As Mully and I patiently awaited the arrival of our bus in the Hello Vietnam Guesthouse we met the two girls from New Zealand who were also on the trip and sat quietly for over an hour. It finally arrived and we followed a Vietnamese guy to a bus and he took the bags off the girls who got onto the bus and then refused to take ours as we weren't to be picked up by this bus. So back to the hotel to wait for another bus, by this time it had been an hour and a half since we [View Full Entry]

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Đã lâu nay mới trở lại với Sapa, thành phố trong sương vẫn mây bay, sương mờ và những con người lam lũ, nhưng phố xá thì thất vọng vô cùng. lại cái môtip nhà ống 3m... chán như con gián! [View Full Entry]

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Khu rừng còn nguyên thuỷ này may mắn không bị con đường HCM xén mất [View Full Entry]

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NƠI ĐÂY, TRÊN NHỮNG VÁCH NÚI ĐÁ XÁM CẰN CỖI VÀ XÁC SƠ LÀ NHỮNG NGƯỜI DÂN H'MONG THẬT ĐÁNG THƯƠNG.HỌ SỐNG VÀ LÀM VIỆC NHƯ NHỮNG CON ONG CẦN CÙ NGÀY QUA NGÀY [View Full Entry]

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hi everyone this morning we finally arrived in hanoi (our fourth flight) it is a crazy place with lots of shops for every thing you can possibly think of...the area where we are staying in is about 1000 years old. there must be more motorbikes here than there is of any other source of transport. it is a real mission to cross the street with lots of motor bikes, taxis, buses, cyclos and trucks. tomorrow we are heading off to halong bay to stay on a chinese junk boat. mum is looking forward to that. we will be staying 2 nights [View Full Entry]

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Ngày đầu năm, cùng cơ quan cũ đi thăm đến Hùng [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Nam and first stop was Hanoi, home of the Viet Mien. A Crazy place where it takes two days to cross the street. Honda done very well selling mopeds here. Stayed in Backpackers hostel, australian theme hostel and pretty cool. Next day we looked at the bible (lonely Planet)and all that seemed of interest was the ethanology museum. Basically a museum teachhing us all about the the different ethnic groups in Vietnam. Ok..... There was a BBQ organised for the top of the hostel but we left that and met some guys and sat down on baby chairs on [View Full Entry]

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Ok so we arrived at the hotel in Ha Long bay about 6 30am. None of the rooms were ready to check in so we ate breakfast, freshened up in the bathroom and then I took a walk down to the bay. Ha Long bay has over 1600 islands and the view from the bay was pretty amazing. There was a lot of mist out on the sea so the islands that I could see in the distance looked really majestic. When I went back to the hotel one room was ready and luckily for me Marta had grabbed it because [View Full Entry]

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Signing back on again. I am in Phu Yen and the hotel I am at does not have internet. Last night Yen Bai was a very large city but Phu Yen here appears to be much smaller. The hotel is again older but clean. No TV here but the a/c works and the hotel has an amazing garden/courtyard outside. Old giant trees completely cover everything in shade and they have plants and flowers and shrubs all over. There are rabbits running around and hamsters and birds in cages everywhere. I came out here after a shower to sit and enjoy the [View Full Entry]

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Day one up north. Well, it was very sad to say goodbye to Dave and Sarah. From now on I will be spelling her name correctly with an H at the end. Sorry Sarah for the screwup. I had one full day in Hanoi before I left for the train last night. We all had one more dinner. Dave found a very famous place that only serves one thing. Actually the book said "legendary". They serve fish that you cook in front of you yourself with a bunch of different things to mix in. We figured if you only serve one [View Full Entry]

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