Luckily Laos gets much better from this point onwards as our next stop was the infamous Vang Vieng.....most famous for its crazy tubing and drinking!! Unfortunately some people decided to spoil the fun for the majority by dying here....27 of them in a year to be exact...so now everything is much tamer!!! First up for us was some rock climbing and abseiling....great fun and Phil has the bruises to prove it!!! We did 3 climbs of varying degrees and definitely used ...

So we finally left Vietnam, but not without a few moments!!! We got picked up from our guesthouse early, and by picked up we mean that a fella on a motorbike came along and we had to follow walking and carrying our bags...(hockey girls take note this may be a technique that Phil brings home with her!! Would mean we could get a lot more 'picked up' at once!!!)...he stopped us in front of a hostel and drove off...so we assumed that meant we were getting picked up t...

The night train was def an improvement on the sleeper buses, once you got used to the rocking!!! So we got up to Sapa nice and early, this is the main tourist spot in North Vietnam, a steep valley full of rice terraces like nothing else! Our time up there was spent walking about the rice terraces, into different villages, being amazed at what they farm....and having our heads wrecked by the very insistent local women selling anything and everything!! You can see ...

We basically stopped in Hue to break up the journey to Hanoi, so it was only a brief overnight stop here. We strolled around the old moated citadel ending with dinner at the waterfront where we tried a Vietnamese Hot Pot. This is basically where you are given a little pot on a burner with flavoured broth inside and you cook the seafood and greens as you go! So we got to try some squid, clams, prawns, pork and tofu....tasty and different! Next day it was the over...

So we had our first experience of the famous 'sleeper' buses going from HCMC to Nha Trang...they are cosy to say the least!!! Not really designed for people of our size!! It is basically 3 rows of 'bunk beds' on a bus, you can see from the pictures what they are like...but yeah a journey on them is interesting!!! So after an unknown change of bus in Mui Ne, we got to the little Russian seaside town of Nha Trang, oh sorry we meant Vietnamese town....This town seem...