Checked out at half 7 and went across the road the the sister guest house at 8 for breakfast. They gave us bread and jam. The bus was supposed to arrive at 9 but as always it was late an arrived at 9.30 and set off at 10! The bus was absolutely boiling hot!! Never been so hot in my entire life! Everyone was crammed on as well but we had to sit and listen to this stupid dredlock girl blabber on about how she is flying to Thailand to get her hair fixed as she si...

Got up at 7.30, packed and checked out at 8. A guy came to pick us up in a mini bus to Halong Bay. The bus was full, the trip to Halong Bay was cancelled yesterday as there are tropical rainstorms so everyone is going today instead! The bus stopped at The Ruby Emperor at about 11, it was a very strange place purely there to get tourists to spend money on expensive things! It had a cafe, food shops, clothes shop, museum and ornament table. It was all in a shac...

Got off the sleeper bus at 7! As I had one of the middle bunks I didn't sleep very well because I kept thinking I was going to fall off either side! We shared a taxi to the old quarter with a girl from Malaysia and a boy from Canada! The girl was telling is it's probably not the best time to be going to Malaysia when we are in 3 weeks because they are still in Ramadan! I think we can work around this though! It was chucking it down! We had booked a room for t...

Got up and Michaels current obsession is French food so we went to go and find a bakery to get croissants. I lost all pairs of my shoes in Laos and literally only have a pair of flip flops, we are going on a trek today and didn't think it was appropriate so went to go and find some trainers but didn't get any anywhere! The receptionist made me put on the most hideous blue rubber shoes I have ever seen! Seriously I made Michael cut out my feet in all the pictu...

Wake up on the bus to Sapa! Got there at 6am, had a couple more stops then get off the bus at 7.30. As usual as soon as you get off the bus people trying to sell you hotels, guest houses, taxis and anything else surround you like moths to a flamer! Literally following you, shouting at you all selling the same stuff! We are used to it though! But seriously at this unhealthy hour I'm not the nicest of people! Collected our rucksacks from the side of the road, no...