we arrived early morning in Sukhothai (I'm not going to say it too much its difficult to spell!) well anyway Sukhothai was once the capital of Thailand in the 12th century and is full of buddas and statues. after arriving at our guest house with our other travelers we got assorted into our rooms, we ended up across from Jen, who Sid had an intimate relationship with! (those who don't know Sid is a monkey teddy that travels with me and josh!) any way after Jens ...

we arrived in thailand at about 4am to check into our hotel where we meet our tour group. lucky for us it was an expensive hotel definatly one we couldnt afford, we checked in and found our room and fell straight asleep till about 12 midday. (obviously we were tired). it was a nice room with tv and nice marbled bathroom. we decided to take a look around bankok which led us onto a main road that was unnamed for some reason but it was always full of tourists! afte...

we got picked up from our hotel and made our way via charter bus to halong bay, we met up with a couple of foriegn travellers, couple of auzzys, couple french,couple of japanese, and four dutch. we got to the boats after making a stop at a ceramic factory (with no incentive of buying we used their toilets and got an ice cream). the boats were huge luxury vessels and each had a top deck that had some deck chairs on it was quite spectacular really. we got to our b...

arrived at hanoi at about 9pm and the first thing that hit us was the amazing scorching heat of outdoors! we stepped through the airconned doorway into what seemed like the sun! it was hot! we had multiple taxi drivers and companies trying to hustle us into thier car, because obviously it was the best! anyway after consulting the bible (lonely planets) we found a suitable taxi. after haggling in the scorching 28 degree heat for about 5 mins we decided to pile o...

we crossed the border into Hong Kong at about 0900 hours and they gladly let us back into our colonial ruled homeland. but ChanChan being a foreigner slowed us down slightly! we got a taxi which took us too our hotel which was a YMCA, a big posh YMCA! we had porters and door opener people! brilliant! We headed off in search for Josh's headphones as they'd be the cheapest than anywhere we go to. after browsing in numerous shops we eventually found some cheap, goo...