Hanoi – long weekend
We were lucky enough to be able to schedule a long weekend in Hanoi before year-end. Looking back it had been 7 years since we were last in Hanoi. At…
Saigon, July 2019
We took full advantage of the Lao Women’s Union public holiday to have a long weekend down in Saigon. We arrived into Ho Chi Minh early evening, and the immigration…
Saigon, very nice to return
We headed down to Saigon for the weekend, go down Saturday, come back Monday. A short break, but we managed to pack quite a bit in without running ourselves ragged.…
World Famous in Sapa
Although Andrew had not sent out a press release advising he would be in Sapa, his fame seemed to have preceded him. In the market he was approached by a…
Sapa
We arrived in Lao Cai (a border crossing point into China) at 5:30am and needed to find a mini-bus to take us 1 hour up into the hills to…
Hot stepping our way around Hanoi
Saturday was my birthday and we had discussed no presents. We are coming back to NZ in early June and have enough stuff already to repatriate. So it was…