Crossing roads: Take care when crossing the roads (even at pedestrian crossings!). I honestly could of spent hours trying to cross the road, nobody stops for you as you walk onto the road. I learnt if you walk with confidence across the road at a steady pace the mopeds will swerve around you.

Limited English: As I’ve mentioned above, not many people seemed to speak English here, so trying to get on a bus when we had little clue where and when to get off was difficult. The receptionist of our hotel tried to help us and wrote down in Vietnamese directions for our bus driver to tell us when to get off however when we handed this to the bus driver, he asked the passenger behind to read it out loud as he couldn’t read, he also didn’t tell us when our stop was so we guessed and definitely got it wrong!

Plan: I am a planner usually but with the ease of getting around Bali and with a lot of museums/ historical trips planned I thought it would be quite easy to get around the centre and plan spontaneous activities in our free time as and when they arose. I do regret this as we had so much difficulty navigating with transport and not many people speaking English. I think this is partially why we ended up flying out to a different Island to try something new when we still had a week left planned to be in Ho Chi Minh.