When we got back into Hanoi the coach stopped on the outskirts of town. They had other transportation to bring us to our hotel but we said we would walk as it would be quicker. We were dropped off not too far from where that overnight bus dropped us off when we got to Hanoi and the taxi brought us to town. It was literally around the corner from the old quarter!! The cheek of the taxi driver with his 17km and 290 dong! Still annoyed me to think about it! We chec...

It was so so misty this morning when we got up and looked out of window. You could hardly see anything at all. We were just glad that we didn't have that weather yesterday and actually got to see Ha Long Bay. We had breakfast on the boat which was fried eggs and bread and tea/coffee and then set off for our last activity of the trip. We went to a pearl farm in the middle of sea in Ha Long Bay and saw how they made and extracted pearls from oysters. After a short ...

We got up early for breakfast this morning and then checked out of the room for the trip. They said we could leave our big bags as we were coming back for one more night to stay after so we didn't have to lug them with us. We just packed our little rucksacks for stuff we would need for the night and all our valuables. The bus arrived pretty much on time at 8am and everything seemed great, not like some of the bad reviews we had read. The bus was nice and the tour...

Wow- I did not feel good when I woke up this morning! We didn't have the energy to get up early for breakfast so we had a bit of a sleep in instead. It didn't really seem to help me though! I woke up feeling awful- head killing, feeling sick and having serious toilet issues! I had my head over the bowl a few times before we decided we needed to go get something to eat. I didn't know if I would make it so we power walked to KFC where I threw up a couple more times...

We got up and headed down for breakfast which was included with the room- bonus! I tried fried eggy bread which was lovely and Nath had noodle soup which was a speciality in Hanoi. Before heading out we booked our trip to Ha Long Bay through the hotel with a boat called Dragon Deluxe Cruise by APT travel company. It looked pretty good and was a reasonable price ($95 each) for what you have included. You set off in the morning at 8am to travel to Ha Long Harbour t...