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 ...