Our plan was to spend just one night in Nha Trang as we were already short on time and behind schedule. We arrived at about 6:30 in the morning and headed straight to the Backpacker House hostel with Meena and Jag, a couple from London who we had first met in Laos and had ran into again in Hoi An. We stayed in a 14 bed dorm room for $7 a night. Nha Trang is a bit of a party town along the Vietnamese coast with no cultural or historic relevance but we had been...

We arrived in Hue and headed straight for the Backpackers Hostel after being told that if was the only place worth staying in by someone on the Ha Long Bay trip. The hostel cost us $6 a night each but included an air conditioned dorm, breakfast and free beer from 5-6 every day! We dropped our bags in the room and went for a walk to explore the town, making sure that we were back at the hostel for 4:50. The free drink meant that everybody in the hostel gathered in...

Well we arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday afternoon with no real idea of what to do or where to go. We got chatting to a Canadian guy who had been before and he recommended a hostel for us to stay in. Instead of getting a taxi we jumped on a local bus for about £1 each and headed to the old quarter of the city. We got off the bus when they started pointing and shouting at us and were instantly mobbed by taxi drivers and hotel owners. On a side note, I had ripped m...