Wed 8/8 Arrived in Hue around 9:30ish in the morning. Had a hotel with a private room for a change (crazy coz its cheaper than a hostel here!) Still had a dodgy stomach after feeling ill over the weekend so decided to have a relaxing day, after lunch we headed back to the hotel and watched films all afternoon (i slept for a bit) Went out for a late dinner and then caught up with everyone on skype, fine to get it all done in one night as it saves having too many...

Mon 6/8 Still raining today but not as bad as last night. Luckily we have no activities just a boat and bus ride back to Hanoi. Kinda fine coz it keeps the temperature down a bit. Arrived back in Hanoi around 5pm and went for another Italian buffet before having an early night. Tue 7/8 We had planned to head north and do a 3 day trip to Sapa but its forecast rain for the rest of the week so booked a bus down to Hue for tonight instead, hoping to get away from ...

Sat 4/8 Started our Halong Bay trip today, got picked up from our hostel in the morning and drove up to Halong city to catch our boat. It was very nice, much nicer than we were expecting. There was a nice mix of people, a french couple, german couple, australian couple, italian couple and two south african girls. After an amazing seafood lunch we had a bit of time to relax in the sun on top of the boat. The views around Halong Bay were amazing. First on our itin...

Tue 31/7 After only about 4 hrs sleep we headed to catch our bus, at least with it being early there was no traffic and very few people at the bus station! Bus is comfortable enough which is good since we don't know how long its going to take. At about 12ish we stopped for a free lunch which was hardly fit to eat, some sort of fish tasting balls with rice and veg. Surprise, surprise there are guys there ready to change your chinese money for vietnamese. We had h...

Sat 28/7 After a lovely home-cooked chinese lunch fae Berry we said our goodbyes and headed off to pick up our visas fae the hostel. If we thought the staring was bad before it was even worse waiting for the bus wae all our bags. You would think we were the first white tourists to ever visit Nanning. Cant say we will miss it at all! When you are brought up being told staring is rude it is very uncomfortable having so many people so obviously stare at you! Thankf...