Thought bus was due to leave at 8:30am to go to Da Lat but turns out it was 8:15am so once again had staff at hostel chasing us up to get us in gear..... Think they must be glad we are now off so they can have a rest from chasing around after us!!! Had pre-booked into a hotel in Da Lat and the coach actually driopped us off outside this particular hotel so very convenient, ended up with a lovely twin room very clean and spacious with a double bed each, TV, fridge...

Good Morning Vietnam, and Xin Chao to one and all. I arrived at Ho Chi Minh airport at about 11am since they are 1 hour behind China. As I exited the airport I tried to locate the bus stand to get a local bus to my hostel in the backpacker area of Pham Ngu Lao. As I attempted this I was greeted by numerous taxi drivers telling me bus no longer runs etc etc. It was ver similar to what I experienced in India and greatly differant to what I had experienced over the...

Had my first delayed flight on way to Singapore due to a passenger becoming ill on plane. They were calling on announcement for a Doctor and paramedics helped a guy off plane (and I thought I didnt like flying!). Arrived in Singapore late afternoon and took a metro to Chinatown where I was staying in a hostel. The metro was a long long journey and was not helped by the fact it was rush hour so they were jammed packed with commuters.......Doh. Once arrived at Chin...

I arrived in Hong Kong the following morning after a long train journey and said my farewells to the Irish lads and Vicky who I had traveled with a bit in Beijing and Shanghai. Jumped on the metro and followed the directions given to me by Ben (who for those who dont know is a friend who lives in HK), to the stop I needed to take. Fantastic metro system very modern and extremely easy to use I was clearly not going to get lost here which would make for a pleasant ...

Arrived in Shanghai in morning and attempted to get metro to hostel but was chaos so gave up and jumped in taxi. Once here booked into dorm and went to have a look around. Saw Rob from manchester who i had met in Beijing and he told me that vicki from Beijing was also here. That made my day because after a couple days of being in Luoyang and being limited to speaking about 10 words max in last couple days I needed some english people to have a conversation with, ...