After the nightmare mini van journey we were both a little spaced out to say the least. We got up fairly late and managed to make it over to breakfast just in time. We had booked ourselves into the number one hotel in Vang Vieng because, since we had ruled it out as way too expensive, it had halved in price and was offering 2 nights get 1 free!! We couldn't believe our luck :-)! Even better we got upgraded to a better room when we arrived as they weren't full. It...

Next stop after the Bornean jungle was Hanoi in Vietnam. We arrived on Friday night and, after a slightly stressful time at the airport trying to work out which taxi we could trust to take us into town (there are loads of cons including taking you to their mates rubbish hotels which happen to have the same name as yours!) we made it to our hotel. After a couple of weeks of cheap hostels we had decided to book a slightly more expensive hotel in the city centre a...