Hanoi and Sapa

Its Christmas Day and I am going for a large buffet at a hotel like the Hilton. It is going to be a little expensive but Christmas only comes once a year and I have a craving for turkey. And its my first Christmas away from home.

To add on to the last entry. I decided to go to Sapa first, spend Christmas in Hanoi, then to Halong Bay after Christmas.

At the early hour of 6:30 my night bus arrived to the outskirts of the massive city, Hanoi. The only way to get to the backpackers/tourist area was agree to see the hotel that the bus company wanted to bring us too. It was a hotel that was above my budget... but I decided to just say I wanted to stay and then when we arrived I just walked the other way. I only wanted a cheap dorm bed so I could sleep for a few more hours, I was leaving that evening on a night train to Sapa. For 3$ I got to sleep until 1pm and have a hot hot shower. It wasn't too bad. In the afternoon when I was checking my email, Jazz (my Canadian travel chick from Home) was online and happened to be in the same city, just down the street. I dropped by and had dinner with 2 familiar faces and finished the evening off with 15cent beers. Draft beer on the street is only 2000Dong.

The night train to Sapa wasn't the nicest train I have seen but I did get a hell of a lot more sleep than I did on the night bus on the previous evening. I was a happier person. Its funny I really thought the train went all the way to the mountainous town of Sapa, but in reality it only took us to the base of the mountains, so at 5:30am me and 12 other sleepy travellers were shovelled on to a tiny tiny mini bus for another hour.

Sapa was cold, but dude it was beautiful. It was unreal. They were mountain slopes with ruice fields, local tradition people selluing ur goods and really I just can't describe it.

Maybe later

Too lazy. I just spend ovwer 24 vhours getting to Koh Phangan

I am ready to relax