The four of us arranged a day long trip around the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in a people carrier with a tour guide called Ahn. The DMZ was originally established as a dividing line between former North and South Vietnam and featured as a battle ground during the Vietnamese War. Ahn is a wonderful little fellow. He was a former general during the ...

Didnt get up too early, Went to shops with Ann-Louise and had a nice late beakfast. Had to send my small bag home today as it was geting too much to carry about with me. Didnt cost hardly anthing, plus I got to put a few presents in for family. On our way back from post office bumped into Cat and Andy, went and had some lunch with them and then ...

so we left laos on a public bus (scary as we have heard some not so good stories about the buses and this turned out ot be true). getting to vietnam was insane and confusing. our bus smelts like a cross between oranges and onions which was too pleasant. we finally got to the boarder after a mix of laos karokee and bumpy roads and found the boar...

Last blog a bit wrong. We actually went to Mui Ne and then Nha Trang... Anyway... We got a short bus journey from Sai Gon to Mui Ne; a small beach side town thats just working its way into the guide books. Encompassed by the China Sea to the east and desert to the west Mui Ne is very tropical and has an amazing landscape with huge land dunes, co...

Just realised how many typo's were in my last update. Depends on the **** keyboards you get. The r on this one doesn't work properly so bear with me. I have to hit it really hard. Last I left you we were getting up early for My Son (pronounced Me Sun). Up at 4 - headed downstairs at 5. Found someone asleep on the tiled entrance so bren and I ste...

Well just to show how long a country Vietnam really is, we've now seemingly passed into early Spring: 15C and rain. It's the first time we've needed our jumpers and had to splash out on some plastic rain ponchos before we got too splashed ourselves. We look kinda stupid, Sarah especially so in her yellow number, but we fit right in with the loc...

Greeting from Hue, We are in the Vietnam city of Hue. This in near the DMZ. Some of the fiecest fighting of the war took place here. The battle of Hue was depicted in the movie Full Metal Jacket. The military base Khe Sahn is also somewhat near here. Hue is a beautiful French colonial city. There is even an old French citadel in the center of to...

Quick dash to Hue It rained all night - heavily. It's raining again in the morning - heavily. I'm very glad to be leaving Hoi An because I don't want to be caught in another flood. I like the town more than anywhere else I've been in Viet Nam despite the rain; it's small, people are friendly and helpful, and I haven't felt uncomfortable here, un...

Hallo ihr Lieben, wie versprochen melde ich mich nun aus dem verregneten Hue an der Zentralkueste Vietnams. Die Fahrt mit dem "Reunification Express" (Wiedervereinigungsexpress) hierher war gar nicht so schlimm, wie ich befuerchtete. Ich habe fast die ganze Nacht geschlafen - normalerweise kann ich weder im Zug noch im Flugzeug schlafen. Viellei...

We only stayed in Hue for a couple of days and it was a bit of a non-event in some ways.... We visited the Citadel (the original capital - till 1945) and found it didn't meet our expectations (although expectations are usually a bad thing to have!). It was interesting in the sense that it was pretty much abandoned - so consisted of neglected bui...