OK. So yesterday was the worst day ever the whole time that I have been travelling! Firstly I tried to climb Fansipan!! I say tried: I got 1 hour into it, and our guide was practically running up the f***ing mountain: so I said: 'f*** this s***, either slow down, or I go back to Sapa," His response: "well we have to go very quick today, cos if it gets dark, its very dabngerous, and tomorrow is even worse, cos we will be climbing very steep all day."...

  OK, so I am currently on a motorbike 'road-trip' around the picturesque mountaneous area of Sapa. Me, Phil and Ferrina (Swiss girl that we met in Laos, who is travelling with us for a while), hired out a motorbike each and have taken to the hills for 4days. As I had never ridden a manual motorbike before, we also hired a guide to drive me on the back: his name is Lhong (very nice Vietnamese chap), also we thought it would be far safer with a local, who knows...