We arrive in Hue at about 11 am and all cram into one taxi, it's a roasting hot day here! We settle into our damp room and head straight into town for something to eat. We have dinner a Ushi's who gives us a enthusiastic greeting 'Ushi say hi!'. She apparently has a website and that is here catch phrase?! We're not that in pressed with the food but the beer Huda is refreshing! We're all a bit tired so decide to go to another hotel for the afternoon, it's good to ...

3rd March - Hanoi We arrive back in Hanoi at like 5am and decide to go for a walk around the lake to see the local people doing Tai Chi, it's pitch black and cold and nowhere is open, yet there are loads of people, young and old out doing exercise around the lake, it's mad! Some of them are taking part in exercise classes, some are just running or power walking, no wonder there are hardly any fat people here. We wait for a while at the hotel then head out for s...

Well it's been a long time we since we've updated the blog but it's not been as easy here coz the net is not so good but seeing as it's almost time to leave we thought we'd try before we move onto the next destination! You'll have to wait again for the photos coz we still can't put them on here sorry! x So we arrive in Lao Cai (27th February) at 5am "fresh" from the overnight train and then take the scariest bus ride up the mountain to Sapa, the fog is...

My 23rd Birthday in Vietnam! On the morning of my birthday we wake up on Cat Ba Island to go sea kayaking. Unfortunately I am in agony because I have pulled a muscle in my back but dosed up with ibu and paracetamol I decide to go anyway. We take a bus to a little inlet where there is a floating village and we go to one of the houses/restaurants on the floating village with our local guide to get our lifejackets, paddles and kayaks. We then take off with the gui...

So I will finish off where Mattie began on 25/02/09... We arrive at the national park and get a local guide who points to this massive peak and says we will be going up there but not to worry because it will only take an hour to get up there. We begin walking through the small settlement of houses there and there are loads of dogs, there seems to be a lot of dogs everywhere, they obviously like them and no we have already asked they're not for eating!! We get t...