goodbye laos hello hanoi

massive massive massive bus trip yesterday, 12 hrs yuck
in hanoi now, the most horn happy city in the world i swear. apparently they are just letting everyone know they are there... yeah i bet
its a bit cooler than everywhere else which is nice, all food so far as been wayyyyyyy better than laos our last night dinner in laos at border town lak sao was the worst meal iv ever had i think. wouldnt even feed it to the dog... conor one of the guys in my group ordered beef, it was more like jerkey you couldnt even chew it. so gross. taught one of our guides to say gross, best thing she says it with an aussie accent. very proud of myself haha :)
since Luang prabang we went to vang vieng, bout a 7 hr drive through mountains and hills, wouldnt recommend if you get car sick, really windy and hilly. vang vieng is the strangest town, no where near as pretty as luang prabang, but still cool. most of the restaurants are set up like the movies, all the tables have couches for chairs and face tv's, best bit is they ALL show re-runs of friends. cept for one that was family guy woo hoo. its a backpacker town, and next to the town is an island in the middle of the river, which has the most rickety bamboo bridges crossing to it, but the whole island has outside bars with djs and fires really cool. we went to one called 'the bucket bar' probably not a good idea haha our guide got sooo drunk had to carry her home haha. found out not only does she have a french man that she had already told us about, also has an english man hhahahah laughed so much. next day we went tubing so much fun i think the people that stay in vang vieng (some stay for months) just do this everyday. you get a tube, get a tuk tuk up to the top of the river then float down (it runs fast with rapids) so good. there are bars all the way along too, with massive flying foxes and swings that you drop into the water from. i was to pussy to do it though haha so high! got a good video of one of the girls on the swing though. will put pics up on facebook of tubing when i can find a fast internet connection. best day. got burnt though. next day drove to lak sao, another 4 hrs. worst town the restaurant we went to (with the crap food) is the only restaurant in the town, hence the name "only one restaurant" haha.

meet my new group 2moro, pretty excited. last night with my current group seeing water puppets its meant to be cool. new viet number +84947431866