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Homeward bound (very late posting!!)

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A crude representation of where we went After saying bye to Amy I got the bus to Ho Chi Minh where I had a night before my flight the next day to Bangkok. The bus ride was fairly uneventful but not particularly fun.  It was a sleeper bus which I was excited about until I realised I had chosen totally the wrong seat - never choose the seat at the back, it's in a row of 4 and the seats are fully reclined and you cannot sit up at all, plus you have a very low roof on top of you.  They're rather claustrophobic and you get to know your neighbour quite well.  Mine was a boy who kept touching my bum (couldn't work out if it was intentional or not) and next to him were a sickly couple, the man was ill, coughing and spluttering under a blanket even though it was a million degrees, and his wife who was constantly vomiting.  I feared for my health. The advertised 6-8 hour journey took 9 hours and i was the only English speaker on the bus which made it fairly lo

Vietnam - Dalat

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The journey to Dalat was a relatively quick four hours, however the beautiful winding mountain road was causing someone (Amy) some anguish who I think was convinced we would plough over the edge.  At least she wasn't throwing up like our other passengers.  Turns out the Vietnamese get very travel sick.  At one point we swerved and screeched to a halt, we had run into a herd of cows. No casualties though.  Each time something like that happens you do wonder if the drivers are very skilled or just very lucky. We arrived and got a free minibus to our hotel, it turns out that the bus company we'd been religiously travelling with do free transfers to your hotel from the bus station and it's a trick we have definitely been missing!  Setting out to explore, we hadn't done much research and didn't know where the centre of town was.  We headed the wrong direction and it started to pour it down.  A bit miserable and wet we recouped in a local cafe with WiFi and