Dong Hoi Homestay We arrived in Dong Hoi on the 13th feb, a couple of days ahead of the cave expedition Chris wanted to do in a nearby town. Seeing as it was going to be Valentine's Day we opted for this homestay on the beach. We organised it online and turnt out to be one of the best decisions we had made so far. We arrived to this wonderful house at around 7am and although it was a lot earlier then the 2pm check in time the ladies there were all rushing to ...

Cat Ba island. We got the local bus from the main bus station in Hanoi, it took us to Hai Phong, another main city. We pulled up to this industrial estate with thousands upon thousands of shipping containers. Being only 2 hours from the capital of Vietnam I assume this must be the main shipping dock. But unfortunately with all the ships comes the pollution, it was far from a port or beach im used to seeing, it's muddy shores and disgusting waters were 10 times ...

The 28 hour journey to Hanoi After wondering the streets of Vientiene in Laos for several hours trying to find the 'nicest' bus to do the monster journey on, and after insisting on looking at photos of every bus on this route we finally came to the conclusion that contrary to what we were lead to believe every travel agent/hotel and booking agency offered the exact same bus for this journey. Now this particular route and border crossing had been nicknamed 'the ...