They say the best way to travel in Vietnam is with your eyes closed, and after travelling nearly 1800km and several near head on collisons with rather large trucks I swear never to moan about National Express again. Well yes we are now in Ho Chi Minh, the place where everyone is your friend, for a price. I can't say that I've enjoyed Ho Chi Minh much, it was a lot bigger than I thought with more people trying to rip you off constantly, it became rather tiring ...

From Hanoi we have slowly been making our way south to Ho Chi Minh City. We bought an open bus ticket giving us the flexibility to hop on and off where we like. 1st stop was Nimh Binh which was basically a ghost town. We walked around on the first night looking for a bar and found nothing but signs for Karoke, so making the best of a bad situation we decided to stop at one for a drink, we were lead into somebody's front room which they had set up for westeners to...

What an amazing place Hanoi is, we absolutley love it here, the place has got such a wicked atmosphere, it's so much better that Bangkok. It can be a nightmare trying to find your way around as none of the streets are at 90 degree angles to one another, but with Carlos the map reading expert close at hand we've managed. The traffic here is really intense with over 2 million motorbikes on the road, so as you can imagine crossing the road is fun, the trick is to sh...