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Cham Tower on the way to Da Lat

An early morning bus took us from Nha Trang on the way to Da Lat, after leaving our passports behind at the hotel, only to have them delivered to me by the hotel owner on a bike just after Joanne ran back to the hotel; a bit confusing. We stopped for lunch at a service station on the way, where...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 11, 2009 from Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Arrival in Da Lat

Da Lat was a French colonial summer highland retreat, much like Shimla in India was to the English. The road was quite like the one to Shimla, but the driver thankfully was not as murderous/suicidal as the one on my trip to Shimla. The guide book talks of the obvious French influence in the...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 11, 2009 from Da Lat, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Whistle-stop Nha Trang

The guide books are fairly disparaging of Nha Trang, so we didn't plan to spend long there, however a slight error when booking our buses meant that we were staying there only one night instead of two; but we didn't mind because we were going to go to Mui Ne later, which is supposed to be a much...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 10, 2009 from Nha Trang, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Last day in Hoi An

The last day in Hoi An was quite quiet. I bought a mystery thing in a banana leaf parcel, which turned out to be a sweet glutinous rice ball, stuffed with coconut; very nice! I bought Sellotape from a stall at the market, where a pair of very cheeky girls tried brazenly to rip me off. After...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 9, 2009 from Hoi An, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Full Moon Festival in Hoi An

We started the day with two excellent coffee shakes. Nice and strong. The weather looked like it had turned in our favour again, so we hired a couple of bicycles (10000 dong each) and headed off to the beach, passing through some lovely agrarian scenes on the way; the countryside never seems...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 8, 2009 from Hoi An, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Arrival in Hoi An

From Hue we got the sleeper bus again, except this time during the day, to Hoi An. Arriving in Hoi An, we were hassled by loads of hotel touts, but we were determined not to reward them with commission for hassling people and trudged around looking for hotels from the Rough Guide. We were...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 7, 2009 from Hoi An, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Brrrrrrooooomm!

Free from the tyranny of eggs, we went for a Vietnamese breakfast the way it should be: noodles. Having seen the Imperial City the day before, most of what remained to see nearby was further than walking distance, so we decided that the traffic here was sane enough to hire a moped. Great fun!...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 6, 2009 from Hue, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Goodbye to Cat Ba, hello Hue

At the hotel it was eggs for breakfast again, then off to a much nicer boat that the one we'd stayed on, to sail back to Ha Long City. We said goodbye to the dragons and took the last photo in Ha Long Bay. At Ha Long City, we were taken to a terrible tourist trap restaurant where a hall full of...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 5, 2009 from Hue, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Cat Ba Island

The morning we woke up on the boat, I took advantage of the fact they obviously don't check or clean out the furniture very often, to leave my first bookcrossing.com contribution: I left Paddy Clark ha ha ha in the drawer above the vodka bottle in the hope that another (English-speaking)...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 3, 2009 from Cat Ba, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Leaving Hanoi and Ha Long cruise

By Monday, when we were due to leave Hanoi, we had had enough of the breakfast at the hotel. On Saturday morning, we were asked "Eggs?" when we arrived at breakfast, so we said "ok", although I really wanted the noodles with beef, chillies, peanuts, and beansprouts that the staff were eating...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on February 2, 2009 from Ha Long, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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