Anna Gade

Second time I was in Hanoi, I stayed at a hostel, it was my first hostel on my trip, and it was the first time, I wasn't sharing a room or travelling with someone, so that was something different. I had found a hostel online, and went directly there, when I arrieved from Ninh Binh. I had a minor food poisoning, so I didn't have much energy, so when I arrived at the hostel, I just felt like dying. A guy in the hostel, Jeremy, helped me get better, and the next day we went out to see a "jungle" in Hanoi, that he had been talking about. But before I went "jungle trekking" with him, met with Louise and Camilla, who arrived in Hanoi that day. It was really nice seeing Louise again, eventhough I ... read more

Bo and I had bought "hard sleeper" tickets to the train from Hanoi to Sapa and expected - and kind of hoped for the experience as well - wooden beds, which unfortunately wasn't the case. Instead we discovered, that the only difference between "hard" and "soft" sleeper was, that there were 6 people instead of 4 people in a room in a "hard sleeper" and the beds was a bit wider in the "soft sleeper". But the "hard sleeper" was nice and comfortable, so we were happy with our choise, eventhough we didn't get the wooden benches, that we had hoped for. In Sapa Bo and I chose to do two different trips, one of them was climbing "Mount Fan Si Pan", which I had planned on doing, even before I left Denmark, the other trip ... read more

On our way north from Hué to Hanoi, we took a sleeper bus, and that was definitely an experience. The light was shot of at 7 pm and and at 7 am, the bus driver woke the entire bus by playing some "Umtji umtji-music". When we arrived in Hanoi we found a place, where they could fix Bos Visa, and after that we went directly to Ha Long City. We chose to go to Ha Long City, because we didn't want anymore tourist tours, since the memory of the trip to the Mekong Delta still was very fresh. So instead we stayed one night in Ha Long City, and that was more than enough. There was absolutely nothing to see or do in the citry, except for waiting for a boat out in the bay. We ... read more

We went to Da Nang, so that Bo could get a visa, which was why we extended our motorbikeride and therefore skipped Hoi An.He got 15 days on arrival and our embassy told os, that it would be possible to get one in Da Nang, which was why we went there. But that was unfortunately not true. So we boked a bus ticket north, in order to go to Hanoi as fast as possible. Da Nang was not a city on my list of places, that I wanted to see, and I'm not planning on going back there. It was quite boring, not beautiful at all, no soul and bad food, a lot of fishsoup, that smelled and tasted like rotten fish. We did however see a charm museum with a lot of beautiful sculptures from ... read more

I was in Da Lat twice, but not for long any of the times, and I didn't really get a good impression of the city either of the times. The first time, Bo and I arrived late in the afternoon after taking a sleeperbus from Ho Chi Minh, where I managed to get a cold from the aircon. At the busstation we met th Easy riders, who drove us to a hotel and explained about their trips, so we decided to go with them on motorbikes the next day. Er walked a bit around the town that evening, but it was late, when we arrived and almost dark when we alked around and also a bit cold, so it was hard to get a good impression of the city. We did however see the big lake, ... read more