Sorry haven't written for a while. Not much to write about when all your doing is sunbathing on the beach. Ha not trying to make you jealous! :) After 6 weeks of cloud we were all pretty much looking forward to getting a tan and lazing around a bit. When we got to Hoi An we managed to get a hotel with a pool for 2 pounds a night which was awesome. We cycled to the beach one day but mainly hung round the pool. Everything was super cheap in Hoi An. We got bycycles ...

So after Kat's birthday we decided to head south as there was a typhoon in the Phillippines that was heading towards the north of Vietnam. Don't think it would have been that dangerous for us inland but we were eager to avoid anymore bad weather. We timed it perfectly as we were one day ahead of the storm and went on the first day that we were able to travel south through the floods. If you haven't seen the news practically the whole of central Vietnam is flood...

So we got the train to Hanoi from China without too much trouble, although it did seem a bit touch and go at the time. Firstly our tickets had the wrong train number and time on it. Secondly, we asked a million people and couldn't find out what time the train crossed the border because our visas weren't valid until after midnight. In the end we turned up at the border at 11.30pm and they were nice enough to stamp it anyway. LUCKILY! Then when we arrived in Hanoi ...

We've left Yangshou now and are waiting in Nanning to take the overnight train to Hanoi. Pretty sad to leave Yangshou, but well looking forward to Vietnam now. Caving turned out to be HILARIOUS. We'd been given brochures on it and all the pictures advertise people in swimming stuff in mud baths and hot springs, so it looked pretty cool. On arrival we excitedly stripped down to our swimming stuff and got in the boat. The guide said nothing to us apart from when ...

After travelling for 22 hours by train and being stared at closely the entire way by a nosey Chinese woman (there's no such thing as rude to stare in China) we arrived in Hong Kong. Our hostel was .. er interesting. The room was somewhere between a prison and a hospital. Clean but cell-like. The building was weird it was called King Chung Mansions or something and for some reason had crammed in all ethnic origins except for native HongKongens. Weird seeing Indian...