Today we are leaving Hanoi on the overnight train to Hué. We weren't leaving until about 7.30pm so we had the whole day to do and see any last minute things in Hanoi. I put my bags in the day room then met the group down stairs for lunch at KOTOs, which stands for "Know One, Teach One". This is a restaurant, which teaches orphans, and street kids skills in the hospitality industry. A lot of the kids have gone on to work in other restaurants all over ...

We arrived back in Hanoi just after lunch, so Susan and I decided to go for a walk around Hanoi and check out some the sites. Walking along the road towards the Museum of Vietnamese Revolution we ran into Marc, Lindsey and Ian who were on their way to KFC for lunch. Deciding to come to the museum with us Marc left Lindsay and Ian and followed along with us. After looking around at the museum, which had so many exhibits to look at, we decided to go and get some...

Today we were heading off to Halong Bay for a night on the boat, but we had heard reports of a cyclone heading that way so we were hoping it would pass us by. We left in the morning for a 4-hour drive where we saw some pretty crazy things along the way. One of the things we saw was a live cow tied to the back of a motorbike. We knew it was live as its tail kept swinging around and not in the way that the wind would. We stopped at a market of some sort where the...

Last night at dinner Matt informed us that there has been a landslide in the north of Lao and that there was a slight possibility that we may not be able to drive to the north of Lao for our home stay. So today we were meeting in the lobby to decide on what to do. Not feeling the best I really didn't care what was decided I just wanted to go back to bed, which is what I did until about 10am. The next day I wondered around for most of the day then I met Susan ...

Today we were supposed to get up at 5am to go to the offering of the arms at one of the Buddhist temples, but due to our late night chat with Marc, and Susan's alarm not going off, oh and the several attempts of Matt banging on our door, we missed it! Eventually waking up at 6.30am we were then hit with the realization the we had in fact missed it and we very disappointed by this, but eventually got over it when the lovely sound of "Sabaidee" at our d...