Hello again! First up can I just say Mum I've sent you a load of emails but it seems to us that hotmail emails don't get through from Vietnam at all, coukld you drop me a line now I'm in Laos to let me mknow everything's ok? So where to start? Sunday eveningwe had a quiet night in Halong bay city, as there is nothing set up for tourists there, so we just bought a few cans of beer at a local market and had a chat. Monday we left early to go back to Hanoi abd arr...

Hi all! I'm only writing up five day's worth of events but we've done absolutley loads, so this may be a long entry. Dinner on Monday night was absolutlely fantastic! The food here really is amazing. We had cocktails for someone's birthday and left the sailing club at 2. We stayed up chatting untill very late and ended up going back out to a local bar untill the sun came up and the owner threw us out. Needless to say we woke up late on Tuesday and while some br...

Monday night dinner was delicious! We stayed at the sailing club all night due to their 'jam jars' -$2 cocktails of unknown origin- they did the trick. Woke late Tuesday 8th and went to the mud baths. Mud soak, mineral shower, infused mineral bath, foot massage, hot spring, ful body massage. Dead cheap and we left feeling relaxed and ready for the sleeper train journey to Da Nang. The train was filthy! Bribed the staff for some clean linen at least. Comfortable n...

welcome to vietnam! Arrived late in Saigon on the 4th after 2 delayed flights and a stressful connection in qatar. waited over an hour for a visa stamp. the officials took our passports and eventually called out namés in no particular ỏrdẻr to collect them with the vísa stamps. thểre was a huge scrum òf people waiting and it was vẻry hot! cab ride to hotal was an ẽxpẻrience. thêre are 30 million scooters in vietnam due to the price of tãx on cars...