Worth a quick mention is the street we went to to buy our ticket for Halong Bay. The company we used was called Sinh Tourist. So we took a walk to the street where we thought their office was. Before we even got there we walked past three different places also called Sinh Tourist. Hmmm. We got to the street we needed to be on to find that EVERY place was called Sinh Tourist! There must have been about twelve different places all next door to one another. We'd...

So Hanoi was our last stop in Vietnam. We'd been on a bus for a while and unfortunately for Hannah the taxi ride to our hotel was quite a bit longer than expected too. To cut a long story short an emergency toilet stop was necessary! This was made extremely difficult by the fact that we had no idea where the nearest toilet was and our taxi driver didn't speak any English so had no clue as to why we'd made him stop! Not good at all when you're abou...

Our journey to Ninh Binh...what a balls up!  Our bus in Dong Hoi was due to pick us up at 8pm and it didn't arrive until 10:30pm. Tom and I were the only people waiting and when it did finally arrive the driver faffed around for five minutes before actually opening the bus door and coming out, just leaving us standing there. Then he gruffly told us to get on the bus in Vietnamese. We kept pointing to the luggage compartment under the bus where we usually pu...

The reason for going here to Dong Hoi was not the town itself but the Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park around an hour away. In it is a collection of different caves which we had heard were beautiful. As it was the wet season we knew we'd only be able to see two, Paradise Cave and Phong Nha. Although if you'd gone when it was drier you could go on an expedition to the worlds largest cave!  When we'd left Hue it had actually stopped raining so we thoug...