Day 2 started badly! I set off from Cam Thuy, my guest house did not do breakfast. As you have probably gathered by now my whole world revolves around food!! It was the last day of the Tet festival and again nowhere was open, so I rode on, and on and on and on. Until I'd done 50k and arrived at my destination for the day Thuong Xuan, still searching for food. I was going under, i really needed to eat! Eventually there was a cafe open and happy to feed me. Never ...

Day 1 solo cycle tour! Roo and I had to part company- I have to head to Laos and Roo is heading off to central Vietnam. We stayed last night in Ninh Binh, which due to Tet was a ghost town. We found a hostel for very cheap and that was pretty much the only thing open! On arrival at the guest house was a couple if chinese chaps who were also cycle touring- they were heading south but seemed keen to come towards Laos with me. I was really happy about the prospect o...

Tomorrow is Tet the start of the new lunar year, Chinese new yr. This is a massive celebration in Vietnam and China. Pretty much everything shuts down, everyone gets 4 days public holiday and it's party central! Or so we were led to believe... We spent Tet in Mui Ne aka tourist central. The posters said that there would be "pyrotechnics on the beach, beach bonfire, fire dancing and dancing girls from HCMC", we couldn't have been more underwhelmed! The bonfire fiz...

We woke early this morning after our first night without alcohol! After an early morning run we had an easy morning on the beach- unfortunately we both seemed to catch the sun rather a lot whilst walking on the beach despite the HIGH factor! I'm slowly developing a patch work effect of burn/ tan all over my body- not a good look! After lunch took a jeep to explore the sand dunes and a waterfall just out of the town. We had to walk about 1k down the 'fairy strea...

We had an over night stay In HCMC to collect our laundry amongst other things. As we had eaten nothing all day on the bus ride we treated ourselves to a proper restaurant- we choose this Korean place as neither of us had eaten korean food before so we thought is would be a nice change and they had a good vegi menu for Roo. the place seemed quite smart- Roo and I rock up in sweaty clothes, wild hair- probably not smelling too fresh. We ordered our food the things ...