After two days of trekking, we spent one night and nearly 2 days in Halong Bay. This was one of the places Ed and I were the most excited about going, and it was pretty awesome! We had our own private boat, with cute little cabins and spent the first day doing a bit of kayaking and some swimming. Ed jumped off the top of the boat, everyone was impressed! Had some delicious food onboard, mostly seafood, yum! The next day we sailed around for a bit and went to som...

So, arrived Hanoi and managed to negotiate a taxi to our hotel, which by the way is sweet! Nicest place we've stayed in so far (apart from Abu Dhabi). After we had checked in we joined our group for the 6 week tour. We obviously turned up late (bus driver's fault, not ours) and missed the big welcome speech, but joined the group for dinner later on. Everyone seemed really nice. The next day, our tour leader, Pong, (seriously) showed us around Hanoi, we saw dea...

So, arrived Hanoi and managed to negotiate a taxi to our hotel, which by the way is sweet! Nicest place we've stayed in so far (apart from Abu Dhabi). After we had checked in we joined our group for the 6 week tour. We obviously turned up late (bus driver's fault, not ours) and missed the big welcome speech, but joined the group for dinner later on. Everyone seemed really nice. The next day, our tour leader, Pong, (seriously) showed us around Hanoi, we saw dea...

We arrived in Vang Vieng quite late after another long bus journey. At the bus station we met captain boring and his equally dull girlfriend. We decided to walk into town from the station which took ages with our bags in the heat. I was still wearing a jumper and was too lazy to take it off so after five minutes of walking it looked like I'd been swimming. We eventually found a nice guesthouse by the river and after a tepid shower we had a little wander around wh...