Singapore Day 3 (14.07.2012): What a fun day on Sentosa Island even in the rain! I think we are very lucky that this is the first day that we have ever really been affected by the rain (even though we have travelled in monsoon season). It rained all day! We left the sightseeing behind us and headed to Sentosa at 9am taking the MRT (underground) then a monorail to the park. Sentosa is a wonderful playground - Lots of lovely beaches and many things to do. We pu...

Singapore Day 2 (13.07.2012): Singapore is an amazing country and city. At only 42km at it's widest point it is too small to even have a capital. To make up for the lack of space there are a multitude of skyscrapers. Singapore is a former British colony and was once part of Malaysia. As our tour guide today stated: it is a city of immigrants making it very multicultural but at the same time the official language is english and it is very westernised. This morni...

Singapore Day 1 (12.07.2012): Not much to blog about today only to note that we (including my conical hat) have arrived safely in Singapore. Our morning started with a trip to the post office for us to send home another box of stuff. We are now banned from any more purchases. I got rid of some clothes too but my bag doesn't seem to be any lighter. We checked out of Hanoi Guesthouse at midday and headed for the airport. Bye bye Vietnam! Our flight with Jetstar w...

Hanoi (11.07.2012): Today we explored Hanoi to the max. We have walked miles in what seems to have been our hottest day in Vietnam yet. We set off early after breakfast to visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. The mausoleum houses Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body, which was a very strange experience. There are many guards surrounding the mausoleum and it was quite intimidating. Many Vietnamese people save for some time to make the pilgrimage to see 'Uncle Ho' - it is inte...

Halong Bay (08.07.2012 to 10.07.2012): Wow wee. We have just returned from the most magical cruise around Halong Bay. We are certainly in love with Vietnam again. Halong Bay is one of the world's natural wonders, located northeast of Vietnam. It is also a Unesco World Hertigage site, we have now seen all three Unesco sites in Vietnam. The bay is made up of 2000 islands made of mainly limestone and karst formations. We visited the less touristy Bai Tu Long Bay...