Not a massive amount to report on as I was only here for a couple of days before my flight to Oz. I had a day of flights to get here, one from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City and then another to Singapore from there. There was a 6 hour gap between my two flights so I was pretty tired by the time I made it to Singapore. I took the equivalent of the tube from the airport to my hostel (the first time I'd booked some accommodation in advance for quite a while!). There ...

Hanoi - a place that sells 13p beers, really friendly people and a near death experience every time you try to cross the road! We arrived in Hanoi after a mammoth 24 hour bus journey leaving Laos at 7pm on Wednesday and arriving in Hanoi about 6.30pm the following day. Having stupidly read all of the reviews on the day of departure I wasn't overly confident the journey was going to go without a hitch. We were late arriving to Vientiane from Vang Vieng so we did...

After a pretty rough and bumpy 12 hour drive we had made it to Hué. Hué is ust below the old North/South Vietnamese border and just above the cities of Da Nang and Hoi An. When the royal family was in charge of Vietnam and before it was split into North and South, Hué used to be the capital of the country. Unfortunately the day we got here it was raining so none of us were hugely in the mood to go and explore the town. We booked two tours, one to visit the c...

We decided to take the sleeper train up to Sapa and it was a great idea. The journey took about 7-8 hours and we had compartments with 4 people in each one. I could just about lie straight in the bed and it was a really comfortable nights sleep. We arrived early morning into Lao Cai station and jumped into a bus to our hotel (Summit View Hotel), about 90 minutes away. The views from the drive were amazing, we saw the sun rising through the masses of clouds that ...

After Luang Prabang we began our journey down to Vang Vieng - the capital of Tubing! We spent a good hour arguing with a bloke at the hotel who was trying to tell us that only 9 out of the 11 of us had paid. Eventually he rang someone else at the hotel and it turns out we had all paid! The drive wasn't too bad overlooking the fact that the driver had no concept of using lower gears when going up steep mountain roads. When we arrived in Vang Vieng we found a grea...