Left the caves today on a bus to Hue. Some of the sights along the road were priceless...there were pot holes as big as cars, piles of logs sticking out into the road, buffalo, thousands of scooters, one even piled high with mattresses and chickens roaming the streets. Currently travelling all the way to Hoi An with some new friends I made at Phong Nha - Merve, Vince and Nick. Went to the DMZ line which is where North Vietnam meets south. Visited the Vinh Moc t...

Had my first experience on an overnight bus from Hanoi to Dong Hoi a few days ago - learnt that I'm too big for Asia! It was a pretty uncomfortable 12hour ride as my legs didn't fit in the footwell so had to hag them over the edge in some poor Vietnamese person's face! The bus reminded me of the bus in Harry potter - swerving oncoming scooters, trucks and buses. I just shut my eyes and hoped for the best! We were dropped in the middle of nowhere at about 5.30am a...

I'm writing this blog from my bed on a boat moored in the middle of Halong Bay. It's one of the 7 natural wonders and it's gorgeous, the scenery is so amazing and it's so peaceful (well apart from on our boat - the party is still in full swing). Went out kayaking from the boat earlier around one of the islands - saw some monkeys with black bodies and white heads climbing above us. Tomorrow we're going to another of the islands to camp out there overnight before h...

Day 3...the sun is shining and I've finally decided what to do! I leave Bangkok on Thurs, flying to Hanoi with two Australian girls. But for now I'm trying to enjoy Bangkok as much as possible whilst parts of the city are shut down. Yesterday nothing was open so we just went to a shopping mall out of town to keep us out if mischief! I experienced my first ride on a tuktuk which was eventful when the driver wanted to take us to one of the 'gem centres' which is on...

Wow what a day..(or days since I haven't properly slept since Friday night!) After a bit of a delay at Dubai because they had loaded the wrong bags onto the plane(!) I finally arrived in Bangkok to lots of talk of protests. I stood in the taxi queue and a German guy and girl behind me asked if I wanted to share a taxi into the city. Win - cheap taxi I thought. When I showed the lady the address of my hostel she pulled out a piece of paper which said due to the pr...