Arriving in VangVieng from Lunang Prabang did not come soon enough! The bus journey was so bad, wizzing up and down and around the mountainous roads almost sent us over the edge...literally! The main reason people come here is do do the tubing...so we had to! Thsi involves irresponsible travellers floating down the river on a rubber tube stopping off at make-shift bars consuming various alcoholic drinks along the way...and having a go on the zip wires and monkey...

Laos is such a laid-back country, even more so than you can imagine! Even more sleepy than Jen (if that's possible!). Although landing here from Hanoi was a pretty scary experience; we were on such a small plane and as it was time to land it just nose-dived onto the landing strip after circuling erractically a few times! Bad. As Vic and Jen were waiting on Sal to back to join them, we spent the day (well an hour or so) riding around the town on bikes which was f...

Vic and Jen went on a 2 day trip to Halong Bay. It is one of the most beautiful places to visit, the scenery was just amazing we really weren't expecting it to be that good! We arranged the trip through the hostel in Hanoi so there were plenty of young folk on the trip. We went kayaking through caves and watched the sun set across the water, it was beautiful! We were really looking forward to having a swim in the Bay but after seeing the amount of HUGE jelly fi...

Getting to Hanoi was probably one of our worst experiences so far! After a 6 hr bus ride to Hue we had to get another connecting bus to Hanoi which was a further 12 hour overnight bus journey...dealing with that and a hangover was...interesting! We spent quite a few days in Hanoi. We checked into the Back Packers Hostel which was a pretty cool place to stay and meet loads of other back packers. Next day Sal headed back to England for Emma's wedding!!! While Sal...

We all really loved Hoi An! It is a quiet little town close to a beautiful beach with loads of little tailor shops dotted up and down the streets. Obviously we took full advantage of them and had shoes, dresses and shorts made for a really good price! We wanted more.... We stayed at a place called Ancient Lodgings and it certainly lived up to its name. It was situated in the middle of the bustling market and our room didn't have proper door or windows it was lik...