We booked a 2 day 1 night cruise with Kevin at our hostel. The cruise was to go the Ha Long Bay, about 3 hours away from Ha Noi. Our minibus picked us up @ 8am and we were on our way. The roads in Vietnam are so bad, A journey that should take 1 1/12 takes double the amount, not ideal but what can you do?! Once arriving at the port/harbour we didn't have to wait long and we were soon on our little mini boat to take us out to our bigger boat! We HAD to wear li...

We had a day of museums ahead of us, This was more James's idea than it was mine as they are all war related museums. I have no idea what happened in the Vietnam war so it kind of just goes over my head. But first things first, I really needed to get my nails done. I trip advised a place that look really nice, it took us about 20 minutes to walk there. Got in, and they said they didn't do nails, brilliant! I was tired from the walk and also very sad I could...

Our first day in Ha Noi - We got up abit late today but once up we headed straight for some food. We started heading towards the lake and found a little Mexican place so stopped and had there lunch time meal deal, bargain. Kara had Fajitas & James had an Australian Steak. After replenishing ourselves we had a walk to the lake which was bigger than I expected for the middle of a city. We then just so happened to stumble across a M.A.C shop so I had to go i...

Today we had to check out of our room by 11, so we had quite a chilled morning, got our bags packed up and left them in the lobby of our hotel. Our flight wasn't until 8pm so we had plenty of time to kill. First on the list was to get our boarding passes and Visa approval letter printed off. We found a little tour shop which offered printing so headed straight in. It was 2000 kip (15p) per page. We had like 20 pages to print off ha ha, Visa approval letter, bo...