Hue, Central Vietnam. The temperature is not as high as we thought it was going to be but its picking up. Our bus ride was not as bad as we thought it was going to be. We met some people on the bus who we are now in a dorm with. Donna, Hannah, Chris and Emily. We got into Hue at 9:00 and went with a hostel rep straight to the Backpackers Hostel. We had breakfast for free and dumped our stuff in the room. We headed straight out to the Citadel in the centre of Hu...

Today we went to the Ho Chi Min Mosoleum complex. We saw the Mosoleum and the 1 pillar pagoda. We walked around the Ho Chi Min Museum, they have a very strange collection of stuff. It was quite interesting looking at the way everything is displayed. We walked past the Presidential Palace and then walked to the Red River. We had lunch in a cafe called Ureka Coffee. We sat on a table overlooking the river where about 40 people were peddaling around in swan shaped...

We went to the 'Water Puppetry Show' the night before last, it was realy interesting! We were sat near to the front and had a realy good view of the puppets in the water. The puppets are in the water and the controls are underneath them, with people behind a screen controling them waist deep in water also. We will put on some videos soon as its hard to explain what it was like. We started our 2 day Halong Bay cruise yesterday and finished today at 4pm. It was be...

Gooooooooooood morning Vietnam! We got here eventually. We had to postpone our bus trip by 1 day as northern Laos was hit by a tropical storm. Our guest house owners told us it would be unsafe to travel north, and it would be a 50/50 chance we would make it there safe. We didnt sleep much that night, we layed awake counting from lightning to thunder giggling like little children. We love a bit of noise and rumbles. We got to the bus station the next night to fi...

Hello! Sorry we havent blogged for a while weve been very busy doing nothing. Weve been back in Luang Prabang for the water splashing festival (to wash away the sins of the past year) which was lots of fun. The whole town joins in, in an massive mass water fight on the main street for 3 days. We bought some little water pistols to join in and were ambushed by little kids with water bazookas twice the size of them, loaded with ice cold water. The older kids take ...