Normal 0 Today was a good day though, we decided to visit Hanoi prison aka the Hanoi Hilton. It was 2 minutes from the hotel but mr tony took us the wrong way and we got lost!!! It was interesting to see the cells and find out about the inmates and what happened and so on. It was starnge even to be in a prison! But no it was really good. After we left we decided to go and visit the army museum, I even had to buy a ticket for my camera! There were lo...

Normal 0 Today we were slightly hungover so slept in and decided to go to the zoo, I wish I hadn't now, it was horrible.There was a really big lake with dead fish floating everywhere which we didn't think was a good sign! It didn't even look like a zoo but as you walked through the gate there was a row of cages with all different animals. They were really small, filthy and with nothing to stimulate the animals, it wasnt nice. The first cage had 2 black be...

Normal 0 The train got in at 4.45am, so we were still very tired and slightly grumpy. We got a taxi to Hanoi Backpackers Hostel as we'd heard it was really nice there. We arrived at 5.30am and the women told us we couldn't check in til 6.30 am, we were not impressed! However internet was free so we went online and I got to speak to Becca! so that was good. 6.30am came and they told us they had no rooms and that we should wait until 11am; as you can ...

Normal 0 We woke up in the morning and it was still really wet and miserable so we decided to head back to lao cai (you can do treks and things here but it didn't look fun when its always raining and you can't see anything!)We got on a bus and were on it for over an hour, driving round and round, when it reveresed it played the tune to 'its a small world'! slightly annoying! When we thought we were finally going to go as the bus was full they got ev...

Normal 0 We woke up feeling refreshed so went and had lunch and walked to the top of the hill and along to the lake, where tony got very jealous of the men fishing there! There were 2 young women following us up the hill saying 'i follow you til you buy from me'! We were just smiling saying no thankyou again and again until they finally left! We then gained an elderly woman, showing me cushion covers, following us right up to the egde of the lake! c...