Hanoi comes across like Hong Kong without the skyline. The pollution here is quite bad I’ve resorted to wearing a mask like the locals. We spent a lot of time watching all modes of transport weave in and out of each other in honking harmony. Statistics say about 35 people die on Vietnams roads, 11 [...]

This was supposed to be a kind of a reunion trip between a few old Scout mates; some I hadn’t seen for a lot more years than I’d like to admit. However, after finding out that there was a considerable amount of physical exercise involved; ie cycling for 18 days from Ho Chi Min City [...]

If I made anyone feel jealous by my casual namedropping of the South China Sea and my intention to go snorkelling today then you’ll like this entry. It’s for you. The trip was run by the Amazing Snorkeling (sic) Company. Or the Amazingly Grumpy Snorkeling Company. A bus picked me up from the hotel at [...]

Vietnam is expected to welcome more than 460,000 international arrivals in April, up 6.3% against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). In the first four months of the year, the number of international visitors to Vietnam is estimated to reach more than 1.971 million, up 10.5% from a year [...]

Easter Sunday morning saw me going like a good girl to Notre Dame (yes I am in Vietnam and not Paris). The place was rammed which was reassuring. The choir was bloody awful. Soul sorted, I decided to devote the rest of the day to my body and spent the afternoon being massaged and having [...]

Yes. See what they mean about Nha Trang. It is a LOT busier than I was hoping. Sort of Brighton-ish, but I am determined t0 make the best of it. My hotel is lovely and I have a massive room. Another aching rock hard bed though. When I wake up in the morning it takes [...]

Having booked our stress free trip we got up early and headed down to wait for our pick up to get to the docks. The driver arrived on time and a few minutes later we were sat on the boat that would take us to the Cambodian border and into Vietnam. It was a slow [...]

Hue….. We spent a couple of days here and it rained non stop! We arrived in the afternoon after spending the day traveling. We had read that the train ride between Danang and Hue is meant to be stunning so we got off the bus in Danang, caught a moto to the train station and [...]

After almost three days in Ho Chi Minh City, Steph, Rickie, and I were feeling a serious need to get the hell out! The city was overwhelming, difficult to navigate, and really polluted. Thus, we hopped an evening bus to Can Tho, a small town on the Mekong Delta, after having one last meal in [...]

So I haven’t been so awesome about posting…I apologize, and I hope this won’t be a pattern and that I can actually get into some kind of a routine once I’m not traveling anymore. For now, bear with me as I recap almost a week… Having bearly survived Songkran, Steph and I made our way [...]