12th Ocotber So our sleeper train arrived back in Hanoi at abut 6am and we quickly realised that we had to wait until 7pm the same evening to catch our sleeper bus to Hue. Found a nice little hotel that let us pay less to stay there until about 4.30pm so we could sleep some more and freshen up - money well spent!! We raced around Hanoi one last time - visiting the temple on Hoan Kiem Lake and trying out some more street food - until we finally boarded our sle...

Sapa 9th - 10th October After a not too bad sleep on the overnight sleeper train, we arrived an hour and a half late (6:30am!) in Lao Cai train station. A minibus was waiting to take us to our hotel in Sapa, and the 1.5 hour journey went by pretty quickly as we dozed to catch up on some sleep. As we pulled up to the entrance of the hotel, there were about 30 girls/women from the black Hmong tribe all waiting to greet us. They were all chatting to us as we made...

7 October - 8th October Ha Long Bay Today was one of the tours we were looking forward to most.Ha Long Bay.The bus picked us up early doors and we started our approx. 4 hour journey to Ha long city.This time went by fairly quick as we dozed off for a while and listened to some music.Soon enough we could see the limestone islands in the distance, then before we knew it we were there.We left everyone else who was on our bus as they hadnt booked a 'delux tour' l...

6th October So Hanoi here we come! Up and out early after a brekkie of baguettes with jam and butter or a fried egg ( this seems to be pretty much standard for most of Vietnam and so it would seem variety is not the spice of life when it comes to breakfast!). We manage to navigate the maze of little back streets round by our hotel and head back to Hoan Kiem lake to get our bearings. Bach Ma Temple and Dong Xuan market are on the cards and after some superb map r...

Sooooo, after travelling through China we realised that a blog may be the way to go to make sure we are keeping all and sundry up to date on our world adventures! Unfortunately, we can't be bothered to try and blog about everything we did in China - it would literally take us ages and so we shall just start from Vietnam! So we left Hong Kong on the 4th October and touched down in Bangkok airport knowing that we had an epic 11 hour wait ahead of us until we could...