Sa-bai dee After our night in Hanoi we went to Ha Long bay and Cat Ba island close by. We spent the day on a boat tour and went kayaking around the islands which were stunning. Kayaking was so much fun but got progressively harder due to the numerous water fights flooding our little kayak. We paddled under a small gap in a rock into a huge circle of rock which echoed all of our crazy shouting. We had a sea food BBQ on a little deserted beach which was once a...

Hello again, im now in Hanoi after the 14 hour train journey through most of which I was half asleap and hallucinating that a spider was falling on my face - apparently down to the malaria tablets.Getting used to the overnight trains and they mostly entail hours of card games and bread with cow cheese and Pringles! So over the last few days I have gotten myself completely lost as to where I am and where iv been, Hoi An, Hanoi, Nha Trang, Da Nang and probably mor...

Tuesday 25 Sept Xin chao everyone, Im now in Hoi An, a small town near the sea.Its really beautiful here although quite touristy.There is a full moon festival going on at the moment which basically means the children dress up as dragons and scary looking crop pickers and wheel mahoosive drums around all night beating them.There are loads of little groups of them everywhere and they cause big road blocks when they spot a tourist and dance around you shouting &...

Ok so now im in Nha Trang on the east coast of Vietnam and its beautiful.Its 5pm on Friday 22nd and we've just got back from an island hopping beach day which was just what I needed after the overnight train from Saigon. Saigon was crazy, all the ppl were mentalists on mopeds who drove directly at any poor b***** trying to helplessly cross the road (no crossings) I think it's a way of keeping tourist numbers down personally! However as many of u know, my crossin...

Goooooooooood morning Vietnaaaaammmmm! (sorrym had to be done - iv bought the t-shirt too!!!) So yes im in Vietnam, its Wed 21st i think at 12pm, wer all sat the the lobby checking out then wev got the day to wonder around Ho Chi Mihn City (Saigon). Wev been here for 3 days so seen a fair bit of it already. When we left Sihanoukville we went to Phnom Pehn, i went with the boys to a shooting range and shot an AK47, what a kick on that, it nearly took my cheek of...