This blog is really just to complete our Vietnam journey as we are currently in Kuala Lumpur for one night before heading across to Borneo tomorrow morning. Our last few days in Vietnam were spent in Halong Bay, on a boat cruising the amazing islands. We then spent one final day in hectic Hanoi-a chance to buy all the last minute souvieners that at first we thought were unnecessary, but on leaving the 'Nam we had decided they were essential buys!! Halong Bay w...

As I write we are killing time before we have to leave Sapa for the night train back to Hanoi. We have spent a great week in Sapa treking in the hills and living with locals, making the whole experience one of the highlights of this trip. Sapa is one of the most beautiful places in the world and absolutley worth spending a decent amount of time here. We arrived in Sapa last week following the train (The "Deluxe" night train cabin we booked was real...

The three H’s: Hoi an, Hue in the central regions of Vietnam and Hanoi that I write this blog from now. Our last blog finished in Hoi an, the tailoring Mecca of Vietnam, and I like to think we took advantage of that with getting our fair share of things made. You may ask what? But I can’t say as some of them may be presents but I can tell you we had a fun 3 days walking around town having some great food and going into as many tailors as possible. You ca...

Hello again! The blog today comes from Hoi An, a lovely old town on the East coast of Vietnam, not far from the old north/south divide. Its 9:00am in the morning and Dan is still asleep-recovery from some serious retail therapy yesterday...but more about that later. Following Saigon we took a bus up to the Central Highlands to a place called Dalat. Here we were up in the hills and the scenery was stunning. This is the area of Vietnam where the majority of fr...

Hello again! The blog today comes from Hoi An, a lovely old town on the East coast of Vietnam, not far from the old north/south divide. Its 9:00am in the morning and Dan is still asleep-recovery from some serious retail therapy yesterday...but more about that later. Following Saigon we took a bus up to the Central Highlands to a place called Dalat. Here we were up in the hills and the scenery was stunning. This is the area of Vietnam where the majority of fr...