28th October So we'd booked ourselves onto a 2 day 3 night trip up the Mekong Delta which would also get us across the border to Cambodia and then to the capital, Phnom Penh. Slightly apprehensive to start with as we boarded a coach full of about 30 people (turns out they combine the 1 day / 2 day and 3 day trips as the first days itinerary is the same!). After a short boat trip our first stop was a coconut candy farm which was pretty impressive. People of t...

24th October After a relaxing and sun filled few days in Nha Trang we reluctantly got on our last sleeper bus in Vietnam and headed for Ho Chi Minh City. After managing to shove some people off the back row (inadvertently, I'll add) we settled down and managed to get some sleep, despite what seemed to be our bumpiest ride yet! We arrived at about 6am and found our hostel down some small side alley with no problems - run by what seemed to be a never ending famil...

20th October After arriving at 5:40am we made the short walk to our hotel and were able to check in straight away.We had booked the hotel in Hoi An at $12 a night, but when we were asked if we had booked the $12 or $15 a night room wecouldn't remember and just said probably the $15 a night.With that we arrived at the door of our room and the lady let us in.She went right the way through the room and opened up another door which led to our very own balcony!It w...

16th October We make the most of check out at 12 noon and lie in before packing up the bags once again. Just enough time to grab some lunch and another free Vietnamese tea from the hotel staff before heading to catch another sleeper bus to Hoi An. This time it was only a four hour ride and, thank god, the bus was a lot plusher than the last one. On went the ipods and we relaxed and just took in the various scenes of Vietnam. We passed through Danang on the way ...

12th Ocotber So our sleeper train arrived back in Hanoi at abut 6am and we quickly realised that we had to wait until 7pm the same evening to catch our sleeper bus to Hue. Found a nice little hotel that let us pay less to stay there until about 4.30pm so we could sleep some more and freshen up - money well spent!! We raced around Hanoi one last time - visiting the temple on Hoan Kiem Lake and trying out some more street food - until we finally boarded our sle...