Our flight back was uneventful apart from a bizarre little stop at a place called Rach Gia which had the bumpiest runway we've ever landed on. Gett…

Back on the motorbikes again heading back to Long Beach to catch up on our sleep after the night time chorus of howling dogs at Bai Sao. Our fi…

Having made the arrangements for two guys from My Lan guesthouse in Bai Sao beach to collect us around 11am from Long Beach, we were a little cau…

We were up at a ridiculous 3.30am to get our taxi to the airport for our flight out of Ho Chi Minh City airport. The drive to the airport at that tim…

After a few days of lazing in bed and strolling down to breakfast at a leisurely 9:30/10:00am, our alarm going off at 6:45am was a bit of a shock to …

Bored with being trapped in Ho Chi Minh City waiting for our visa extension to be issued we booked ourselves onto an organised tour to the Cao Dai Ho…

So here we are in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) back in the busy traffic, noise and pollution that the weeks since Hanoi have released us from. It was such…

Our journey to Mui Ne was probably our best yet in Vietnam. We booked through a tour company called Sinh Cafe which has offices everywhere we've been…

Along the 10km+ beautiful coastline of Mui Ne (closer to Mui Ne market than to Phan Thiet), Pogo Cafe really stands out as someplace special. It is a…

We decided to splurge on Whale Island for new year and were lucky enough to receive an Xmas gift to cover much of the cost, so it was pretty much a g…

We ran the familiar gauntlet of touts on mopeds all wanting to take us to the best and cheapest hotel in town or offering to take us to our hotel but…

Despite our sunburn we had a busy schedule lined up for today as we had lots of chores to do before our evening departure for Nha Trang on the overni…

Another lesson you learn when travelling around Vietnam is that things operate on what the locals call "rubber time". This morning was another p…

Ariving anywhere in Vietnam you are guaranteed a very warm welcome by a throng of touts attempting to cajole you into staying at a hotel where they w…

The trouble with onward travel in Vietnam is that many of the journeys are overnight trips. This leaves an awkward time gap between check-out of hote…

Back in Hanoi we checked into the Golden Buffalo hotel, another place that has mutiple imposters throughout Hanoi so any recommendation is difficult.…

We set off early for a four hour minibus ride to Halong Bay. Bad news for us was that it was overcast and quite misty so our hopes for it being clear…

We landed almost on time and sailed through immigration despite not having an onward ticket booked out of the country which we had been warned might …