Vacation update!

After traveling now for 15 days, I figured it was about time to update you on some of the things we have done! Unfortunately, as we speak, I cannot upload pics, because our bus to Mui Ne is arriving any second.. We are now in Saigon, a hectic, chaotic and dirty city that differs a lot to other cities we have seen so far. We are coming back here in five days or so, and today was not a pitstop we necessarily wanted to make, but were forced to when it turned out that the bus wasn`t actually leaving at two pm, but at eight pm instead.. Our flight was already booked so we would be in Saigon at half past ten..

Anyway! We began our journey traveling from Hong Kong to Guanzhou first, where our train for Nanning would depart from. Then we went to Pingxiang from there after ten hours onboard, crossed the border to Vietnam at friendship pass and took a local train from Dong Dang to Hanoi which took us seven hours. All in all we traveled for one and a half day and were exhausted when we got to our hostel! The last train ride was worth it though, it was a semi cargo and passenger train and we got a close first encounter with the locals.

After some days in beautiful Hanoi we went to Halong Bay to enjoy a nice island all to ourself (and the rest of our party of twelve). Oh, bus outside, have to go!