Had a lovely breakfast asfter sleeping well and set out towards a big lake to the north of the city. Saw a few pagodas and statues and when we arrived at the lake it had a lovely misty hue to it. We decided to rent a swan and have a paddle round the big lake for an hour. Saw the pagoda in the photo above from the water and soaked up a few rays. When we pedalled back to the shore we decided to take a route that would show us a few little sights on the map, but...

Claire got up very early today to have breakfast and go to get har Mongolian Visa, im very tired today, think im still catching up from the night on the sleeper train (contradiction of terms!) Get up and had breakfast myself and walked to the Massauleum? to meet Claire. We queued to go through some security cheques and then we were herded around to the building, there were guards everywhere and we couldnt step off the designated areas. Walked into the building ...

Arrived in Hanoi around 6ish having had little sleep. We were greeted by our names on a board and bundled into a taxi by a guy from Buffalo tours, he followed on his moped! Arrived at the hotel and unfortunately couldnt check in until 12, got that down to around 10, so set out to trudge the streets for a few hours. Walked around the lake near our hotel (cant remember the name, there are lots of lakes) and saw the locals doing Tai Chi and stretching and playing ...

Up quite early and down for breakie, packed, watched Little Women (there is a channel on TV in most of the hotels called Star Movies and it shows non stop films all day in English - so we have got quite fond of it!) and checked out. Nothing much we wanted to do today, everything else to see seemed to be futher out on the city - a bus/taxi or boat ride away. We walked towards the bridge again and went into a supermarket on the other side, it always interesting t...

We have intÎnet, but keybo¶d changÐ ch¶actÐ so cant typÐ a blog today. On train from 4.00pm to 4.30am tomorrow so hopÌully ill be able to update in Hanoi. Sory evÎyone Back latÎ X Better internet now!! We had a very busy day in Hue seeing as we were only there for one full day. Woke up without a stiff neck!! Its a novelty for me, but the pillow was great! We walked to the river and over the bridge to a lake/pond that has a folklore attached. Appare...