Today mel informed me that her pal ed was coming to Vietnam as he has been travelling for a while, so we showered and met up with him in the hostel. He seemed like a lovely guy and was telling me where to go on my travels. I think he fancies Melissa a bit if I'm honest but he's stuck in the friend zone. Raging. We headed to a little western coffee place called jomba where I had a green tea. Melissa was being sick for the first hour which was pretty unfortunate, b...

We woke up in our hotel room around 7am and quickly got ready. I had such a nice sleep in my big double bed and the room was nice and air conditioned. We picked up some snacks for the long bus ride into Vietnam and got on the bus. It was strangely nice. We had so much room and there was probably only about twenty people crossing the border. Which explains why we all were given breakfast and a bottle of water when we got on! We drove for about four hours then it w...

Today we woke up and were excited as it was the beginning of our journey into Vietnam! I have loved china, even though it is a tad mental. Mel and I packed up and had breakfast at carpe diem again. We then hopped on a taxi to the bus station. The initial plan was to get the bus to nanning, then try and get the connecting bus that night to Vietnam. My visa doesn't actually start until the 15th so we had to make sure that we arrive at the right time. The bus was re...

Today was going to be a great day and we all knew it! Katie, Mel and I decided we wanted to go drifting or white water rafting. After breakfast we headed down to reception to ask Jesse if she could get us a deal. Luckily we got the price down slightly and ended up with three people for 600 yuan, which worked out about 20 pounds each. Not too bad, back home you would be paying through the roof! We headed down to the bus station and prepared ourselves for the bumpi...

We woke up this morning and Mel, Katie and I had epic plans to go kayaking! Exciting! We got our swimming stuff on and were about to leave the door when suddenly the hostel worker shouted 'you check out now!?!'. I was really confused as yesterday we booked on until Wednesday. She kept proclaiming that no one spoke to her, which was blatant lies as I did myself. After talking to the manager and after very poor customer service, we packed up our stuff and headed ar...