Day Forty Returning for Hanoi from Ha Long Bay After the fun & games last night we were tired to say the least. We managed to pack our little bags & get ready fairly quickly. We had to rush downstairs to get breakfast as we had been told that we needed to be on the bus by 8am. Early start & sat eating breakfast at 7.45am. You will never guess what the breakfast consisted of today! Oh yeah it was eggs again! To be honest the breakfast in the hotel ...

Day Thirty-Nine Ha Long Bay to Cat Ba Island Can this tour get any worse please. It was ridiculous & I woke up more unhappy that when I went to sleep. The tour man now properly nicknamed Tom Bruise was banging on our cabin door & it was only 7am. Is he for real? We all shouted that we were getting ready & that we would be up on desk from our breakfast in five minutes but no, that wasn't good enough! After four minutes he came banging again so I shou...

Day Thirty-Eight Hanoi to Ha Long Bay Boat Trip Extremely early start to the day. We had been told that we will be collected from the hostel between 7am & 7.30am so we were up at 6.30am so we could get washed & changed & sort out what we were taking for the next couple of days. We had decided that because we needed to return to Hanoi then we would pack our small rucksacks for the next couple of days & leave our big heavy backpacks at the hostel ...