We caught a sleeper train to Lao Cai to get to Sapa in the North of Vietnam right up near the Chinese border. It is quite bizarre that we will be there again but on the China side in several weeks time. The vagaries of cheap air flights mean we will go North to South in Vietnam then back to KL then North to South in China ending up right close at the end of the trip to Sapa again when we are in Yangzhou, China . The attractions at Sapa are the beautiful mountains...

Plenty of advice flies around about how to cross a road in Hanoi. There is only one way - just do it! Walk and keep walking. We settled into the pace crossing many roads on a really long walk, straight after we arrived, to the Ho Chi Ming Complex. The traffic is amazing, but there doesn't seem to be any agro, everybody just weaves in and out and around and everybody does their best to dodge each other. Not always with success!!.We had a bit of a mission in ...

KL airport has an overnight hotel just off the airport car park. The rooms are tiny, and I mean tiny, but are fine if all you are wanting between flights is a bed. To get anything extra it costs, even if you want the air con on, but hey its budget. As a bonus after leaving the airport, on the far side of the car park is a cafeteria. The food is basic but a lot of choice and great for the budget conscious. So we stopped for a feed.The Tune Hotel also has a 7 eleve...

Travel often brings surprises of the nicest kind, that relate to right time, right place. We arrived in Brunei for National Day and were able to see how the locals celebrate the equivalent to our Australia Day – very differently!We caught a cab into the city and for a little more we asked him to drive us around to see the outlying sights for one and a half hours. It worked out so well, as the following day it turned out, we were going to be busy with Nation...

The taxi arrived at the Rasa Ria Resort and as we gingerly eased ourselves out, favouring our aching muscles and sore feet, the doorman rushed up and said "Congratulations did you make it all the way to the top?" we answered in the affirmative, but were briefly bemused, then it hit us, normal people don't hobble quite the way we were.  The welcome was effusive, with a gong ringing out and Yoko, one of the receptionists coming out to greet us. She took us im...