This is just a quickie post as I'm in Nha Trang right now (!) and we are about to go out for an early dinner as we have a 10 hour (!!!!!!!!!!) sleeper bus down to Ho Chi Minh City (aka. Saigon) leaving at 8pm.
So this has been our route:
Hanoi (the capital) is where we flew into early on Saturday morning, then on Sunday went to Halong bay which was RIDICULOUSLY COOL and we took a sleeper train down the coast to Hue (I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO HOGWARTS! IT WAS AMAZING and, surprisingly enough, quite clean!) where we stayed at a great hostel and saw some really cool tanks, planes and helicopters left over from the war and went through an ancient vietnamese citadel.
On Tuesday morning we took a bus down to Hoi an (the place names got very confusing!) which is the one of the only cities in Vietnam not to have been damaged in the war. IT WAS BRILLIANT! We saw all of old town (ALMOST got tailored dresses but didn't, though I still have one day to complete this personal quest) and in the evening we met this waiter who did tours of his village during the day (I know it sounds really dodgy Mom, I wasn't entirely sure about it either but there were 6 of us and one of him and he showed us all these books of people that had raved about his tours and photos of them all and it looked legitimate and fun so we went for it) and on Wednesday we did the tour and it was by far the best day of the holiday (and also because it was Dad's birthday too - sorry for calling you all through your meetings Dad!) we went fishing and did pottery and his wife taught us how to cook vietnamese food and it was DELICIOUS! Then in the evening we took another sleeper train down to Nha Trang (where we are now) which was absolutely, impassably disgusting, and I was in the upgraded rooms. I couldn't touch anything!!
ANYWAY tonight we are headed to Saigon on a sleeper bus and then I fly back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow night to land at 11.05 my time.
Expect lots of pretty pretty pictures early next week!
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