My second day in Hanoi i spent in the city. In the morning we visited Ho Chi Minh in his glass coffin which was very sureal and over with very quickly; there are rumours that it may be a wax work and the man himself is being preserved somewhere else. We then took a walk back into the centre passing a huge statue of Lenin in a lovely park. We took a walk around the lake in the centre and sat down finding some shade to write some postcards. As we walked back in...

We left the civilized Luang Prabang and headed to Vang Vieng.We arrived into absolute party town, not sure if it was because of the New Year or if it's always like that but there was music blasting, beer and Lao Lao flowing and lots of wet people dancing and spraying water.We did well to get to a guest house dump our stuff and join the party without all our belonging getting soaked. I crossed the street from our guest house to the liveliest bar in town and got...