We left Bagan on Xmas eve to catch a boat to take us up river to Mandalay. The journey to Mandalay was going to take a day and half to reach, so that meant that most of Xmas day was to be on the river. The day didn't start off well as Linda, our tour guide, had come off a moped the night before and had fallen on her face. It wasn't a good sight and she had also broken one of her front teeth, she had good teeth too, which is more than I can say about most of the ...

It was an early rise to get to Bagan, we left the hotel at 4:30 to catch our flight to Bagan with Yangon "you know your safe with us" airways. The plane was tiny and was propelled by propellors, which apart from when I did a sky dive that is the only time I've been in plane with propellors. They obviously recognised Xmas and had hung a bauble from each of windows for decorations. The flight was short and only took and hour and twenty minutes and we had to fly to ...

I didn't think I would come back to SE Asia so soon after my last trip to Cambodia and Vietnam in the spring time, but I saw sense. I only had a few hours sleep the night before, not through being excited, but because iTunes was doing my head in and it was syncing correctly with my iPod so I stayed up trying to sort it out. I had a moment of a a scattiness when I arrived at the airport and decided that I should get off at terminal 3 as I recall that was the cor...

We left Hanoi at 8am to catch a private bus to Halong city which was approximately 4 hours drive away. Some people were saying that they had been awoken at 2pm by a fire alarm in the hotel that had been set of by 20 plus Vietnamese people leaving early, I didn't hear it and being on the 5th floor wouldn't have helped if it was genuine. The traffic in hanoi is intense I've never seen anything like it, mopeds are everywhere, when the road ahead was too busy they j...

Part 1 We left Hue around 5pm Wednesday by sleep train to Hanoi. the train was very similar to the first train we caught from Ho Chi Minh to Nah Trang. I managed to grab the bottom bunk again which i was happy about, i just cant get on the top bunks on these sleeper trains. Some of us went to the dining cart for a few beers and i noticed that it had the same pine decor the first train had. Some of the guys wanted to order food from the train but i didn't, i took...