Hello everyone! nice to see all your messages. We survived the 12 hour bus journey and are now in Nha Trang, VIetnam. The night bus picked us up at 6 in the evening, and we were dreading having to spend 12 hours on there. When it arrived it actually looked ok, the night buses consists of reclining chairs on the floor, and some above them like bunkbeds... bit hard to describe. Although it stank we were ok untill......the cockroaches appeared!! They were everywhere...

Hello everyone! So since our last blog, we took an hours flight down to Denang, Central Vietnam. We met a Canadian lad on the flight and so shared a taxi into central Hoian. Hoi An is SOOO much prettier than Hanoi, its warmer too, but rainy so still havent been able to pack away the rain coat~!~ The streets here are very pretty and they have A LITTLE less mopeds. The streets are FULL of tailors waiting to make you anything and everything you want, although i had ...

Evening!! We have just arrived back from 2 days and 1 night stay in Halong Bay, Which was amazing!! The coach picked us up from our hotel in Hanoi and it was a 4 hour journey to the Bay, where we emabarked upon a lovely boat/ship with about 12 other people. We were really suprised how nice the ship was and our room was lovely! We had 5 meals all together, all weird and wonderful things which i eventually tried and actually quite liked!! We are getting very much ...

Hi all !, So since we last spoke, we have left Bangkok and are now in Hanoi, Vietnam. We had a reallly good last night in Bangkok, we found a lovely outdoor market that at night turned into a music venue with live bands ( who sang english songs!) and food and drinks, (it was very cheap and worked out about 1.80 a meal). We left Bangkok early morning and caught a flight to Hanoi. You can sum up Hanoi in 2 words, fascinating and CRAZY. Its so hetic!! there are thou...

Hello Everyone! So we have officially began our trip, after a long ( but nice) flight and a VERY long wait at passport checks in Bangkok airport ( it was absolute chaos and sweaty!!) we have arrived at our hotel in sukhumuit, Bnagkok. Just getting used to our surroundings and living out of a bag, but due to lack of sleep we are going to browse around here for the rest of the night and head to the shops tomorrow before we head 0to hanoi, Vietnam on Friday ( we ar...