ok so i am going to pre-warn everybody that this is going to be a long entry as i havnt written for quite a while so if you get bored easily you better stop reading now, and for those who take on the challenge of making it to the end, i suggest that you are sitting on a very comfortable chair!!!! so last time you heard from me we were stuck indoors because of the torrential rain on the coast of cambodia. since then the sun decided that he likes his hat and has ...

well we hav left vietnam behind and it looks like we have left the sunshine behind too!!!! we are currently in the middle of torrential rain that hasnt stopped for 4 days and there is thunder and lightning all day and night!! we are hoping that it is the remnants of the typhoon that has hit china and that this isnt the expected weather for the rest of our trip :o( we have heard from some friends that it is also raining in thailand so it is more than possible th...

so this is it - my last journal entry from Vietnam!! the last 3 weeks have gone so quickly and i have done so much in such a short amount of time that i think once we get to cambodia we wont know what to do with ourselves!! i wrote a journal entry a couple of days ago and updated you on our adventures in the town of Hoi An but the computer crashed and lost my entry so you guys never got to read it. as we have now reached Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon as the old ...

we are now almost half way down the east coast of Vietnam and are also half way through our organised tour! i acant believe how quickly it is going!! we went back to Hanoi for a few days after being in the northern town of Sapa and last night we said farewell to Hanoi for the last time as we got on an overnight train to Hue (pronounced hoi). we are experiencing beautiful sunshine for the firs real time on thid\s trip through Vietnam as in the North when it was...

we have been travelling around a lot in the north of Vietnam and have seen so much in just 5 days. we are currently in Sapa in the north of Vietnam, near to the Chinese border and we are doing a lot of treking!! we went to Halong Bay on Tuesday and had a seafood lunch on a private boat after having swum in the sea surrounded by limestone mountains!! beautiful!! we came to Sapa very early this morning after traveling on a sleeper train from Hanoi so im very kn...