We arrived in Hanoi with the rain around lunch time so we grabbed something to eat and then the standard post travelling nap for everyone. We met up for the orientation walk at 4pm and headed through the city. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam but isn't quite as big or busy as Ho Chi Minh. There are still the standard bonkers mopeds everywhere though. We walked through the city past the markets and finished up by one of the lakes. The girls headed back to the hot...

After another overnight train we eventually arrived into Danang at 10.30. We then had a short bus ride to the hotel in Hoi An. We checked in, dumped our stuff and headed out for orientation and lunch. We had a local BBQ lunch which consisted of barbecued pork and bean sprout omelettes which you wrap up with vegetables in rice pancakes and ate like fajitas. Delicious. Hoi An is a tourist town by the river and is well known for having hundreds of tailoring shops....

I have been a bit behind so have published two blogs in one go. So we continued to the Vietnam border, again going through the process of leaving one country before entering the next but the process was quicker than the Thai/Cambodian one. We got to the hotel at Chau Doc, had some late lunch and freshen up then onto the tours. First we headed to the river via the local (mad) market to get onto a long tail boat to go and see the floating village. We took a detou...