Sat in our hanoi hotel we were delivered a superb presentation showcasing all the options for tours of the famous halong bay, all on board spectacular looking new build junks with air con, white linen at dinner & visiting all the must see pinnacles & bays, it all sounded fantastic....if you were a retired American travelling with a dinner jacket We did However glean some great info from our high pressure encounter prior to letting her down gently, which ...

I have lost a draft message!! - never mind, it was in concise as ever and I will still have many stories to tell when I get home! Since arriving in Hanoi we took a bus and boat to cat ba island then have a two day cruise in ha long bay tomorrow....disappointedly it has dropped from 35 degrees to 15 degrees cooler here in the north (and overcast....., bearing on cold) but it's acclimatising us for our return nicely...fingers tightly crossed for some sun in ha long...

Found my draft blog ...... We're in the frame of mind at the mo where we would like to call Vietnam Vietscam....or Scamnam. Not so endearing...they are hellbent on outrageously overcharging you here (most evident between hoi an to hanoi....) Life would be so much easier if there were price tags - haggling and negotiating the price is tiring! Travel reviews warn you that the route between Hoi An - Hanoi - to Halong bay are well known for hotel hustles and trans...

Found my draft blog ...... We're in the frame of mind at the mo where we would like to call Vietnam Vietscam....or Scamnam. Not so endearing...they are hellbent on outrageously overcharging you here (most evident between hoi an to hanoi....) Life would be so much easier if there were price tags - haggling and negotiating the price is tiring! Travel reviews warn you that the route between Hoi An - Hanoi - to Halong bay are well known for hotel hustles and trans...

Well Anthony wasn't keen on going in the Cu Chi tunnels but he did just fit!! The tunnels had been described as an amazing feat of infrastructural ingenuity and they weren't wrong! We visited the The Cu Chi tunnels to get an insight into what the American military were up against fighting a war underground. On arrival at the Cu Chi tunnels we were taken to an an underground room to watch a short history documentary about how people survived in these tunnels, dis...