Thursday : overcast - morning rain Well it was a pretty good sleep on the train, no snorting, coughing or someone getting up every half an hour to go to the toilet. The mattress was rock hard, but nothing like Fansipan's. Finally we had a good rest on public transport. Well Kim cheated, she took a sleeping pill. It must of played with her sense of smell too, because there were people smoking out in the corridor a lot, and the smoke filled our room every time th...

Wednesday : sunny Well we had a good bed, good sleep nice bathroom, and AC. Kim still was in a bit of pain and couldn't stray to far from the toot though. After breaky we went to find a chemist and train tickets to get out of this warm breezeless place. Had an interesting experience once we found the chemist. The lady couldn't speak English and Kim was writing the drug names down, for her to read. She didn't have any antibiotics for a bladder infection. So Kim ...

Tuesday : overcast Well nothing beats a 12hr sleep, I strangely enough had no pains, Kim had tight thighs that gave her a bit of grief throughout the day but that's it. We didn't do much at all today, we checked out of our hotel than had breakfast in a restaurant and stayed there for most of the day, having different kinds of drinks. We went for a walk in the afternoon for an hour, then had some dinner before our overnight bus trip to Hanoi. We got scooters ...

Monday : sunny than overcast Wow another sleepless night, great for when your climbing mountains. The timber bed had no mattress and yes it was hard. I was changing position every 20min, to rotate the pain, and so was everyone else that shared our bed. The bed shook whenever someone changed positions, so I woke up a lot. There were 6 people sharing our side, 2 Spanish couples, and 14 Vietnamese sharing the other bed on the other side of the cabin. Sharing a room...

Sunday : overcast Well today was the day for the big walk. We checked out of our room, put our bags into the hotels and had some good old bacon and eggs, Thoroughly enjoyed them too. We were suppose to be picked up at 8:30 but it was more like 9:30. Something happened with the transportation, doesn't matter it came in the end and we were off. There were a lot of big waterfalls on the 10km drive to the starting point, we rose up to 1700m by van, then we were ...