Saturday, December 15, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
In Singapore
Hello
We were a little sad to leave Vietnam on Saturday and we are finding Singapore quite a contrast. Halong Bay was spectacular. We were on a private boat with six people looking after us (your money goes a very long way in Vietnam). We paddled through limestone caves into lagoons and saw monkeys. It was all a bit surreal.
When we arrived back in Hanoi we had a day and a half to ourselves and visited the Ho Chi Minh museum (even more surreal) and the Vietnamese History Museum, as well as walking the streets of the old quarter and finding little local restaurants to eat in. Shane even got a hair cut from some guy doing them on the side of the road, and it's not too bad for a $3 job.
Since arriving in Singapore, we've visited the Changi museum, the Merlion, Chinatown and we are currently sitting in Little India. We are thinking of heading to the Night Safari tonight.
Thanks for everyone's comments (which we can get again now) - it's good to hear some news from back home. Hard to believe this all comes to an end in a little over two days now.
Look forward to seeing everyone soon.
Love Megan
We were a little sad to leave Vietnam on Saturday and we are finding Singapore quite a contrast. Halong Bay was spectacular. We were on a private boat with six people looking after us (your money goes a very long way in Vietnam). We paddled through limestone caves into lagoons and saw monkeys. It was all a bit surreal.
When we arrived back in Hanoi we had a day and a half to ourselves and visited the Ho Chi Minh museum (even more surreal) and the Vietnamese History Museum, as well as walking the streets of the old quarter and finding little local restaurants to eat in. Shane even got a hair cut from some guy doing them on the side of the road, and it's not too bad for a $3 job.
Since arriving in Singapore, we've visited the Changi museum, the Merlion, Chinatown and we are currently sitting in Little India. We are thinking of heading to the Night Safari tonight.
Thanks for everyone's comments (which we can get again now) - it's good to hear some news from back home. Hard to believe this all comes to an end in a little over two days now.
Look forward to seeing everyone soon.
Love Megan
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Hanoi
Hi Again
I haven't been able to open our (or anyone elses I know) page for the last couple of days, so sorry but I don't know if anyone can read this or if any replies have been made.
We arrived in Hanoi at about 5:50 this morning getting off the overnight train from Hue. The train ride itself was ok - in compartments with 4 people. While the rest of our group took an optional day trip to Halong Bay (where Megan and I go on Tuesday) we spent the day walking around the old quarter of the city and finding different places to eat.
Yesterday was also a good day, we went to the Citadel and an Emporer's tomb in Hue, and had vegetarian lunch at a pagoda cooked by the nuns that lived there.
We've said goodbye to our bicycles now, which has turned out to be a bit sad since we had gotten used to riding everyday through the country side and we had cycled a lot more than our original itinerary said (completing about 700km).
The picture upload thing doesn't seem to be working either so I'll add some more pictures when we come back from Halong Bay.
Talk soon
Shane
I haven't been able to open our (or anyone elses I know) page for the last couple of days, so sorry but I don't know if anyone can read this or if any replies have been made.
We arrived in Hanoi at about 5:50 this morning getting off the overnight train from Hue. The train ride itself was ok - in compartments with 4 people. While the rest of our group took an optional day trip to Halong Bay (where Megan and I go on Tuesday) we spent the day walking around the old quarter of the city and finding different places to eat.
Yesterday was also a good day, we went to the Citadel and an Emporer's tomb in Hue, and had vegetarian lunch at a pagoda cooked by the nuns that lived there.
We've said goodbye to our bicycles now, which has turned out to be a bit sad since we had gotten used to riding everyday through the country side and we had cycled a lot more than our original itinerary said (completing about 700km).
The picture upload thing doesn't seem to be working either so I'll add some more pictures when we come back from Halong Bay.
Talk soon
Shane
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