The penultimate day A 6am start to leave Hanoi. We are both in agreement that if we see another early start again it'll be too soon!A mad taxi journey to the airport - My trick now to deal with Vietnam traffic is to go to sleep! Amanda however is still having palpatations. A stress free airport visit and off to Kuala Lumpur. It was boiling getting off the plane - Hello Sun. :-) We found somewhere to stay: Hotel Chinatown 2 and spent the day sightseeing. We visi...

Day - who knows: the end is sadly near! Our last night in Hanoi was really good. Ryan was recommended a place for food so we headed there for the evening. Well ..... It wouldnt have passed food hygienge grade 0! The dishes and glasses were being washed in the street and the place definately hadn't seen a bottle of bleach - ever. We decided to go for it means it was our last night and figured if we were ill on the plane we might be upgraded to cargo! (Air asia r...

Day 10 Another early start (we cant believe it either!) Breakfast to go and picked up by minibus to get to Halong Bay. The traffic was insane most of the way but the journey went quite quickly. 2 hours in and we stopped at an ornament garden centre and hope our parents like the 7ft elephant water fountains we have had shipped home - payment on arrival! Hahaha. 2 hours later and we arrive at Halong Bay. Wow. Even from the port the views were amazing. We got ...

Day 9 We left Bangkok at silly o clock and were heading for Vietnam, Ryan slept from take off to landing..still recovering from a Koh San Road hangover?! Many thousand more AirAsia miles later anmd a stress free airport led us into a false sense of security. Hanoi is MENTAL. Much cooler than the other places we've been which is welcome but the sun tan plan has gone out the window! A pretty scary taxi journey into the city and we found somewhere to stay. Mikes Pl...

Day 6,7,8 So ....Bangkok! We arrived in the City at 8pm after a taxi jouney from a driver we think has never driven in Bangkok before! A bit of walking the streets and we found a place to stay. New Siam 2. A quick change and off to sample some local bars. Unbelievable heat and a 'few beers' went down nicely. The next morning Amandas watched stopped so a bit later than planned we went to see a few sights. Well, that was the plan .... However the heat made the...