We woke up with (surprise surprise) another hangover but were ready for a busy day sightseeing in Hanoi. We left the hostel and headed towards the centre of Hanoi. We visited Hoan Siem Lake which was a massive lake in the middle of the city. I loved it! In the middle of the lake lay a house which the king was buried in. We carried on walking through the city until we came across the Hoi An Prison which we visited. It was an old prison that was used in the by Fr...

When we arrived in Hanoi we checked in to the hostel and got a lush private 3 bed room! We thought we would splash out and treat ourselves after spending the last two nights sleeping on a bus. As soon as we got there, we got showered and headed down to the buzzing backpackers bar downstairs. We met up with the Essex boys we had met before in luang prabang and went out with everyone from our hostel. The reps from our hostel took us out and took us to the local ...

When we arrived, we headed to the centre and found a hostel to stay at. We were all exhausted as we had hardly slept. We then found out that the night bus to Hanoi in Vietnam only runs on Wednesdays and Fridays so we decided to not stay there and get the night bus that evening. We didn't want to spend anymore time in Laos and wanted to go straight to Vietnam. With ANOTHER 24 hour bus journey ahead of us, we spent the afternoon by a swimming pool in Vientiane. It...

20th November - We had a relaxing last day in luang prabang where I nursed my very prominent hangover. We headed over to Utopia where we relaxed and looked over the Mekong river. If only I could do that on every hungover Sunday! I ordered a lovely fruit smoothie which went down a treat!!! Later on, we got on the night bus which would take us to Vientiane. It was another very unpleasant journey.

19th November - We got up, grabbed a baguette for brunch and headed to Kuang Si waterfall on a Tuk Tuk. It took us about 30-45 minutes to get there. Once we got there, we started walking through what looked like a jungle and we came across a bear sanctuary. There were really cute massive black bears lying basking in the sun. They were loving life. We carried on walking past waterfalls and walked to the highest point of the waterfall which was breathtaking. ...