We headed South from Halong Bay making a couple of stops at Hue, Hoi An and the beach town of Nha Trang before arriving at Ho Chi Minh City. Some of the journeys were pretty extreme on overnight bed buses which are actually more like dentist chair buses! We took a day trip to visit the Cao Dai Temple which was started by none other than Victor Hugo and is basically a mix of Hinduism, Buddhism and Catholism all rolled into one. We watched a service in the bright...

We set sail from Halong City to sail amongst the giant limestone islands in Halong Bay. We lived it up yet again on our air conditioned sail boat that unfortunately had no concept of what the term 'vegetarian' meant! Caroline challenges you to eat eggs for 4 consecutive meals followed by lettuce in a bowl of boiling water (with added supernoodles) and not be a little annoyed! The day started with a "welcome drink" - translated "1 inch of fanta in ...

How long does it take to cross a border from Laos to Vietnam? Well for us - 4 DAYS!!! Mainly due to the fact that someone thought it would be funny to sell us a bus ticket for a bus that didn't exist!! This meant we were stuck in Phonsavan - THE dullest place on the face of the Earth! But, we finally made it accross and into country number 7! The first major stop was the capital, Hanoi. We spent 2 days looking for a museum which, when we did eventually find woul...