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Hi!!!
weve been travelling about loads lately and it's been amazing!!!!
Sapa: was incredible!!! We walked a 14km hike the first day and saw the sights in the mountains and met some of the minority tribes. Then we stayed at a homestay in a little village with a local family! There was only us and a German guy called Raymond (and his gay Vietnamese guide) as well as some other Vietnamese ppl, mainly from Hanoi. We were right on the river and it was beautiful!! Also there were puppies, which made us both very happy, but apparantly they were bred for eating...nice!! We spentthe evening drinking 'happy water' (which is HORRIBLE rice wine crap but gets u fairly 'happy') and singing kareo-KAY!! it was awesum!! I woke up and some1 had decided they would sleep next to me and put there arms and legs on my bed which was very weird indeed!! Oh well!! The next day we walked about 4km to a massive waterfall and had lunch in a little shack!
Then we came back to Hanoi on the night train, arriving at 4am. Then we woke up and left straight for Ha Long Bay @ 8am!! it was a bit rushed but we met 3 guys at our hostel who were doing it so we thought it would be good to do the same trip as people we knew! They were awesum and we also met Dave and Julez out on the boat who we are now in Cat Ba with!! Anyways...
Ha Long Bay: is one of the most spectacular places I have ever been!! You really can't describe it! We went kayaking in one of the bays and then went swimming off the boat and the sea was sooooooo hot!! The scenery is gorgeous and the boat was cute and we all played card games and did yet more kareo-KAY!! it was ace!! And then...
Monkey Island: which sounds stupid but was really really not!! We had ourown private beach (between about 15 of us) and the most amazing views and cute little wooden cabins on the sea front!! There were ALOT of bugs and the coast line was a bit littered in places but you can kinda ignore the bad bits kuz its all so unreal!! We climbed over the mountain to another little beach to see the monkeys, and Dan (a guy we met who was VERY weirdly from Bicknoller - 7miles from Nether Stowey!! And went to Richard Huish with me and saw me play in Soundhogg!?!) got bitten by a monkey!! Apparantly they're violent!! oh dear!!
So yeh, I got up at 5am to see the sunrise this morning and go swimming b4 we had 2 leave the island at 8am. Now we are on Cat Ba and it is very very hot!! I don't think we've ever sweated this much, ever!! We'll probably be here untill 2moro then back to Hanoi - then only 4 days left!! = ( I'll be so sad to leave Vietnam. It's been incredible and we've done some amazing stuff!!
Don't know what we're doing today, possibly hiring a boat or motorbike or something!? who knows!!
Hope you're all doing ok!! Can't wait to see you all!!
Lots of love
Elle and Sarah
xxxx
p.s pictures to follow maybe soon, maybe not... we have ALOT!! = ) x
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