This is going to be a very long entry as we absolutely LOVED Hoi An!! We stayed in a hostel called the Sunflower hotel which was really sociable as there was a pool and pool side bar -luxurious! Every morning we had the infamous buffet breakfast which consisted of an array of fruits, cooked vietnamese food, bread and jam and pancakes and omletts made to order!! Over the week in which we stayed in our dorm we had an interesting mix of people from 4 men who never ...

Set our alarm at 9:58 so that we had 2 minutes to make it downstairs for our free breakfast. Had the usual chocolate bannana pancakes - definitely a tradition that I wish to continue when i get back home!! Josh, Seb Kristina and I decided to take out mopeds to explore the town (SORRY MUM!) Seb taught me how to drive one in about 30 seconds and then we were off. I was amazed at how easy it was to pick up! For the first leg I drove with Kristina on the back. We d...

On Saturday night we got our first Sleeper train from Hanoi to Hue. The begining to our journey wasnt fab, as the taxi driver dropped us off around the back of the station so we had to run with our bags to try to find the way in!! We made it to our train and found that we were sharing with a guy form Luxembourg and his girlfriend from Germany. They were training doctors on their placement in a hospital in hue! We managed to sleep for most of the time, but the air...

On Thursday (7/03/13) we got a cyclo to take us to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum - which proved tricky as he tried cahrging us 70,000 each rather that the 70,000 agreed!! We were helped out by a guy who rode past and settled the bill for us and then just drove off -we were speachless! The Mausoleum was so surreal, we queued up uniformly along the parade ground and shuffled past the guards, who were dresses in the most amazing, pristine white uniforms. The Australian gr...

After the 11.5 hour plane journey to KL (Kuala Lumpur) it was so nice to get of the plane and feel so at home in the airport. It was sooo western - even had a Victoria's secret buut...the toilets werent so western :( we got the high speedshuttle to the satelite terminal and then our next 3 hour flight to Hanoi which we slept through as we were now shattered! We had an hour bus ride from the airport to the city centre-where we experienced the fearlessness of the V...