Sorry for the long delay in writing our blogs we've been doing a lot of travelling, resting and planning in the past few day. But we've found the time to catch you all back up to speed with our travelling. Hoi An is a beautiful riverside town, one of the most stunning we have visited in Vietnam. It was an area that avoided the heavy bombing during the Vietnam War. The town is classified as a UNESCO site due to its well preserved buildings and street plan and is...

There are many ways you can travel from Hue to Hoi An by train and bus, but we opted for hiring a taxi for the 4 hour journey. We had planned on taking the train the whole way down Vietnam, but the trains take longer, and are not always the best option for seeing places. Especially as there isn't a train station in Hoi An, you have to get off at Danang and get a bus and either get taxis or walk alot! Also with it being so rainy we doubted you would see or appreci...

From Dong Hoi we took a 3 hour train in the early evening to the town of Hue. Our train ride was a interesting experience! When we got to the station to purchase our soft seats (air con, soft seated 2nd class) they only had hard seats left (wooden seats, no air con 3rd class). We suprised the ticket lady by taking the hard seat option and not waiting for the next train. I mean we had travelled on crazy Sri Lankan trains how difficult could this be? Well we were...

After our 4 hour trip back from Ha Long, the lovely family staying in our hotel offered us there hotel room to freshen up in before our 10pm overnight train, they were such a lovely family. But the hotel actually offered us a room for free to use that evening! We were shocked by the level of service you'd never get that in the UK!! We met up with the family after having a shower and took them to the restaurant that we loved in Hanoi. We had a lively time listen...

We had been looking forward to out visit to Halong Bay since we originally decided to visit Vietnam; the locals say if you haven't visted Halong you haven't visited Vietnam. However we were a little apprehensive as we had read about the numerous boats and guides messing you around and over charging. In the end we opted for a 2 day tour as we felt it wasn't a trip we could do independently or in 1 day due the distance involved, it was a 4 hour drive away from Han...