We all got up bright and early this morning raring to go to Halong bay only to spend the next half hour trying to figure out where we were meant to be. The language thing makes it a little bit hard to organize anything. We spent half hour sorting out what we were supposed to be doing. Halong bay has been postponed until tomorrow and we got to do the Hanoi city tour today. The city tour was good to see, but I think we are all fairly much over temples and museu...

Another sleep in was on the agenda for today I think the heat and humidity here is wearing us out. It was a slow morning with a late breaky, swim and Karina and myself went for a walk to have a look at the perfurme river and the streets around our hotel. We are starting to get sick of all the people annoying you as you walk around. For almost the whole walk along the river Karina and I were practically escorted by ladies putting their argument in for us to get...

Getting up early to pack up and check out was a little rough. By 8 o'clock we were on our way ready to struggle up marble mountain. There are 5 Marble Moutains each representing natural elements (fire, water, earth, metal and wodd. Today we walked up Thuy Son (water) consisting of 300 very uneven marble steps. This proved to be a little challenging. We stopped at various at sights along the way; Tam Thai Tu Pagoda, Vong Giang Dai, Huyen Kong Cave and Xa Loi p...

Today each of the graduates have strongly demonstrated effective shopping ability, however it should be noted that this has been slightly let down by the apparent lack of any applicable negotiation skills resulting in extensive budget blow-outs. The morning started with another sleep in, full buffet breakfast and a swim in the pool. From here we began roaming the streets checking out the local markets. Throughout the day we managed a few fittings of our tail...

It was a slow start today with a bit of a sleep in and breaky at the hotel. Breakfast was the same a the last few days with a very wide range of different breakfast foods; noodles, pasta, fish, chicken eggd pastries, fruit and awesome coffee custurd things. Our flight to Da Naung was delayed and I decided to start summing up the conference proceedings during any down time like flights and airport time. We changed flights at last minuite holding up the plane a...