We caught a bus from Vientiane to Hoi An in the middle of Vietnam.This turned out to be the worst journey of my life which ended up taking 29 hours,half of which was spent on a local bus filled well over capacity where no-one spoke English.The journey culminated in a 10km motorbike ride to get to Hoi An where we then had to trek around in the pissing rain at 1am to find a hotel.
Hoi An was very nice and there was a big beach down the road we went to but we were all still recovering from 'that' journey.We spent 3 days here then got a bus,a proper air conditioned bus finally,to Nha Trang.This is meant to be the next up and coming place in the mould of Ko Phangan,and I could see why.Although it wasn't that busy as it was the wrong season,there was a hell of a lot of bars and the beach was awesome.We stayed here for 5 days and the weather was absolutely stunning and it provided me with a great opportunity to get my tan on.We went out every night,played a lot of pool and it was good fun.From here we got a sleeper train to Saigon and this was a city I was really looking forward to. Here we did all the Vietnam War history stuff.We went to the Chu Chi tunnels,which are 250km worth of tunnels stretching to the Cambodian border.We crawled through lots of the tunnels,fired some guns,and visited the War Remnants Museum where there were tanks,planes,helicopters and fantastic,horrifying photos. All the tourist stuff was amazing and something not many people get to see.
From Saigon we got a bus to the Cambodian border and down to the coast to a place called Sihanoukvlle.This was another place which is meant to be turning into a full moon party type of place but it was off season when we stayed there.The beers were very cheap,about 25c per beer, so we drank a lot and the weather was fairly good so caught some rays and played a lot of beach ball.Luckily when it did rain we found a newly opened cinema lounge run by an American so we took all our pirate,40p DVDs we bought in Vietnam there to pass time by.I had a good time it was just a pity we were there in the off season.
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