Vietnam
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Wednesday, 22 Jul 2015 | Views [225]
We booked on to the infamous Castaways tour to Ha Long Bay - one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. Castaways is full of backpackers and is essentially a 3 day party on a private beach and a boat.
After the 5 hour trip from Hanoi we got to the ... Read more >
Sunday, 19 Jul 2015 | Views [225]
We took a bus 5 hours out of Hanoi to Sapa in the mountains near the border of China. We had decided that we wanted to see a bit more of rural Vietnam so organised a homestay for 3 days with a Vietnamese family up in a mountain village near Sapa called ... Read more >
Saturday, 18 Jul 2015 | Views [207]
After taking an overnight bus to get to Hanoi, which went without any hiccups, we got ripped off as soon as we got to the city by getting in a taxi with a rigged meter - we ended up paying 10x the price it should have been. We thought about contesting ... Read more >
Monday, 13 Jul 2015 | Views [205]
7 of us had booked a dorm room in the hostel together but they had fully booked so we got upgraded to 2 hotel style private rooms - for the same price of $4 a night! Huub, Vicky and I ended up sharing the room and it was luxury, just what we needed after ... Read more >
Monday, 13 Jul 2015 | Views [316]
We realised that we'd be missing out massively if we didn't do a motorbike tour from Hoi An through the Hai Van Mountain Pass to Hue which was made famous by the Top Gear Vietnam episode - Clarkson praised it as 'one of the best coast roads in the world'.... Read more >
Monday, 13 Jul 2015 | Views [225] | Comments [2]
We arrived at 7am after the 12 hour bus journey - which thankfully went relatively smoothly except for the crazy driving and awful bumpy roads! We sunbathed for most of the day around the pool in the hostel and played some pool (pretty badly). That evening ... Read more >
Monday, 6 Jul 2015 | Views [230]
We really don't have much luck with the sleeper buses - our bus to Nha Trang crashed into an oncoming truck! Luckily no one was hurt but we had to wait for another bus to come adding about 3 hours to our journey. We're both nervous for the 12 hour bus ... Read more >
Saturday, 4 Jul 2015 | Views [227]
We had an eventful start to our few days in Mui Ne. After almost missing the bus from Ho Chi Minh City, it blew a tyre a few hours into the journey. It took the drivers about 2 and a half hours to fix it and screw a new one on at the side of the road.... Read more >
Thursday, 2 Jul 2015 | Views [290]
We're now in Vietnam which is the part of the trip we were most excited for. We spent 2 days in Ho Chi Minh City visiting the War Museum, Cu Chi Tunnels and a waterpark.
The sound of the city is the beeping from all the motorbikes (of which there ... Read more >
