By far, my most favourite place in Vietnam!! And the next day we hired scooters for a ride to the waterfalls and up the mountains and ended up having an unexpected adventure.. More photos..   One place to see before you die!

And onto Hanoi.  But my time was running out to return to Japan and I had to decide if I wanted to see Halong Bay or Sapa. For  me, Sapa was a clear choice.. I didn’t spend so much time in Hanoi as I was flying back to Japan within 4 days, so all I…

My bus picked me up 1.5 hours late from my hotel in Hoi An which panicked me a bit, but I finally arrived in Hue to pouring rain! The Tuk Tuk drivers swarmed the bus as usual, but one of them must have bribed the driver because before we were even allowed off one of…

The view from my sleeper bus getting into Hoi An. Magnificent! I was super lucky to be in Hoi An for their monthly lantern festival. It was a gorgeous sight, but hard to capture in a photo.. I also went on a tour to MY SON SANCTUARY – a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Hindu…

One cool thing about travelling through Vietnam is you can buy a sleeper bus route ticket with pre-determined stops of your choice to take you all the way uo (or down) Vietnam but with no time limit. So you hop off at each pre-determined stop (saving money on accommodation for the nights you’re on the…

And still lots more to see in HCM 🙂    

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!!! I am lucky enough to have a Japanese friend, Ayumi living here in HCM to show me around the city and help me acclimatise to Vietnam on my first day here. We went to the War Museum, which was a really difficult experience. We also went to see the church, post office…

I’m so looking forward to seeing Vietnam!! Got up early to catch a ferry down the Mekong River to enter Vietnam from Cambodia.. We left at 8:30 and got off the boat to Cambodia customs at 12:00. Back on the boat to arrive at Vietnam customs at 12:20. We had lunch here. Then Chau Doc…