There is no easy way to get from Hanoi to Luang Prabang. The bus ride takes around 24 hours, tickets might be oversold so one can end up sitting on the corridor for 24 hours. Therefore we decided to take a flight with Lao Airlines. The ticket cost was 3.335.000 Dong per person which is […]
ATMs are widely available in Vietnam. The maximum amount you can withdraw in 99% of the ATMs is 2.000.000 Dong and there is a commission when you withdraw money. The commission is usually 20.000 or 30.000 Dong / withdrawal. Money exchange is done in every bank BUT there is a catch banks will only exchange […]
Once we got to Hanoi the first thing we were trying to do is to get to Ha Long Bay. There are many tours going some of them for 2 days ( staying 1 night on the boat ) three days ( 1 night on the boat and one night in a hotel ). We […]
Love it or hate it. As simple as that 🙂 When we arrived to Hanoi we didn’t like it at all and at the end of our stay We loved it 🙂 The old town as the name might suggests is very compact, dirty and the traffic is even more chaotic than anywhere else in […]
We were going to see a couple of cities on the way and initially wanted to go all the way by train but due to the weather conditions we decided to pay a higher price and take the plane directly to Hanoi. We were delayed one day because landslides took out the road to the […]