After a light breakfast this morning we did a cooking class with the chef of the boat, making spring rolls. We all had the opportunity to roll them up then devour them once they were cooked. Then it was back on with the bright orange lifejackets and back onto the tender to visit one of the many floating fishing villages in Ha Long Bay. Our guide told us that on the 1 May this year all the villagers will have to move to the mainland and the villages disba...

Ha Long Bay...the most amazingly beautiful location I've ever seen...but the journey there is not without hardship...well first world hardship anyway. We left Ha Noi at 7:45am and after bumping along the main road, which seemed was under repair the whole four and a half hours, finally arrived at this modern wonder of the world. Unfortunately we didn't have a guide with us for the journey so it took some time to convince the driver to stop for a toilet break at...