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know i have started many entries by saying i have just had the worse journey ever!!!....but I HAVE!
All started when we decided to pay a little extra for a sleeper train...and got a train with a bundle of vietnamise people and their 500 kids. the cabin was a little rough with chewing gum stuck too close to where my head was laying and the toilets were the worse i have ever come across..there is a photo on this journal of jen which i believe says it all! so have a look! pictures speak a thousand words!! The train took a nice 18 hours and we arrived in Hanoi!
We then got taken to the bus station by quite a scary driver who wouldnt let us get our bags out of the boot until we paid the extaution rate! we protested that he took us to the wrong place so should take some money off...this protest lasted about 30 secnds until we realised he may drive off with our bags! Dam cabbies!
From Hanoi (where we met quite a few rude people may i add) we got a bus to Halong Bay (a rather amusing 4 hour ride ...when jens attention span reached its maximum and she tried to get the whole bus of vietnamise people to sing the 'birdie song'!!funny!) ...when they said Halong Bay we thought they actually meant it!...oh no! they dumped us at the edge of the city on a dual carrage way! literally dumped us! a little frightened we managed to get a cab... who again stung us for money and took us to a hotel in the skanky part of the bay (which for some reason we did pick from the loney planet book). haha we got a room at this family run smelly hotel...sitting for a min on the beds we suddenly wondered what the hell we were doing and marched down the stairs and announced to non speaking vietnamise that we werent staying anymore!
After about half hour of walking for a cab in this quite creepy area we again picked up the cabbie with the smallest brain! we showed him in the book where we wanted to go and he took us to the Plaza!!! as if!!! haha through talking to the Bell boy there we managed to explain that we were poor and needed a cheap hotel!! yay!! about 27 hours later we were booked into a nice hotel room in Halong bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rnrnrnrnrnrnrn
Halong Bay is boring and we cant wait to get on the boat trip tomorrow...it goes overnight and around the bay.
xx
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