So after following these guys to the bus, we were shoved on, oh after being told to get our shoes off before climbing on and given a smelly bag to put them in. I suppose it kept the floor clean. We climbed on and 2 guys took our rucksacks from us. They started shoving them under the front seats and we were told to go towards the back. I wanted to keep my rucksack near me and asked but they didn't get what I meant and kept pointing for us to move down. Graeme assu...

Well we made it in time and they didn't muck about they were straight off towards Vientaine (Laos)…… or were we!!! We suddenly realised that we hadn't checked with the driver or any of the people pointing us in the correct direction that this bus was going to Vientaine (Laos), for all we knew we could be on our way to China……. But then again China did sound pretty cool so in the end we just went with it.Rachel had 2 major worry's, first "that there was no...

We left at around 8:30 Monday morning after grabbing breakfast in the hotel (an omelette again), and got on the coach for the 3 hour drive back to Hanoi. We then were escorted by Pooky our tour leader for a walk to the old quarters where we booked tickets for a water puppet show the next day. We were then left to explore. We first had lunch and then went for a wander, and looked at the lake, the palace in the middle of the lake, the opera house and the cathedral....