Date: 4th July 2011 Place: Hanoi Weather: Not sure actually because I was in an airport all day The train stopped at 4am and we then had to barter for a taxi to the airport. We decided to go then because Sam was getting a flight too so it would save money for all of us to go together. We managed to get one at the price we wanted in the end but we got swapped from one taxi to another just down the road for some reason. When we were stopping a Scottish gu...

Date: 3rd July 2011 Place: Sapa Weather: Sunny Since we were going walking again today I had to go out and buy myself some walking shoes. I was in the right place though thankfully because they do loads of cheap fake The Northface stuff. I managed to get some decent ones before our walk down to a village called Cat Cat. It was a steep walk down but the village was quite sweet. There were water contraption things all the way down the paths that would fil...

Date: 2nd July 2011 Place: Sapa Weather: cloudy again with a bit of rain Zi made us a great breakfast of banana pancakes today. We then had the choice of whether or not we wanted to go the really muddy way or the road way. Since I hadn't been able to handle the mud from the day before without falling everywhere I decided to take the road way. It was an easy walk and we finished at the stop we were having lunch. The worst part of the walk was a rickety b...

Date: 1st July 2011 Place: Sapa Weather: Slightly cloudy Arrived at 5am and were picked up from the train station with a sign saying Camel Evans instead of Carmen. We then had a wait in the carpark for another train to come in so we had a mess around with people trying to sell us bread by offering them 1000dong for ages and they just kept trying to sell it to us (they wanted 10,000dong). When we set off and were going up the hills it was stunning. All t...

Date: 30th June 2011 Place: Hanoi Weather: sunny First thing we did today was book a trip to Sapa. We thought it was going to be hard work but it wasn't too bad. They would pick us up that evening from down the road from our hostel. To fill up the day we went to the lounge area of the hostel and watched a bit of Slumdog Millionaire with Pete and James. We then thought we should see some of Hanoi so went for a walk down to the lake which apparently had a...