We seriously underestimated the size of Vietnam! trains and buses, 37 hours and counting.... Our journey began from Hanoi to Hue, 15 hours on a sleeper train with cockroaches, we killed 4 in the first hour b4 sleep overcame our fear. Tired and cranky from lack of sleep, we made a quick exit from Hue the following day. We had a well deserved break on China Beach after a three hour bus trip. Day trip to Marble Mountains, ran from charging bull on deserted road (that was really a mooing cow crossing the road). Then, entering a cave in the mountain we swindled death once more by narrowly avoiding a deadly snake (grass snake, more afraid of us than we were of him!). Nursed our sun burn in picturesque Hoi An for a day. Then we
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