So on the train Sarah was worse than normal (sarah is ashleys mate and treats him like crap and i have no idea why he puts up with it) and i went to sleep earlier than ashley and sarah cause i couldnt take her anymore. Fortunately when we get to hanoi shes going to thailand so no more time with her, to be honest i enjoyed ashleys company and its a pity sarah came as the package. Sarah managed to go through all my pringles and my water, i discovered this at 5.40 am when we rolled in to lao chai and was tired and not best pleased, we were crammed onto a bus with other folk coming for the tour and an hour later we were in sapa which is a charming little town in ... read more

So the fun and antics from the previous day meant a rather late start to the day...lol, we eventually arose just after 11am and jeremey came round shortly after 2pm. We hired some moto taxis and were driven to My SOn a hindu cham temple and the views of the countryside on the way there and back were marvelous and im really liking vietnam and its people. The journey had a few hazards like a sweaty bum,numb bum and all our drivers having death wishes. We arrived to my son and the heat was swealtering and it was 60,000 dong to enter and comparing this to other sites and prices elsewhere on this trip it seemeed a little high. We met an aussie couple there who said they had visted it in 15 mintutes and a ... read more

So my birthday was an early rise for my tour and not the greatest start as my stomach decided not to like the previous nights curry and so took some tablets for that, then i got to agency after changing cash and the bus did not turn up and so i ended up being on a motot taxi and a car taxi to meet the bus and get on the tour so trike one against fantastic tours. I made the bus and sat next to a german traveler id met the other day at the war remants musuem and so we chatted and he had a buisness in germany and sold it and is traveling on the money he got. Our tour guide tam was excellent and a real good laugh and excellent english and he ... read more

So we were up at 5.30am for our 6am pick up and it was late so i jumped on the net and checked some emails etc. Eventually it arrived and a fwe more pick ups and we arrived at the main big bus, appreantly its a limousine as they are called mekong lisounie bus service. Well it was better than some busses there, but the were some nice ones there and we had paid a 11 bucks each for this bus, i brought some water and bread from vendors as it was a 7 hr bus journey, it turned out we had a snack and water included on the bus dohhhh, we had a guy with a mircophone at the front of the bus pointing stuff out but he was quiet and mumbled and so we ... read more

Realised this morning that my trainers have different colour laces so i need to get them back and get them both with the right colour, also need to get some us dollars for cambodia and emailed my parents to get some more money transfered and worked out a rough date plan to going through cambodia and vietnam and laos, i want to be in chang mia before the end of july so i can do some trekking there and then get down to bangkok book some diving and straight on to koh tao for 4 days of diving and then back in bangkok with another days to get my india visa sorted and some shopping done and then off to india for 5 days and then home. I did some shopping for some lighter cl9othes for ... read more