Firstly we arrived to Ho Chi Minh city after travelling by bus with some people we had met, first thing I noticed about Vietnam was the swam of motorbikes that took over the roads, they didn't have tuk tuks here but everything was so packed together this didn't matter! After we found a guesthouse we headed out for dinner and made the plan to go to the Cu chi tunnels the next day, we saw how small the original ones were (only 17cm), we crawled through ones which w...

We booked a castaways trip to leave from Hanoi backpackers to Halong Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning. The bus journey took 4 hours to get to the ferry and when you the ferry you were served some typical Vietnamese food. After lunch you spend the afternoon talking to the rest of the group, kayaking around halong bay and it's beautiful islands before arriving at castaways private island and being greeted by the other group who were currently on the island....