So you’re at home, maybe you only like to take 2 week holidays or maybe you’ve done the same as ourselves and travelled the world during the finite period of a year but you’ve never really been able to figure out what a traveller does all day. Well here, in no particular order, is […]
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Archive for December, 2005
So far so good-Loving it in Lazy Laos
Posted by lids on Sunday 18 December 2005 @ 3:17 pm
Hey Guys
Just to let u know we arrived safe and sound in Laos.Thank god.We were really worried about the bus trip cos we heard some horror stories of it taking 27hrs and the roads were meant to be dodgy.In the end though it only took 19hrs and the people on the bus mainly locals plus […]
Horror in Halong Bay
Posted by lids on Saturday 17 December 2005 @ 10:56 am
Hey Guys
As Tee and Dee have already said we had such a horrific time in hell otherwise known as Halong Bay.Really I have never seen us get so angry and pissed off as we have done in the last 4days.I just feel myself getting angry with everyone here in Vietnam,which is bad because we have […]
A NAM MARE IN HALONG BAY
Posted by Dee on Saturday 17 December 2005 @ 9:31 am
OK Tee’s post filled u in on pretty much everything so im not going to write much on it except for my first kayaking experience which was the beggining of our 3 days of hell!!
Before i start this i want to say Im very happy i have friends that care for me as much as […]
The Nam Scam
Posted by Tee on Friday 16 December 2005 @ 11:35 am
I am so looking forward to leaving Vietnam for Laos. We’ve had such stress over the last few days we’re all exhausted. We left Hanoi for the Unesco heritage site of Halong Bay on Tuesday expecting a nice relaxing 3 days. What we got was a Gestapo trained guide called Nam and piles of problems […]
Read more... »Beware of buses in Vietnam
Posted by Tee on Monday 12 December 2005 @ 12:07 pm
Some people are just so weird. On our longest journey from Hue to Hanoi the bus was packed. I was sitting in the corner back row for the leg space minding my own business when these 2 Vietnamese came down to fill the inner seats. Well when the lights went out the real fun started. […]
Read more... »XMAS IN LUANG PRABANG LAOS
Posted by Dee on Monday 12 December 2005 @ 11:42 am
Hey just letting u all know where we will be for Christmas
LUANG PRABANG, LAOS
PLANS
we are hopefully getting there on the 21st of Dec to get settled and make some friends, we have posted on the lonely planet website to get a party going so with a bit of luck we’ll get a xmas possy ready […]