Well there it was the rain pouring down as we entered Saigon on the sleeper bus. It had been raining a few hours now and the water level was rising so we new we were going to get wet so we got out our raincoats and waited as the bus pulled over. Time to get off. People where just waiting on the bus to see if the rain would stop but we got fed up waiting so Rob and I leaped of the bus into a massive puddle , grapped the bags and ran quickly as we were getting soat...

So after Hue we arrived in Hoi An. We checked into the first guesthouse we arrived at which had an indoor swimming pool (this time not green), and free bicycle rental. Our first day, and we are ready to go on our bikes (not the best it must be said). We headed into town and after some breaky we hit the many tailors shops that litter the town, Hoi An being one of the best places to get clothes made at a very cheap price. One after the other we searched for the per...

So after a long night on the uncomfortable sleeper bus, we went in search for a place to stay. Through the streets of Hue we were being stalked by vietnemese trying to offer us a room in their guesthouses. We were eventually convinced by a guy whos hotel, supposedly, had a swimming pool. Picturing a cool fresh swimming pool we followed him for what seemed like ages, spirits high thinking that we were gonna have a cool down in the pool... the pool was not exactly ...

Determined to save some money and not get ripped off by tour operators, we booked a bus to ha long bay to then organise things when we arrived.. The 4 hour bus journey got us to ha long bay for about 11.30, we were immediatly approached by tour touts, selling us trips around the islands.. still determind to do things our way, we caught a taxi to the town to find a tour office and look for a better offer there, we ended up however in the hotel of one of the touts ...

We caught our flight from Loas to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, the flight was a mere hour and twenty, on a small propella plane, we got on a shuttle bus from the airport and took the 45 min journey into the town, immediatly we were amazed by the amount of motos, and their frantic road laws, it seems that whoever honks their horn the loudest or has the bigger vehicle wins.. luckily our driver was horn happy and our mini bus was alot bigger than the mopeds so we ...