Arrived in hue early doors and booked a room at hue backpackers. I had museli, fruit and yogurt for breakfast, sososo good, missed that stuff. After a little chill time Emma and I went exploring, we went to the imperial city where the nygenen dynasty used to live before it was all destroyed in the American war. The area has actually been destroyed in 3 different wars which is awful. The Vietnamese are currently doing a lot of restoration work on the site to recre...

Today we went on a tour to see the caves in phong nha. First we went up in to the mountains and saw a temple which was created in honour of those who died creating the ho chi min trail, their average age was 20. Then we went to paradise cave, which was absolutely beautiful. All the limestone in the caves looks like it can't have been made by nature alone, someone must have carved them intricately. The walk up was a steep one, but I was rather impressed with the...

So after an amazing easter weekend in Halong bay doing castaway on our own private island, beers flowing, tubing and sailing around the 3000 beautiful islands, having a chunk of my finger bitten off, having no electricity, seeing a dead dolphin, dancing all night, meeting some incredible people, having a boat crash and drinking neat vodka and taking over the speaker system on a bus to have a party just because we can, we have a 10 hour bus journey to phong nha. I...