Normal 0 So we decided to go up into the mountains to a little town 2 hours away called Sapa instead of a 10 hour train journey to Hanoi (not ready just yet!) We relaxed in the morning, checking out at 12, fully prepared in our rain gear (thankyou dad the jackets were a life saver!) although we appear to have lost tonys waterproof cover for his rucksack, we then walked to find a bus. Unfortunately we had to wait an hour as everything closes between 12pm a...

So, yesterday we checked out, having a long lunch and buying more dvds (101 for 4 english pounds!!!) We went on the pc for a bit and then ccollected our bags and headed to the bus station. It was so confusing, coaches and buses everywhere, luckily a woman helped us and took us to the right one. It was a bit of a surprise as they were 3 rows of beds across, and 2 high, with pillows and duvets, not what we were expecting! We set of at 7.30pm for our 12 hour train ...

today was a random day!! i had a bad nights sleep in the dorm, the beds are worse than the train!! we went for lunch and decided to play mini golf. our taxi driver took us to an actual golf course charging 4400 yuan for a round, but we only wanted crazy golf! so we then had to try and get another taxi, who evetually got us to the right place! it was really cool thre, apparently the first in china, it was run by a couple of american guys and was done really well,...

we had a long journey and arrived at the hotel after luchtime so we checked in and me and tony went to as western restaurant for lunch...pizza, potato and cheese and onion rings, it hit the spot!! we then booked our bus to vietnam and sent off for our visas that arrive on wednesday, we leave wednesday night!! we booked our 2 nights accomadation in dorms for the next 2 nights after evryone leaves. before we went out to dinner everyne had to have their introductio...

youll have to excuse the repeat of pictures on here, im using stas as it takes so long to upload my own! Soooo, today we met at 8am on our way to the panda reserve!!! (apparently woolong was actually destroyed in the earthquake and all the pandas have been moved, some to here and other places) We first walked in and saw 4 adult pandas eating bamboo, very cute, but the guide had tols us the babies were round the corner so i had to move on quickly!! There was a wo...