After a crazy couple of days we are back in Vietnam the Old Quarter, Hanoi. Friday we caught the VIP bus from Luang Prabang to Van Vieng which was evidently a 5 hour trip but somehow turned into a very long and drawn out 7 hours through hill tribe territory. This bus had the worst toilet I have had the displeasure of using and when we stopped for lunch there was a squat toilet i.e. basically a hole in the ground. Delightful! Anyway, made it in one piece and a...

Well, what can I say! After an 8 hour flight from Melbourne to HCMC then a 2 hour internal flight from there to Hanoi I'm stoked to say I've made it to my hotel in the Old Quarter in one piece. All good on my own, only bit was the transiting from the international airport to the domestic airport at HCMC which was quite unorganised - Vietnam Airlines provided a minibus but there seemed to be alot of confusion re bags / boarding passes etc. Nothing could have pre...