Having whizzed our way down Vietnam we are now in Nha Trang and heading to Saigon on a night bus this evening. We had a great New Year on the boat, and luckily met a really great bunch of people to party with. The Halong Bay trip in itself, however, wasn't great - there were constant arguments between our tour guide and the guests because of the horrendous organisation. Luckily we hadn't paid anywhere near what others on the trip had, and none of the problems rea...

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had a great one. We celebrated in Vang Vieng in Laos - tubing down the Nam Song river! Great fun - its a pub crawl on a river basically, and each bar has swings and flight boxes into the river. When finished at one bar you sit in your tube and float down the river until you're pulled in by the next one! It was strange to see people floating down with FC hats on! We met some guys from Finland who were very wasted and spent the night ...