After our late night we have a lie in today. We eventually peel ourselves out of bed and head to the sand dunes. We decide we'll get something to eat when we get there. As we approach the area kids coming running from everywhere trying to get us to rent sleds to slide down the dunes. We aren't interested, but it doesn't stop their persistence. Elias picks a spot for us to stop. It is pricey. So we just order some coffee. First of all, they take so long to bring t...

6am comes and 6am goes. We wake up but are so tired that we just go back to sleep again. We do manage to get in to the sea for 8am so it wasn't a complete disaster. The water is fresh this morning, if fact to be honest it is pretty cold when I get in, hesitation on my part prolonging the shock. When I do get in it is great, just swimming out in the sea before a day on the bike, this is the life. We swim over to the shore and clamber out on to the beach for a look...

Up at a reasonable time, some delicious muesli and get the girls loaded up. The plan is to Da Lat today. Another hot day, you know I think I am going to stop talking about it being a hot day. Suffice to say that every day hot, just some crank the level right up. As Jessie has not been on the rip for the past few days the electric starter is a no go. I'm pretty sure that the battery in my girl is not the best, it'll hold a little charge overnight from a days worth...

Up early and have some of the lovely muesli that we got yesterday. It's not exciting but it does the job of keeping hunger at bay. We are down promptly for 8, though I don't know why, as I have been on a few tours and I know that we operate on Vietnam time, not real time. True to form I think it is closer to 9 before we are picked up. On to a little bus and we stop at a couple of hotels to pick up some more people. The usual obnoxious English making up some of ou...

Big lazy day today. Crawl out of bed after midday to go down and get a coffee. We end up picking this place that does western coffee, so we get ourselves an Americano, nice to have a change from the Vietnamese coffee. I decide that my leg is not making the progress that I would like, so I decide to go to a pharmacy and see what the craic is. Although her english is good, the medication that she has does not have much English. I look at various tablets and creams ...