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We have been in Vietnam for three weeks now, arriving from China by bus into Hanoi.  We couldn't believe all the motorcycle traffic! We were not prepared for the sensory overload of sights, sounds and smells - from stunning mountain vistas with their hill tribes to the Mekong Delta with it's boat people.  We spent a couple of days in H...

Well here we are in Hanoi, been here for 3 days now, haven't seemed to find the time to fill out this until now!!!! After the Aussies beat Thailand it was a case of doing a bit of rushing around (as did quite a few other fans), going to the Vietnamese Embassy to get a visa (24 hour rush visa was 2500 baht as opposed to the normal price of 1000 b...

During our stay in Vietnam, Mike and I took it upon ourselves to try some of the restaurants recommended by the lonely planet website.  To encourage people to actually buy the books the site only listed a few restaurants, one of them being Highway 4.  What caught my eye wasn't the food but the promise of traditional (and not-so-traditi...

My main aim on returning to Hanoi was to arrange to leave before my visa expired. After considering many options the most practical was to fly to Laos. I had heard that the visa on arrival was paper and I wanted a sticker so I spent a day doing visas and flight tickets etc. Despite thinking that it was the weekend when it was a friday I succesfu...

Where to begin? Our time in and around Hanoi since our last post has been action packed! We booked a day trip with ODC (Old Darling Cafe) tour company to the Perfume Pagoda outside of Hanoi. (ODC was referred to us by other travelers. We also recommend them!) A nice trip with beautiful scenery (check out the great photos) which was only marred b...