So we left Vietnam and boarded the plane to Laos. Even though we've been on many flights we are still not very au fait with the whole flying thing. When they came round offering drinks we politely said "we'll just have a water please," thinking anything else would have to be paid for. We noticed the guy next to us was sipping a cool Beer Lao and that he hadn't paid either, so we pushed the attendant button and asked for 2 beers as well. We hadn't quite factored i...

Apologies for the long blog entry, we went a bit tour crazy in Hanoi booking trips to Halong Bay and Mai Chau. We felt it was a good time for using some of our wedding fund money too so thank you to everyone who contributed, we were thinking of you on our tours... So we left Hoi An for Hanoi and again to break up the journey we stopped off half way in a town called Hue. We were only to be in Hue for about 6 hours so planned to walk round the old citadel and visi...

So we left Dalat for Hoi An and to break the journey up had a few days stop over in Nha Trang. The journey down from the Highlands to Nha Trang was a thing of sheer beauty, the rolling hills and waterfalls all along the path made it hard to keep our noses and cameras away from the windows... We had looked into cycling from Dalat which would have been a fantastic way to do the journey if the price hadn't been so extortionate (even the tour agency said 50 dollars o...

Having thouroghly enjoyed Saigon City we moved to a place in the Central Highlands called Dalat. This is the complete opposite to the main Cities as it is set in lush hill sides with plenty of opportunity to get out hiking and explore the countryside. Also the temperature is much cooler and much to our surprise they cultivate similar flowers, fruits and vegetables to England. Home from Home! When we arrived into Dalat we'd actually landed at the end of their fam...

Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the government when North and South Vietnam were reunified. However ask a local and it will always be Saigon... We arrived late into Saigon and once checked into our hotel went out for a meal with our friends from the homestay Sonja and Kimmo. They'd been in Saigon previously so showed us a nice, cheap, little restaurant. They were leaving the next day so after a good chin wag and some beers we swapped emails and said our g...