Day 7 - The day of the big storm......With our fears of typhoon Haiyan lessening by the hour as it seemed to have tracked north and would hit Vietnam sometime today, we awoke to a cloudless sky. Wandered down for a random breakfast of rice, noodles, sausages and fried egg on toast. The plan for the day was to hire some bikes and bike over to the large Buddha on the other side of the Mekong river. First job though was to sort out our bus for tomorrow morning to ...

Day 6 - After another restless night for both of us tackling the mosquito net we quickly got up to try to get to the bus station. A little wander around and then a supposed taxi and a tuk tuk turned up at the same time. The tuk tuk was charging too much for what we thought was a 5 minute journey And the taxi didn't really look legit. A good call from Alice to return to the hotel to order a taxi. One duly arrived and in we hopped for the short journey to the bus s...