Thankful for our chance of a lie in, we awoke at 11am ready to go to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum to see his body lying in state. However, we discovered that this was only open until 11am each day. b*****! Our hotel phone then rang & it was Carly asking if we fancied meeting up for lunch. Having missed breakfast, this was a great idea, but the thought of more noodles & rice wasn't very appealing, we needed proper hangover food. So we made use of the best res...

That morning we headed back to Hanoi for the final leg of the Vietnam tour. We had arranged to meet up with Alan & Carly (the Scottish couple from our Cambodia tour) that evening, so it was destined to be a messy one!! Stopping for lunch & a beer at Legend Beer (once I saw that there was no other choice) we snatched Haavard & Inger (the Norwegian couple) away from the group & prepared ourselves for an evening of potential carnage. A quick trip to ...

Arriving in Hanoi at stupid o'clock in the morning, we boarded our coach for yet another 3 hours to take us to Halong Bay. Arriving at about 8:30am, we wolfed down breakfast & went to bed for a couple more hours before out boat trip around the bay. We boarded our private junk boat & had lunch, which was very tasty & seeing as not many people on my table liked seafood, meant I was fully satisfied with my portions! We had our own guide (Mr Hop) to take ...

Today was always destined to be a crap day. I was missing Lisa & Sean's wedding celebrations for a start! Joel & I spent the morning drying out our clothes using the hotel's hairdryer & pretty much melting the plastic casing in the process. We then had to board our overnight train just after midday as it was a 15 hour journey to Hanoi!! We stocked up on food & drink at the train station & whilst everyone modestly bought 3 or 4 beers for the jo...

We awoke this morning with no food poisoning...score!! Unfortunately we did have a 3 hour bus drive to Hue to look forward to. I didn't know much about Hue before arriving, but I can now tell you that it rains.....a lot!!!! After lunch, we decided that a 4 hour motorbike tour of Hue would be better than a boat trip that would take 6 hours. I think we were put off after Nha Trang's shambles! After purchasing some rather fetching ponchos that made us look like Smur...