The 7 hour train journey to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) went quite quickly, our seats were quite comfortable and were even given aeroplane-style food for dinner. They played a really weird movie about Kung Fu and football, which must have been sponsored by Puma, for all of their sportswear on show throughout. After, they played some really bad music, particularly of kids singing. I decided it was time for my iPod and a bit of Andrew WK to drown out the noi...

I got the bus in the evening with Vic and Einar, which was to last 12 hours until we arrived in Nha Trang. I actually caught some sleep and was only awoken for the odd toilet stop and hijacker. Oh yeah, some guy tried to hijack our bus when we stopped but our driver was alert enough to block the doorway, fight him and push him off the bus.We arrived in Nha Trang at about 6am, and following our 'hard-ball' negotiating skills, we managed to haggle down the ...

On the bus from Hue to Hoi An, I sat next to a Norweigan guy named Einar. He spoke very good English and entertained us with some magic tricks (he earns money as a magician aside from studying). The bus dropped us off at a nice and reasonably cheap guest house, so once we were settled, I chilled out by the pool (yes, it had a pool and a gym as well!!) and got chatting to a couple of girls. One was an aussie girl, Teagan, and the other was called Chloe...from the ...

Our night-time bus journey to Hue should have been an uneventful trip, allowing me to sleep right through the night. At about 1am, we stopped, I believed at first for a toilet break. Vic came back on to the bus to tell me to come and see outside, and bring my camera. The truck in front of us had jack-knifed and was lying on its side taking up most of the road. Even though it was 1am, traffic was building up, since this was one of the only main coastal roads runni...

And I thought Bangkok was crazy! On leaving the airport at around 7pm, after a delay caused by our mini bus driver to pick up as many passengers as we could, we set off in the mayhem that was the Hanoi traffic. I knew from Thailand and Laos that drivers beep their horn when overtaking, but in Vietnam it's ridiculous!The minibus dropped us off in Hanoi's Old Quarter and we were immediately mobbed by a group of kids trying to sell us a room in their guest h...