Our final full day in Vietnam before we move onto Hong Kong tomorrow. We decided to spend the day chilling in the hostel we were staying at which was really nice, Lily’s Hostel, next door to the tourist office we booked through -Lily’s travel. We spent the morning with Baz, who we had met during the Halong bay tour. I also spent a good part of the day scouting Hanoi for a North Face coat and some presents. Later in the afternoon, we walked to the Ho Chi Minh ...

We were picked up in a mini bus early morning time after a quick breakfast of fried eggs and baguettes. Unfortuately, the weather was a little overcast which was disappointing but not the end of the world. It was a 4 hour mini bus journey to the Halong Bay marina. In this time, we were introduced to the rest of our group, approximately 15 of us in total, and our host, Tommy. His english was more on the broken side but he was the happiest of chappies, which was th...

We survived the night bus! Surprisingly, I actually had a decent amount of sleep, Matt told me that I had fallen asleep before the bus had even left, I was very exhausted! I felt much better this morning, although still a little fragile. Apparently, we had arrived in Sapa at 4am, but the bus driver let us sleep on the bus until 6am which was good. We weren't meeting our walking tour guide, Mao, until 7am so we sat in a little coffee shop until then. It was actu...

We were woken at 5am with a bang! The bus driver obviously wanted us off asap which was a little disorienting but all part and parcel of the night bus experience! The drop off wasn't too far from our hostel so we decided to walk. The Ga Hostel seemed nice enough and well off the Main Street which was good. They let us have our beds early but at an early check in price of $2 each. We didn't care at that point, we just needed sleep! After 4 hours of decent sleep,...

So we struggled to make our minds up with what to do today! We would only be able to see two out of three caves in one day, but which three?! There was an adventure cave which sounded awesome but we were tired from travelling so much and it was a tad cold to be getting wet, so we decided to catch a bus to Phong Nha and hire mopeds to see the Paradise cave, which was suppose to be beautiful! We met an Italian guy called Manfredio and a Chinese guy called Lazer who...