1. They freaking LOVE karaoke Seriously. Particularly in the north, you see karaoke bars EVERYWHERE. Most Halong Bay cruises seem to have it – all except our one, it seems! Booo. However, word has it that the bars are often dens for all sorts of unlawful activity… 2. There are tiny lizards everywhere. And chickens. …
Our time in Vietnam was very much split into thirds – a week in northern Vietnam, a week in central Vietnam, and now a week in southern Vietnam. From Hoi An, we headed down to Nha Trang for some beach time, before getting back to city life and soaking up Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). …
We reached Central Vietnam, hot and sweaty. The blog introduction you really needed, of course. It’s true though, because we’d arrived on the train from rainy Hanoi and found ourselves landed in the full 35 degrees of our first destination in central Vietnam: Hué. “It’s only 2km to our hotel,” I announced to Ash, leading …
If Hanoi isn’t one of the best places we visit on this trip, then this whole adventure is going to turn out even better than I expected. Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is chaotic as it is charming, exciting as it is enchanting, and wild as it is wonderful. It was like nothing I’d ever …
We only spent a week in Hong Kong (which I guess is a fair amount of time for a single city) but in that time I made quite a few observations about the city. This was our first Asia experience too, but it was very different to most of what we’d come to find in …
A week over already – and what a week it’s been, soaking up culture in Hong Kong and dipping our feet into Asia for the first time. We flew into Hong Kong late on Sunday night. Our flight was delayed, we were exhausted from the day in Saigon, and by the time we got to …
And it’s only been a few hours!! In that time, despite it being 34 degrees while we’re stuck in trousers (quite literally… stuck… eww) and us being totally knackered from a 12 hour flight which landed at what felt like midnight to us, we have mastered the art of crossing the street and also learned …
