Hello everyone, So on the Thursday before last (the 4th) me and Ryan set out on our tour of Ha Long Bay. We splashed out a bit on this one because I'd read not to go for one of the cheapo options, also because I didn't want the boat to sink! The tour lady at our hotel was really helpful and it turned out we ended up on a really good tour! It took about 3 and a half hours to arrive at the harbour where you board the boat. It was pretty busy there, it was full of ...

Hello everyone, So on the Tuesday before last we arrived in Hanoi from Vientiane. We flew with Lao airlines which to be honest I thought was going to be a bit dodgy, especially since the plane had propellors but it turned out to be pretty good. While we were in the air we could see that the rivers were really high and a lot of farmland had been flooded because of the typhoon. When we arrived we went through immigration and got a taxi into the city, well I say ta...