hello all! so its been a while since my last entry - getting a bit rubbish at updating it! anyway im in a little town called dalat at the moment. after returning from sapa to hanoi we headed down the coast stopping at hue, hoi an and nha trang. tomorrow we are heading for saigon. as soon as we left hanoi and headed down the coast the weather turned bad - proper monsoon type rain and flooding. i think i seriously underestimated rainy season! haha. the journey to...

im back in hanoi for the day, have had an amazing week in vietnam so this might be a long entry! sorry! so on saturday morning we headed for halong bay which was about a 3 hour drive to the east of hanoi. we had been really lucky with the weather with every day in vietnam being hot and sunny but on the way to halong bay it started pouring of rain and got stormy. i had never seen a lightning bolt so close as when one struck a field right next to the road we were ...

i have made it one piece to vietnam! my china tour ended in guangzhou last friday, it was really sad to say goodbye to the tour group :( they were the loveliest people. we had a nice farewell dinner at a restaurant with pigs intestines, feet and other yummy delights on the menu and parted ways. rachel came and met me on friday also :) guangzhou wasnt a very nice city, very busy and dirty and not much going on in it so we wanted to get to vietnam as soon as possi...