Today we woke up feeling only slightly hungover as although we had tons of cocktails last night, they were pretty watered down. Gem and I managed to make it to the last 20 minutes of breakfast which was as bad as it was yesterday . Porridge ham soup, seriously? After checking out we headed straight to the tailor Nuni and got ourselves measured up for our suits. I chose a two tone dress in navy blue and mink and then was persuaded into getting a suit made out o...

At around 5-6 in the morning, we awoke on the Harry Potter night bus to find ourselves in Sapa safely. We had had a relatively good nights sleep despite being on a rocky bus and were ready for the day. We got off the bus to find a swarm of black cladded women around us, who we discovered were ethnic minority Vietnamese, who proceeded to follow us until we said we had no money and we weren't interested. We managed to get into a cafe around 7 and had breakfast, r...

We woke up for the last time in the Guesthouse slightly hungover from the night before and went for an all day breakfast. At 1pm, our bus picked us up to take us to Vientiane for our 8pm flight to Hanoi. As I got on the bus, I spotted Adam from the night before which was slightly awkward after my refusal! I slept most of the way on the bus next to Sam who started panicking that we were getting to Vientiane late and that we might miss our 8pm flight. Little did ...

We woke up to get ready for tubing to find it was monsoon weather yet again but thought it wouldn't matter as we were getting wet anyway. We located some dry bags from the shop opposite to protect our money and spare clothes in and then made our merry way to the tubing station with Henry, Sam and the 2 Essex lads. When we had just paid for our tubes, a couple appeared and said that they had been yesterday and it was crap. We thought, oh cheers guys, way to spoi...

We slept relatively well in our precarious bunks and got up early to get to the waterfall. We are so so glad we made the effort to go as it was stunning and aquamarine blue. We decided to make a sweaty 30 minute climb to the top, which would have scary had it been raining and it was super muddy. We got to the top and found what looked like really small shallow pools filled with marsh like plants and mangrove trees that we could imagine filled with snakes, but on ...