The morning of the Halong bay boat trip we were both pretty tired but excited. It was a 4hr bus ride from Hanoi with a brief stop at 'pottery village' a very appropriate stop for a group of tourists about to embark on a 3 day booze cruise!! Once we arrived at the harbour it we took a small fishing boat to the Jolly Roger. The boat was really cool, with a bar and eating area on the middle deck, ensuite rooms below and on the top deck was loads of sun loungers fo...

I know we start every blog with some sort of bus horror story, but this by far was the worst EVER! A bus SO bad and a journey SO long it's taken nearly a month for us to write it up and relive the experience all over again. We left Lang Prabang at 4pm on a weds and finally arrived in Hanoi and 11pm the following day! We set off with hope, knowing it wouldn't be fun but thinking we could eat and sleep through it. However it was 18hrs before we stopped for any f...