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...