Day 110 Hanoi - Vientiane We reached the border at about 6am. I got lots of sleep thanks to my deafness but poor old Em hardly any because of Mr snoring Snorison below us. The border was absolutely freezing, it was like crossing a mountain. Having been stamped out of Vietnam for the price of a dollar, we headed for the Laos border. Annoyingly the coach wouldn't take us the 500 yard distance. This wouldn't normally have mattered but it was freezing and our feet w...

Day 106 Halong Bay - Hanoi We had a difficult nights sleep because we heard rats during the night. We were also woken up early by the ships engines and the crew watching tv again outside our room – hate Vietnamese karoke channels! Breakfast was really disappointing so we had another really good moan with Ian. After breaki we arrived up the bay for some kayaking. Emma decided against it, due to the fact the kayak looked like it was a swimming pool inside, so I ...

Day 105 Hanoi – Halong Bay We had an early start and breakfast at our hotel, where we picked up at 8:30, where we sat on the tinniest seat on the world and taken to Halong Bay, for our two day one night trip on a boat. Our tour guides name was Viet who seemed friendly enough. We arrived in Halong Bay at about 12:30 and after a little while we boarded our Junk. The first tourist hot spot was a set of caves, with all the classic shapes of supposedly shaped anima...

Day 104 Hue - Hanoi We arrived in Hanoi and 6 am in the morning, the boys were freezing cold as they still had shorts and vests on from the day before. We checked in the hotel and somehow ended up with all three of us sharing a room. We also managed to book a trip to Halong Bay for $38 each, this is what tiredness does to you. So far Hanoi reminds us of India. We had a two hour sleep and then went on the hunt for breakfast, this took ages as everything is shut f...

Day 102 Hoi An - Hue It was an early start for us, as we had a bus at 7:30 to Hue. Annoyingly the bus didn't arrive until 9:00 am, luckily this gave us a chance to have breakfast. Roger got talking to a guy called Jacques, he's really nice and from New Zealand. The bus arrived whilst we were eating breakfast, which we literally had to run and jump onto. It was a long journey and we booked into a hotel with Jacques.We went for a long walk down to the river, it's ...