Hi All! Just a quick post before I leave Chiang Mai. At the moment I am waiting for the others to return before we get a taxi to the airport. They have gone to look at a temple. I have to say that I am all templed out! We are leaving this afternoon to fly down to Phuket, the flight is about an hour and a half. We were going to get the bus but then we went into a travel agent and they said that we would have to get 2 night buses and to stop in Bangkok for a day. W...

Hi All! At the moment we are in Chiang Mai. Well after our first day in Hanoi we decided to go to Halong Bay for 3 days. We left Hanoi early on the Tuesday morning and got to Halong City around lunch time. There were the 5 of us and a couple from our hotel which were on the same trip as us and between us we had our own guide for the 3 days! We were shown to our junk. I thought there would be a lot of junks at the harbour but there were hundreds! We were shown to ...