************************************************************************************** Reports will be very short from here on - if I write something at all. I will update it with pictures from home. So everyone who will not have the pleaure going through millions of picture with me personally can reads his/her way through my trip. I will just u...

Beers, Hookers and the Police. Touch down in Hanoi. It only took about 30 minutes after arriving in the country to have my first car accident here. Well, not me the taxi driver and a tourist on a motorbike. I saw this bloke struggling on the bike from about 50m away. His face was white. Then he hit the side of the car with his shoulder. He was u...

17 hours on a bus allows for a certain amount of thinking time. Here's a few interesting nuggets we came up with: - We really love "Beauty and the Beast" but it's not as re-watchable as other Disney flicks due to the painfully heartbreaking Father scenes. - Nikki created a really catchy mix of the songs "I like the way you move - Outkast" and "T...

We are in a completely new country of sorts.  Hanoi, the capital, is far north and a mysterious world known for its much less friendly and more cutthroat citizens as compared to Saigon.  VN is a very mixed up world.  It is a communist society that is currently fully embracing commercialism.  Its rebellious and warrior spirit ...

We're staying in the Viet Anh Hotel November 23, 2007 Got in to Hanoi, no problems.  The driver from the hotel was right there to meet us, and our luggage even made it unscathed.  Drivers here are very slow.  Verrrrrrrry slowwwwwww.  We hit 80 kph on the way from the airport, and the driver shifted into 5th gear for the blind...

our first full day in hanoi.  There's some strange band of musicans that plays outside our hotel.  very exotic sounding, but they started at 5am.  We got up early and walked to Ho Chi Minh's stilt house and presidental palace.  We wanted to visit his preserved remains at the Mausoleum, but he gets shipped off to Europe in nov...

I have been in Hanoi for a couple of days now, and what happened to us yesterdays was just surreal!! We (the french guys and I) arrived here with a sleeper bus from Hue. It was a rough night because we didn't sleep much (the music was on all the night, and on top of it we didn't quite fit on the beds- the guys had more troubles than me though!),...

I arrived fairly late into Hanoi and found a Mini bus heading to the city outside of the Airport that cost $2 into the City.  After giving the guy in the Minibus the equivalent of about 3.50 he pretended that I hadn't given him any money.  After arguing for a while another guy gave me my change and we were off.  The bus dropp...

We left Hong Kong on Thursday evening, taking an overnight coach, complete with tiny beds, to Nanning. The plan was to stay in Nanning for the day and then catch an overnight train to Hanoi, but upon arriving at the coach station found out we could get a coach for less than half the price that was leaving 30 minutes later. This seemed like the b...

So you may have read that i was in Bangkok and KL briefly but noticed there no pins for them. As they were short visits, i won't include them, and i am going back to them at a later date. So i left Bangkok on Sunday morning, and caught my flight to Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, or as the allied soldiers call it, "Nam". Vietnam is the one destinatio...