Blog Day 65 Sun 10th July 2011 Halong Bay Day! To say that we slept at all last night is an understatement, the roads were crazy until around 3am & started again around 5am (or that may have been the few hours of sleep we managed to get). However today we rose with anticipation, for we are off to Halong Bay, one of the main Reasons we decided to come to Vietnam. After packing a few things into our small bags we head down to the hotel 'restaurant' for b...

Vietnam- Now we have to de-brief on our 2 week stay in Vietnam, it's pretty safe to say that we had some really shocking lows, but we did have some pretty amazing highs too. So we do have some good memories to take away from this part of our trip. One thing is for sure however though that we will never be going back there ever again and now we have been we don't need to. Though there were a few other places we could have stopped at we don't feel like we missed o...

Blog Day 60 - 63 Tues 5th - Fri 8th July 2011 Day 60 The next 4 days are all about getting ourselves back on the mend. Dan is now not feeling to great either & the after going to see the doctor we get told the same infection has kicked in for Dan, 4 days after Trish. The doctor explains that because he has more of a cast iron stomach, his body tried to fight it but now cannot do it alone, fortunately he doesn't need any injections to the hip but we do both...

Blog Day 59 Mon 4th July 2011 We wake up early around 7ish; Willo (tour guide) said that breakfast would be around 8ish so we go over the commands we learned yesterday so that they are fresh in our heads. Breakfast is toast with barbecue fried eggs for Dan & the rest of the cereal bar for Trish. We watch an Elephant paint a picture using its trunk & we get told we can keep the finished article, it's apparently a way of training them in the early sta...

Blog Day 58 Sun 3rd July 2011 Today we are off to Ran-Tong Elephant Camp!! The camp itself is about an hour outside of Chiang Mai, the beginning of the journey is fine, but when we get closer to the camp the roads become very muddy and uneven & we find ourselves holding on for dear life. After what seems like a life time of bumps and slipping and sliding we get to 'literally' the end of the road, we are quite a way into the jungle and we are told that we...