The last few days have been spent in Halong Bay and Hanoi in the north of Vietnam. Halong Bay is a world heritage site and one of the seven new wonders of the world. We took a two day/ one night tour round the bay on a small cruise ship with 9 cabins. All our wonderful food was included as well as activities including visiting the 'surprise cave', swimming on a beach on one of the thousands of islands and kayaking (where we nearly got ran over by another cruise s...

So last time I wrote a blog entry we had two trips to look forward to- one of them has to be one of the best days of my life! Trip 1- All Lao Elephant Camp and Kuang Si waterfall. This was a full day trip 9-4. It began with us travelling to the elephant camp for elephant trekking through the countryside and down the Mekong River. So so amazing, definitely one of the best experiences I have ever had! We could then go in the Mekong and bathe with the elephants sat ...

The night markets in Chiang Mai were lovely and we came across some lively streets with bars and clubs all along on our way as well as some huge luxurious hotels! We got picked up ready to start our journey to Laos yesterday morning at 10am, arriving at border control to get our visas at around 4pm. On our way we stopped at the White Palace at Chiang Rai which was absolutely stunning if not a bit disturbing eg hundreds of hands coming up from the ground as if th...

We started our journey from Manchester Airport UK, flying to Doha where we switched planes to take us through to Bangkok. We flew with Qatar Airways and I was really impressed with the service and comfort on both flights! On arrival at Bangkok we made our way to the main train station HuaLamphong at around 3pm expecting to get a night train ticket for that night- don't try it! We couldn't buy one and so had to go for a 10 hour night bus to reach our first destina...