The flights eventually got booked yesterday so it was now how long did we want to stop places and did we want to visit anywhere else. The morning was spent with our head in the books again and then in the afternoon we went out to explore the place. We walked towards the market that they have here. The market was huge and the vegetables looked amazing, no wonder everything is so fresh tasting here. We thought about going to a place that sold cheap beer by the glas...

We woke up refreshed after sleeping so much of the afternoon and night. We got up to have breakfast which was served in the room right next door to ours which is handy. We had decided that we would make today a planning day. We have the rest of Vietnam to book and sort and then we have the next section of Thailand to organise. We made a start after breakfast but the wifi was playing up so booking a couple of flights that we needed was a very slow process. We've d...

In the early hours of the morning a baby started to cry, you just couldn't make it up what was happening! The lights went on at around 4am and we just all sat like zombies listening to the baby. At 5am the train pulled into the station and we got off, not before taking photographs to remind ourselves of this , taking one of Sam and have Sam take one of us. We said bye to Sam and made our way out of the station to get a taxi. There were loads of them, we got one t...

This morning we got up and went straight to breakfast as we would be going off on our trek at 9.00am and we didn't know how long it would take to get served. It was a buffet breakfast so pretty easy, after this we went back to our room to pack. 9.00am we were downstairs ready to check out, store our luggage and go for our trek. We waited for a little while as we actually had a group today. There were nine of us altogether, an American lady, a French couple, a Tha...

We woke up this morning with about an hour to go until we got to Lao Cai station. We got off the train and found James' name being held up so we waited with the other people from this group. When everyone was together the guide took us over to a restaurant for breakfast. There were lots of Vietnamese people, the two Japanese guys from our cabin in the train and us. We were spread out in the restaurant because they had other customers too. We sat and waited, James...