lunch and 2 brekky's), two nights accommodation in a hotel, a visit the biggest floating market, and then taken up the river to Cambodia. The trip started well and we were taken by boat to a small market, then off to a small village where we saw how coconut sweets are made. Then we had a bike ride to a small eatery where our "free" lunch was waiting f...

Saigon aka Ho Chi Min City was a 4 hour journey from Mui Ne. We heard that Saigon was a bit like Hanoi but bigger and busier, but upon driving through we found it a much more pleasant place and than Hanoi. Again our first job was to find a room and we did so in a small guest house that was situated on a really small back alley called Mrs Huy's. It was ran by a little old lady who I presume was Mrs Huy, it only cost us $12 for the room between the three of us a...

As I explained in our last blog, we had arranged to meet our friends Pat and Paul in Mui Ne for the new year and when getting on our bus from Nha Trang to here there thy were on our bus, so for the next few days we were now a fivesome again! Mui Ne is a small beach village four hours south of Nha Trang, we decided to come here on the recomendation of other travellers who said that it was a far nicer beach than most other places in Vietnam and it has a nice vil...

When reading in the Lonely Planet book, Nha Trang is highlighted as one of the main areas that tourists visit in Vietnam if you are looking for a nice beach... so another 12 hour overnight bus journey down from Hoi An and here we are! The over night bus we took down was once again a really nice bus with proper beds so we all managed to get at least some sleep inbetween the driver slamming on his breaks every 2 mins and papping his horn every 10 seconds, but that...

We are now in Hoi An which is a smallish town halfway down the east coast of Vietnam. Before arriving here we had heard a lot of good things about Hoi An as its a really authentic Vietnamese town with no high rise buildings at all, but mostly because its the tailoring capital of the world! After reading up a little before arriving and speaking to other travellers who had just come form here, we discovered that you could get any peice of clothing tailor made f...