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...