Hanoi day 2 After a good night sleep we went out to wander the streets. We walked through the old town and walked past the hoai kien lake and the temple situated on the lake. We had read about this Water puppet show and decided to try to get some tickets as we were in the area. We got to the box office and although it said that they were fully booked we decided to have a go and we managed to get some tickets for the 21:15 show. After we got the tickets we tried ...

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Hong Kong day 7/ Hanoi day 1 After quite a late night we still got up early to book some flights and try to plan some last bits before heading off to the airport for our flight. We got to Hanoi about 4PM and then had to wait for about an hour to get our VISA. There was no order to how your application was processed and some people behind us managed to get theirs back way ahead of us. When we finally got out the driver was waiting for us to take us to the hotel....

Hong Kong Day 1 After a 3.5 hour flight from Tokyo we arrived in Hong Kong where we were met by Nick, who we had arranged to stay with. We took a cab out to Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island and offloaded our bags. It was about 1 am by the time we arrived but as we didn't feel too tired we took Nick up on his offer to show us around some bars. It was quickly very apparent that this is a 24 hour city and it didn't feel like it was a Monday night at all. We finally fin...