Our flights today leave Hue airport around mid day, so we've arranged for a transfer to the airport at 10am, which leaves us plenty of time for breakfast (noodles back over the road with our favourite cheap restaurant), then a wander around the local shops. John and Penny have a jewellery store they want to look at, so David, Tina and Chris deci...

HANOI last night we visited the water puppet theatre and it was enjoyable to listen to vietnam music and see the puppets for a one hour show. HALONG BAY Vietnam, Our comfortable mini bus collected us from our hotel. Today it is raining and we need to put on our ponchos to get to the van with our bags. We drive around to collect the other 13 pass...

It is a miracle ! I could finally upload my pictures on Facebook website. But if you haven't done it yet, you will have to register if you want to look at them... If you want to download all the files, I have to fix the link, but I cannot do it right now... We keep in touch ! Lucie.

So i've finally made it to Vietnam after missing my 2 flights and a sleep over in Bangkok airport again. Thankfully i've accommodation sorted thanks to the Jean Marc my Canadian buddie from China. First thing you notice when you get into Hanoi is the motorbikes and how everyone is in a hurry. You take your life in your hands when your trying to ...

... shane: I was NOT prepared for this. It's like Bangkok. But only if Bangkok had spent a night snorting speed and drinking bacardi breezers, and in the morning was coming down pretty bad and all it really wanted was a meatball sub from subway but whenever it tried to eat it the smell put it off and it had to go throw up, thus making bangkok re...

The plan is to now work our way south through Vietnam. The next stop on our itinerary was Hue. It takes about 12 hours to get there though so we decided to do another night train, and to catch that we had to go back to Hanoi. As we expected, tickets were sold out for the next few days. So we had a spend a few days in Hanoi awaiting our train. Th...

Back in the big smoke for a couple of days, just chilled out with Pete and Mike and organised my flights to the UK as I had gotten my Chinese Visa sorted.

Courte nuit dans le train de retour de Sapa. Nous avons partage la cabine avec deux israeliennes , les plus droles du monde ! elles nous adressees la parole une fois, pour nous demander d'eteindre la parole en aboyant... Another night train journey, but thankfully it wasn't so bad this time - we did sleep.

I have spent a few days in Vietnam's capital city and feel I've gotten to know it a fair amount, though I didn't see a ton, so this post won't be too long. It's a pretty busy city (almost as much so as Ho Chi Minh City, with all the motorbikes). I felt as though the entire city was one big monument to Ho Chi Minh; in fact, it's much more Ho Chi ...

SaPa was a gorgeous town, we really enjoyed it there, the view from our room out to the mountains was spectacular, we would sit on the balcony and watch the clouds clear and reveal the green mountains, minutes later right before our eyes, the cloud would roll back over the mountains - beautiful. On our last day we took a jeep into the mountains,...