Yesterday evening we jumped on the 15 hour sleeper bus from Hanoi to Hue. The bus was fantastic, really comfy big seats with loads of space. The problem however is the roads. We spent the whole night bouncing between potholes, it was like trying to sleep on a trampoline with several people jumping around you! At points everyone even left their seats as we were thrown in to the air. For the price we paid however it's difficult to complain. We arrived in Hue at ju...

After 3 days and 2 nights on a very small strip of beach we have made it back to Hanoi. The trip was amazing! We did a 4 hour cruise of the islands, swam, kayaked, played beach volleyball, drank and generally enjoyed some fun in the sun for 3 days. We stayed in small beach huts 10m from the sea, you can see our morning view in the picture! One of the highlights was that the area has bio luminous plankton, so when you swim at night it disturbs it and then glows so...

Vietnam is insane! There is other way to put it. Our flight from Laos took just over 45 minutes to get to Hanoi and then it was an hour in a very packed mini bus into the city. The traffic is just crazy and we learnt today there are 8 million people in Hanoi and just over 4.5 million motorbikes/scooters. No one obeys traffic lights, cares which side of the road they are on, weather they are on the pavement or not or weather it's a 1 way road. It's just simply c...