Day 47 - 20/11/09 - Hanoi (Vietnam) After breakfast, we walked back to near Hoan Kiem Lake where we booked front row tickets to a water puppet show for Wednesday 25th. This is said to be a must see in Hanoi, and it was booked out for the next few days, so we are quite excited to see it. It was a whole AUD$6 for 2 first class, front row tickets, and will be an extra AUD$1 for us to be able to take pictures during the show... We then walked through the Old Quart...

Toot! Toot! Toooooot! Toooooot! Day 45 - 18/11/09 - Chiang Mai & Bangkok (Thailand) & Hanoi (Vietnam) Today was going to be a busy day - we needed to catch 2 planes, ending up in Hanoi, Vietnam. After our last breakfast with Rhys & Erica, we checked out, said our goodbyes and caught a taxi to the airport. It was very strange to be going from 4 to 2 after 6 weeks together! We got to Chiang Mai airport and wrapped our bags. Our first flight was domes...

Cute and cuddly tigers :D Day 43 - 16/11/09 - Chiang Mai (Thailand) After breakfast and packing our bags, we checked out of the hotel and left our bags with them for the day. The hotel van then took us to Tiger Kingdom where we were having some lunch and going to pat and play with tigers!! Once we arrived at Tiger Kingdom, we had the hardest decision, as we had to choose the package of what tiger/lion enclosures we wanted to enter. There were new born tigers, ...

1,2,1,2,1,2... Day 41 - 14/11/09 - Chiang Mai (Thailand) Bob met us this morning at 9:00am after breakfast for a drive to Doi Suthep Temple. This is a Buddhist temple atop of a mountain and a climb of 306 stairs - this gives an amazing view over Chiang Mai. After Bob dropped us back off at the hotel, we had just enough time for lunch before we were met by our new guide, Rit. Rit would be our guide for the 25-30km bike ride for the afternoon. The ride included ...

Finally a hotel with a swimming pool :D Day 39 - 12/11/09 - Hong Kong (China) & Bangkok & Chiang Mai (Thailand) Today began with a trek to escaltor which we caught to the train station for our train to the airport. We found that the in-town check in did not have luggage wrapping facilities, and we needed a train ticket to the airport to use the in-town check in, so we decided to go to the airport to check in. At Hong Kong airport, we had our lugguage w...