Day 49 & 50: 27 & 28/7/13 I got up to have the included Breakfast at 9 and met Denise there. We said our goodbyes after breakfast as she was going to try to see Ho Chi Minh in the Mausoleum again. I spent the next three hours then going through all my stuff, dumping an odd thing, trying to pack everything and repacking again to fit it better. I knew everything would fit but there's a few souvenirs like the bowls I bought yesterday that need a bit of prote...

Day 48: 26/7/13 I met the last remaining stragglers of the group this morning for breakfast- Dan, Mike, Amar and Denise. Geoff is still around but he's continuing on the next leg of the trip which is to Laos and leaves today. So after breakfast, Denise, Amar and I went up to his room to say goodbye. He had been fast asleep and didnt really know what was going on!! He's the only one of the whole 16 of us that is continuing on- last man standing! We were going to g...

Day 47: 25/7/13 Today was a relaxing day for a change!! We had a bit of a sleep in and then we tried to save and swap all our photos before Ann-Marie would go. We copied each others and then we copied Hannah's aswell as she has a class camera. I'll have a million photos now of this trip alone and I won't know what to do with them all! Steph, Hannah and Ann-Marie are all leaving today and happen to be on the same flight to Bangkok so they had to check out at 12. M...

Day 46: 24/7/13 Another early morning. I'd been requested to wake one of the lads at half six and I heard him rushing around the room trying to put on clothes before he answered the door. There had been reports of him wearing no clothes in his room so that was a lovely mental image, at least it wasn't the image I got when he answered- that would have been awkward!! We went back to the restaurant that we were at last night for breakfast. They had American and Eng...

Day 45: 23/7/13 I had a great sleep last night- about six hours I'd say!! We were up early this morning to check out and for once breakfast was 'includesh/ incluje' , so we were all there!! We left around 8am for a four hour bus journey to Halong bay. On the way our guide was telling us our itinerary and stuff. Then he taught us a little chorus of a song about Ho Chi Minh living forever. There'd be some fun teaching that at home! Then he was telling us about the ...