With temperatures in Saigon simmering just below 40 degrees, i felt i needed a break. I found it in the highland city of Dalat. To get there I was introduced to one of the wonders of Vietnamese tourism: the open ticket buses. The great advantage of these is that they are actually very cheap and will pick you up from your hotel - rather than you ...

Hoi An is a sleepy village in central Vietnam, famous for the many tailor shops that line the streets where you can get ridiculously cheap clothes made. Not much use to me as I don't need any more clothes to carry around while travelling but still Hoi An was a cool town to hang out in for a few days. On our first night we were planning on having...

Marble Mountain, new threads & more beach time.... Buddhas, cuff-links & cloudless skies.... Caves, climbing & golden sand.... Plates of fried prawns after plates of fried prawns.... These are a few of our favorite things.

moving on from Mui Ne we had our first experience of a sleeper bus,its a bus with beds...kind of so you can gently fall asleep whilst you travel the country and wake up fresh and ready to see new things....well not quite. the tour bus drivers are budding race drivers and masters that famed musical instrument the horn. a typical night will involv...

Our overnight bus journey from Nha Trang was about as good as any bus journey for a 6 ft man in a 5 ft 8 space can be. It would have been a whole lot better if the driver hadn't beeped so much, not sure why he needed to with so little traffic on the nighttime roads in the middle of the night. That was the downfall of the front row seats we got b...

We had free internet at this hotel so thought id make the most of it there, pretty sad i know but i felt so drained from all the travelling. We got up early to go visit Ho Chi Minhs dead body. We had to line up for hours with hundreds of other people to go and see him, apparently everyone once in their lifes should go and pay there respect to hi...

Hoi An is known for its architecture and the old streets. However, there just happens to be LOTS of tailors who can replace your whole wardrobe in a day including new shoes made just for you! If shopping is not your gig, you can go to Cua Dai beach to chill out! On our first night, we did a "bad" thing (not really but we would not want to do thi...

It only took 40 minutes to reach Hoi An from Danang, so we arrived here fairly early in the day. We splashed out on a more luxurious hotel for 25 USD - our room is very nice and hotel has a rooftop swimming pool! Which came in very useful as the weather was very hot. Hoi An is Unesco world heritage site (like Luang Prabang) so all the old coloni...

After a tiresome 9 hour train ride from Nha Trang we have arrived in the old port of Hoi An. Like Dalat it was untouched in the war (a gentleman's agreement), it still has a lot of French architecture and lots of history as you wander round the walking tour into pagodas and 200 year old family homes. There are clothes shops everywhere selling h...

Our hostel in Hoi An is pretty nice. We have a/c and they clean the room daily. All for $12. It's called Dai Lang hotel. We woke up this morning and went to have breakfast at a restaurant that the Irish girls from the home stay recommended--Cargo Club. By this time it was almost noon so it was really more of a brunch. This city is so beautiful! ...