After a very long day of travelling, I’d hoped that we’d manage a sleep in. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case and we all woke up early. We were also on central European time which was an hour later than London, until the next day when summer time started and it would be…
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Heavenly Halong Bay; Swimming, Stone faces and Silence
Halong Bay is one of the most beautiful and sort after tourist destinations in Vietnam, the 180km bumpy drive from Hanoi is not. As our bus bounced along the high way reaching the astronomic sped of 60km per hour, I wondered what we had signed up for. I hadn’t realised we were going to be…
Mighty Mekong; Rafts, Rain and Rice Paper
Ominous dark clouds loomed down at us as we walked through the wet blanket air of Ho Chi Minh city. We were on our way to the Mighty Mekong River, the twelfth longest river in the world. We drove through the chaotic streets of Saigon, our transfer van bouncing on the potholes and swerving to…
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