Another earlier-than-scheduled departure, on our Fokker jet which I think was THE smoothest flight I've ever had ever ever! We flew into Hanoi in an hour (instead of a 32 hour bus trip) and were hit once again with the in-your-face stick, but much harder than Thailand! We were too scared to cross the road. Scooters flew from all directions, hooters blaring... We scored a posh hotel and basically didn't want to leave it, but we had to, to go and get food and also organise our next few days in Vietnam.
We took an organised day tour to Halong Bay (once again we were the only 3 on the bus!)
and spent the day cruising around the bay with 3000 limestone karst islands. We also checked out a couple of caves, had authentic Vietnamese lunch, and met an extremely interesting family from the UK who had been traveling around SE Asia for 4 months (children were 12, 10, 8).That night we sleeper-trained it in style to Hue. We took a bottle of vodka to help put us to sleep but it was so comfy that after about 20 mins of moving we all passed out and slept like babies till the morning! We did one bad thing though.
We lost Phalang somewhere between the sleeper train and our hotel. We think we were punished because 2 days later in Hoi An we had the worst day ever ever. Story coming later...We bartered our way at the river and scored a cheap trip to some of the tombs and pagodas (yawn) even though it kept getting more and more expensive with all the add-ons, like having to buy beers for our motorbike drivers!
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