Our night-time bus journey to Hue should have been an uneventful trip, allowing me to sleep right through the night. At about 1am, we stopped, I believed at first for a toilet break. Vic came back on to the bus to tell me to come and see outside, and bring my camera. The truck in front of us had jack-knifed and was lying on its side taking up most of the road. Even though it was 1am, traffic was building up, since this was one of the only main coastal roads runni...

And I thought Bangkok was crazy! On leaving the airport at around 7pm, after a delay caused by our mini bus driver to pick up as many passengers as we could, we set off in the mayhem that was the Hanoi traffic. I knew from Thailand and Laos that drivers beep their horn when overtaking, but in Vietnam it's ridiculous!The minibus dropped us off in Hanoi's Old Quarter and we were immediately mobbed by a group of kids trying to sell us a room in their guest h...

On arriving in Vientiane, the first thing we did was get some food, I was shattered! We found out that Vientiane was hosting the National Boat Race, so there were loads of market stalls and fairground rides to see. Vic and I bought a really tasty sandwich from a stall, it had an ingredient which looked like cotton, but later found out to be really thinly shredded pork, really good!We had a lazy day on Saturday, went on the internet and went for a massage. It was ...

I'm now in Vientiane and will be here for a few days, as the earliest we can get our Visas for Vietnam is Monday. We have a flight booked to Hanoi for late Monday, the alternative being a 24+ hour bus journey.Luang Prabang was cool, in the evening we got a burger by the night market, chatted to some friends, and went to a decent bar called the Lao Lao Gardens. We got a good deal on some whisky and coke, which went down rather easily. This not sufficient, we w...

I've arrived in Luang Prabang after the two day slow-boat journey from the Thai / Lao border. It wasn't too bad as it was broken up by an overnight stop in Pakbeng, much card playing (learned to play Taki with some Israeli girls) and getting to know some new people. You meet people from all across the globe, including one guy from the Wirral who used to work at Vauxhalls and Airbus! He's even drank in the Woodlands and Old Wirral Hundred!The last...