It was lovely waking up to such a luscious view this morning of the limestone islands and the beach. We had breakfast and had to check out by 8am though, some people were staying for a second night which would have been nice but I'm sure we would have been bored by the evening. The extract pipe from the air con was dripping water because we had it turned on last night and of course the toiletries bag was smack bang underneath it so everything was absolutely soa...

We didn't need an alarm this morning, the engine of the boat was our wake up call at 6.45am! We were the room right at the back of the boat so we heard it chugging away. We preferred being woken up to that than a screeching alarm though! We packed and went up for breakfast at 7.30am, it was cool this morning but the sun was still trying to come through, but for the time being it was just overcast. We were going to pearl farm this morning, we jumped on the small...

We got picked up spot on 8am like they said, are we still in Asia!? We jumped aboard the 20 seat and low and behold Caroline was on there! She booked the same trip as us but only for one one night and two days were as we are doing the two nights and three days. After the rounds it took us 4 and half hours to get to the boat dock and that was with a much needed break for the happy room and some breakfast. The weather wasn't great when we arrived at the harbo...

There isn't much for us to do in Hanoi today and I wasn't feeling the best, I'm full up with a cold and have bad sinus. We ventured out late, went to the travel agency to let them know where we were staying so they could pick us up tomorrow. We went to a restaurant we had been before that was really good. Scott had recommendation to try Cha Bo, it's supposed to be a spicy beef broth with noodles in but it wasn't. There were noodles and and beef, lots of mint an...

We had a really late wake up call this morning, and no body was in our 'dorm' so we had a private room for dorm room prices which was good! We went out for breakfast at about 10.30am, hoping to go to little Sapa for food but they were still saying that they were closed! They have lost so much business off just us lot over the last few days! We settled for the fansipan restaurant, it was nice sitting outside on the terrace watching the world go by, and the Pho w...