We have been in Vietnam for a few days now, and have been pottering around in Hanoi and sailing around Halong Bay. We spent the first few days in Hanoi shopping around the amazing night market - bought lots of clothes and dvds which we are not sure if they work!, went to the water puppet show, went to the prison for Vietnam people during the war as well as American POWs (like John McCain). We also went to the art house cinema to see precious which was very depre...

My memories of Hanoi will always be asociated with the aawful journey to get there. We decided we would take the mỏe expensive over night sleeping bus in order to make the 24 hours more bearable. However whilst we diđi get our ơn bed, we ended up having to bbasically share it with 3 other people who were packed together so tightly on the bus in the aisle, so make matters worse i ha a vomiter right next to me, i never actually thought i would get used to the s...