Today has been, so far, a long and stressful one- there's no particular reason why, I just feel frustrated, unorganised but equally unmotived. A late start today meant a late and crappy lunch in KFC. Lethargic and groggy I've been pointlessly trudging around a hot Hanoi trying to find a new bottle of mosquito repellant and a bank to swap my Dong for Dollars ready for Laos. No luck with that so I'll have to keep an eye open for those things on the boarder or in La...

We've been in Halong Bay for just a night and I've had an amazing one- everything so far has just been captivating and incredible on this trip; I'm feeling lucky to have booked onto it! So after our connection in Hanoi, we got the bus straight to Halong Bay... I say straight there but in fact, what actually happened was that because Marissa had a nightmare with the Asian style toilets on offer, the rest of the group had to hang on on the bus for her to find some...

So it's been a few busy days... Hoi An done and we've also just left our follow on destination, Hue. As Jay-Z raps: we're onto the next one AKA Hanoi! - It's going to be another sleeper journey now (14 hours). I don't even think we're stopping in Hanoi long as we have a bus picking us straight up to take us to our next destination on the tour, Halong Bay, before making our way back to Hanoi - currently on the train. Hue was absolutely lovely from what I seen of...

Going off the title of this blog entry, it won't be so hard to guess that it's infact been a day for many firsts! ...My first time having Cao lau, or to you and me: pork noodles with veg (very yummy) for breakfast. - Nothing like your average cereal or toast, I actually preferred that over cereal or toast anyway. My second first (confusing) was the rice and veg fields. - Not that I haven't seen farming crops before but I got to trudge bare foot through lotus swam...

Well I'll start off by saying that today has been yet another amazing one! First off, we went on the snorkell trip I mentioned lastnight- As a group, we travelled to two different spots on the coast. Despite feeling ill on the trip I was enchanted by the pretty sea creatures and the reefs (which were the most colourful and exotic I'd ever seen) - It was like a documentary unfolding before my eyes. In relation to the sickness, I dont know what had triggered it (...