After the two epic trips to halong bay and Sapa, also living in Hanoi for the best part of 10 days which was fantastic but so hectic, it was time to move down the country to hue. Got another sleeper bus which took 14 hours to get to hue, upon arriving it felt even hotter than Hanoi, and since its coming into summer it's only going to get worse. The first thing that struck me was how much more quieter the roads and streets were, it was still busy but had nothing...

The next day after my halong bay trip was my 3 day, 2 night tour of Sapa. I heard from word of mouth that it was one of the top things to do in Vietnam but I didn't know much about it so I kept it that way so it would be a surprise for me. Sapa is located 10 hours north of Hanoi so I was booked in to do a sleeper bus to get there. The only downside is that because this is Vietnam it's catered for smaller people, not being racist here at all but it's the truth, ...

My first tour in Asia was halong bay. It was a 4 hour bus journey up further north in Vietnam to a gateway city called halong which is what cairns is to the Great Barrier Reef. Halong bay has been voted as one of the new natural 7 wonders of the world and I heard from a lot of people it was definitely worth going. After the bus journey we were put into our groups, there was different groups depending on which company you booked through and also how long you were...

I left chill, Brisbane and Australia on the Friday evening for a flight at 11pm to Taiwan, with a 3 hour stop over before catching the next flight to Hanoi. Soon as I got off the plane you could feel how strong the heat was, very sticky and humid. I arranged a taxi through my hostel to pick me up so after I collected my bags there was a guy standing there waiting for me with a sheet of paper in his hand that said my name. We went to his car and set off to th...

Leaving oz It's been 4 months now that I've worked at chill and its been an unreal experience, apart from meeting awesome people and friends for life, some crazy experiences working at the hostel and the other side to backpacker life looking after the drunk and crazy people. Too many stories to tell about working there but I won't go into it, mostly because its quite foul but apart from that i had a great time working with the other staff. Living in that staff ...