Day 38: Hanoi, Vietnam

20/12/2006
Today was te first real day of sight seeing, beginning the day early with Rosh meeting up to go to Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum*, however you spell it. It’s pretty much the body of Ho Chi Minh and you get to see the great job that Madam Tussaud did – that was the running joke [...]

Day 37: Hanoi, Vietnam

19/12/2006
Jem and I got up early and went straight to the hospital to see Manny, but the Dr told us to come back later because she still wasn’t better. Manny insisted that we did our own short tour of the city. Well, we just went to see The Huc Bridge:

We shopped around for a bit, [...]

Day 36: Hanoi, Vietnam

18/12/2006
Manny had woken up this morning still complaining of a massive headache which she had got the day before, so we decided to FORCE her to go to the hospital, and as unwilling as she was, we convinced her to go – even in her PJs. We didn’t have to wait long until she was [...]

Day 35: Luang Prabang, Laos & Hanoi, Vietnam

17/12/2006
We got up pretty late this morning from a massive farewell night in Luang Prabang, which was an AWESOME night. We nursed our hangovers with some great breaky across the road from our guesthouse (I had the BEST noodle soup, I guess Laos saved the best for last). So we sat there for an hour [...]