I've now been in Sapa for four days, we're about to leave the town to catch the overnight train back to Hanoi.I've seen so much it's really hard to put a coherent report together - so I'll just do my best.The first thing you notice in Sapa is the women from the Black H'Mong tribe whose village is about 5km from Sapa. They roam the streets selling their wares.We got in early in the morning and had breakfast in a resteraunt and a couple of t...

I can`t believe it`s ony been 2 days since my last update - it feels like ages! I don`t know if I`ll keep this rate of updates up for the entire trip, we`ll just see how it goes.Rest of Day 1 - HanoiMost of the tour group met at 6pm in the hotel and we had a meeting of the trip. Out tour leader Hung, is great. He loves Vietnam, extremely knowledgable and has great English. The groups is myself, 4 Brits (Sarah, Glenn, Anne and Charlotte - I`m sharing with Glenn), ...

Hi Everyone, So I`ve made it to my hotel in Hanoi no worries - it ended up being fairly uneventful and not the saga I expected! The place is pretty well organised for for the tourists. Hanoi is a pretty cool place. Actaully though, not cool temperature wise - hot and humid most of the time with a break for rain everyday! Everyone drives around on motorbikes or bicycles and there`s horns going off continually. Just cross the road when there`s a gap in the tr...

OK, so I technically haven`t left yet, but since I left Tassie over a week ago and will head off in about 4 hours I think its time for an update. Spent Easter weekend in Daylesford for orienteering. Nothing special, I won a day, that`s about as exciting as it gets. Turns out Daylesford is the gay and lesbian capital of Victoria, which is funny cause we never noticed anything unusual the first time we went down the main road, but after we were told of the towns ...