Day 10 We have been waiting ages to do what we have done today... We had a tour to Halong Bay, 2 nights, 3 days. Tonight we are sleeping on a boat in Halong Bay, the boat is really nice and the room is lovely. We started the trip with a 3 hour bus journey from our Hotel in Hanoi to Halong City where we met the rest of our group and got onto the boat. Our first stop was to see some of the caves around Halong Bay. Halong has 1960 different islands and around 17...

Day 9 Another early start, getting up at 3 wasnt too bad think we were just excited to get to Vietnam. Flight into Hanoi was fine, went very quickly as we both nodded off as soon as we sat down. Flight only took just over an hour and a half, its our shortest journey yet! :) Hanoi is soooo busy! We thought Bangkok was bad! There are mopeds EVERYWHERE and it is almost impossible to cross the road.. due to the amount of traffic. Another strange thing is that ev...

Day 5 Wow, what a journey! 15 hours is a hell of a long time, but we saw some amazing sights along the way. We arrived Chiang Mai at about 5.45 and took a transfer to our hotel. The sleeper beds were great but we didnt manage to get much sleep as the train was quite noisy and it got quite cold in the middle of the night. Lauren spent the night with a cockroach. We arrived at the hotel around 6 and luckily we were allowed to check into our room straight away, r...

Hi everyone. Sorry its taken so long to update our blog. We've not had many opportunities to get on the net. (Photos to follow shortly) So here we are Day 1 : Bangkok BA009 landed at Suvarnabhumi Intl airport after an 11 hour flight from London (around 3.30 pm). Following our 1st flight was a 2 hour transfer to our first hotel (Viengtai Hotel), this would usually take around 45 mins but as we arrived during rush hour it took over twice as long! After arriving...