We decided that we would go out for a few drinks with our new found friends Scott and Brandie. As always a few turned into a lot and we were supposed to be having an early night and going on a day trip to Ninh Binh (a little mountain village) at 8am the next morning. But an early one turned into half 4 and we were both a little worse for wear, I was feeling very sorry for myself the next day I think I must have picked something up off a dirty glass or bottle beca...

We got into Hanoi airport after some more major travel back from Chiang Mai to Bangkok then Bangkok to Hanoi and once again we were met with long passport control queues and confusion over our visas. I'm seeing a trend starting! I had organized an airport pickup with the hotel and thank god I did!! When we walked out of the airport we were met by a mass of traffic and they were all honking their horns! The drive or should I say death race! To the hostel was a...