Hi from Hoi An

Day 6 We have arrived in Hoi A today, another place we had supposed to visit in 2022 but a typhoon but a stop to that. Getting here was a bit more of a challenge than it should have been. We’d pre booked tickets on a train from Hue to Da Nang, arrived at the […]

Onto the Imperial City of Hue

Day 4 We travelled between Hanoi and Hue by airplane rather than our original method of overnight sleeper train – last time we got 9 hours into this uncomfortable journey before evacuating off because of a typhoon further down the line! Read about it here This time, and partly because of time constraints and itinerary- […]

24 hours in Hanoi, Vietnam

Day 3 – Hanoi We pulled into Hanoi’s train station at 05:40 am and grabbed a ‘Grab’ cab to take us to our hotel in the Old quarter. Thank goodness, our hotel was able to offer us an early check in at less than £20 and so by 6.15 am we were back in an […]

Sa Pa, Vietnam

Day 1 in SaPa We arrived in Vietnam on schedule after a smooth and comfortable flight with Vietnam Airways on their non stop London to Hanoi route. We were met by our driver, booked through Viator and soon were on our way- a 4-5 hour car journey North into the hills, to our base of […]