GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!! Although not such a good one.... Hanoi did not get off to the best start as it was freezing cold and pouring down with rain for pretty much the whole time, it was like being back in Manchester! We spent the best part of day 1 agonising over which tours we were going to book for Halong Bay and Sapa. It's just so hard to know whether you're getting scammed or not and how much you should be bargaining for things. Anyway after finally decidin...

On Sunday, we had another minibus ride which was ear popping and a wee bit travel sick inducing but with amazing scenery, though we also had to endure the awful music videos that our guy insisted on playing at full blast! For whatever reason, we hadn't expected the road north to ancient Luang Prabang to be so mountainous and windey, but it made sense once we saw the scenery en route and passed through the remotest of tiny villages which offered a more authentic i...

STRIPPER IN TRAINING, BEERLAO O'CLOCK, FREE SEX, I SOLD MY SOLE FOR A SHOT OF LAO LAO.... these are just a few of the slogans we have found plastered across ourselves over the last few days! And where else would this be than in Vang Vieng? After gently easing ourselves in on the first night we arrived, by sitting in a bar and watching back to back Friends episodes (it has been AGES) since we have done that, and purchasing the obligatory tubing vest, we wasted no...

Sabaidee from Laos!! We arrived in Vientiane and immediately got a good feeling about theplace as despite walking around tired and with our bags on, we got asense of the French influence and couldn't wait to head out to explore. We duly did soon enough and after sorting out our Vietnam visa tucked in to some French baguettes before deciding on a ...

OH MY BUDDHA!! The last few days in Chiang Mai have been awesome and will definitely take some beating. After finding somewhere to stay, we got some brekkie then crashed out for a couple of hours, standard after getting a night bus! The rest of the day we put to good use by booking onto a cooking course for the next day, a trip to an elephant park the day after, and a bus to take us all the way to Vientiane in Laos for the day after that (we skilfully managed to...