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Geo: 18.9401, 102.357Waking early, we ate our regulation Asian backpacker breakfast of eggs (scrambeld), jam and bread and then headed quickly for the bikes that the hotel had managed to procure for us while we were enjoying our delicious sausage spring rolls last night! Our destinations were a the Golden Temple (via the palace, Arch du Triumph and the Black Stupa) and the heart-warming COPE centre.We mounted our wobbly bikes and headed into the Vientiane traffic. Still searching for the sleepy backwater we had expected of Laos, we weaved our way through the luxury vehicles past the Black Stupa. The differenc... read more

Geo: 21.0243, 105.855We rose early and went for another perfect breakfast in our perfect hotel, with its perfect staff. Stacey is now getting into the swing of the pill crushing, it's only taking about 4 spoons of jam and sugar for each malaria tablet now; only another 17 days of tablets to go! :)Hanoi itself is made up of several areas the old quarter, the French quarter, the lake etc. Most of our experiences in the city have seen us navigating the maze of streets in the Old Quarter: each street sells only one type of produce and every shop in that street sells the same style of item: there's Silk Street, Pots and Pans Street, Jewellery Street - you get the picture. We are currently apparently residing on Plastic Toy Street (a la Toymaster, not ... read more