On the 21st we spent the day getting our visa's and flights sorted for China. We caught a ferry from Hong Kong to Shenzen in China and then a flight from Shenzhen to Guillin. Our hotel then came to take us the hotel in Yangshuo so we eventually arrived here at 11pm. Our hotel is lovely it is overlooking hte Li River and we have a huge room all for the price of 20 pounds!!!!rnrnFrom the 22nd - 23rd we did nothing. Sleep, eat, watch DVD's on iPods and read. Its...

On the 19th we got our flight from Saigon to Hong Kong.  The flight was good and on time which is alway a bonus.  Neen wasn't feeling too well he seem to have caught another cold so we headed straight for the hotel and did not a lot.  We were staying in the YMCA - wow what a posh YMCA and expensive 76 pounds.  But it was worth it. On the 20th Neen was still not feeling very well so we had a chill out morning and headed out on the streets of Hong Kong...

On the 17th we got up early again and headed off on our a nice bus trip from Chau Doc to Saigon. The trip took 6 -7 hours but we had a lovely stop along the way at a great restaurant where the food was fab.  We arrived in Saigon and Neen, Jacqui, Helen and Pat went on a little walking tour to have a look around.  We saw the Reunification Palance, the Market, Notre Dame and the Post Office.  The city was very pretty   That night we headed out to ...

On the 16th we headed off on a speedboat down the Mekong river.  It was another interesting journey.  Before we did so we sang happy birthday to Padhraig who turned 30 on our tour.  We headed about 2 hours down river and then got off the boat to go through the border on the Cambodian side - this took all of 3 minutes each   The we headed two minutes down on the boat and waited 45 minutes at the Vietnam border - were we got people selling us beer, drin...

On the 14th we took a flight from Siem Reap to Phenom Penn - some of the group feeling a little worse for wear  The flight was good and we arrived in the city in afternoon and headed off to our hotel.  Neen went out wandering and Jacqui stayed in watching pants TV.  Not much was open as we were there during the Cambodian New Year.  We had a very nice dinner that night and we went for a drink and watched some football. On the 15th we headed off to the...