Vietnam '24
Southeast Asian Odyssey '24 - the finale
All good things must come to an end, but some ends are better than others. We’re spending our last fortnight or so in Vietnam, having missed the north last year on account of February’s cold. So, here’s to Hanoi and all parts north… (Also available without the blather, at anassandadonkey.com.)
Day four dawned much better than day three. No mortar attack. Instead, a nice breakfast of fried egg and pancakes with banana and honey, then back on the road for the return to Ha Giang...
The bus for Cat Ba isn’t till seven this evening, so we decided to take a little trek up to the viewpoint above Ha Giang. And it did prove quite a trek – up and up and up...
Virle had a rougher night of it than me, sleeping fitfully on the bus, which proved to be a fairly elderly sleeper, lacking basic amenities like curtains to keep out the LED displays...
And now we look like a pair of tomatoes.
We’d forgotten how long it’s been since we did any serious sunnery. We’ve been mostly doing things, as against soaking up...
Well that was full on.
We’d decided to hire a bike and head off to the national park, and go for a bit of a trek.
First stop was ‘Hospital cave’, which we’d...
Not the most promising start, as we opened the curtains to the first pouring rain we’ve seen in many a week. Oo-er. But the forecasts were promising all day sunshine! But the...