It felt strange being back in HCMC, we got taxi back to where we stayed last time and once again the cheap rooms were all full and we were only offered expensive rooms - it didnt take us long to find a cheaper room. We had dinner and then headed to the trusty GO2 bar. We were sitting chatting when it all of a sudden sounded like there had been a crash, as we popped heads outside bar you could see two local girls fighting a few bars down. People started to gathe...

So the train arrived at 5.15 am this morning - the sun was just rising and the city was beginning to come to life. We decided to walk to the hotel we stayed at last time as it was really cheap which took 30minsto get there, and on arriving they told us they were full - on hindsight we should have booked it when we stayed last time but we didnt think of that, so we ended up in a hotel across the road. We slept until 11am then wandered around the city again. We w...

So we made it to the train station preparing oursselves for the night train ahead. when we booked the train we wanted the soft sleeper but they didnt have any left on the way so we had to get the hard sleeper, so as you can imagine we were very concerned about what we were going to be sleeping on! never the less the bed was suprisingly comfy - there were 6 of us in the cabin with 4 vietmanese people andus two. They didnt really speak english but we smiled and no...

So we were tyrekking through Hanoi with guide book in hand heading to find a hostel - the one we wanted was fullso we plodded on to another- room wasnt amazing but we stopped anyway, dumped our bags and headed to a cafe to grab a drink. As we were sitting there it started to rain, then it got heaveir and ended up being a full blown thunder storm, the street outside quickly turned from a road into a river, and we thought it was bad in Hue. This time the river ca...

So we arrived in Halong Bay (Thurs 9th) at 12.30 and climbed aboard our boat. There was 13 of us in total, 2 couples from Oz, and group of 3 girls from Israel, a German and Sweedish girl, us and two Americans. \and then of course there was our tour guide...he was called Son but for some reason he thought that was hard for us to prounounce so he told us to call him Mountain - that's what his name means in Vietmanese, so Mountain it was. On boarding the boat we h...