Well our travels are drawing to a close. Our last full day today. We leave Vietnam tomorrow. Also Argiris' birthday. We spent the day...

I was so excited to do an afternoon cookery course. I'm not sure Argiris felt quite the same initially but we both had such a good time....

City with a large fabric market and Ann meant we had to go. Rolls and rolls of fabric. Took some unsuccessful negotiations and some more...

This drizzling morning we left the hospitable Trang An Legend (https://www.bing.com/maps/?q=Trang+An+Legend&ypid=YN8196x28834588238574454...

The morning was cold and drizzling so the lady from the hotel suggested we go to the Bai Dinh pagoda complex first, one of the largest at...

This is a live blog as the trip unfolds. This is the day of the long rail journey. It was scheduled for 5:30. The rain started in the...

Our hotel was just around the corner from this amazing site. Whilst queuing for entering tickets, we were acosted by young school...

We booked a taxi with stopovers for just under 1500000 vnd. The driver An picked us up at 8:30. We went via Danang the 3d largest city in...

Final look around the old city and the beautiful buildings. Although the streets were relatively quiet at 10am there was a feeling of...

Well Hoi An is unashamingly touristic. Every old house has been converted to a shop or to a restaurant bar apart from the ones that are...

The flight from Can Tho was an hour and 15 minutes. On time and a very smooth flight. After landing in Da Nang, we had a 45 minute taxi...

The title is misleading as Mekong it was but the floating markets were less impressive than the rest. We were picked up at 04:15 and...

A brief blog today. Both quite overcome by the intense heat and humidity this morning in HCM. Not sure why as it was no hotter than other...

An early morning swim in the pool started our day, followed by a feast of a breakfast. Colon., the HCM chinatown occupies approximately a...

There are some times cities that take some time to win you over. There are cities that are difficult to get under their skin. HCM does...

We have just landed to Vietnam where the temp is over 30C in HCM city and the passport queues more like UK. We ll see u on the other side

And no we did not even try to go to the Peak today. We headed to the Tai Kwun complex which is a transformed former jail with art areas,...

It was Annoula's turn to experience night jet lag. Anyway, familiar story starter trying to go towards the Peak only to see another...

The plan today was to go to the peak by the bus 15 that was passing closed to our hotel. After two passed packed without stopping we had...

Statue square is where we met the Hong Kong Free Tours guide. A lovely young lady who took us on a two hour walking tour of the CBD. She...