Brief Overview

I think I'm grounded ^^^^
hahahaha!!!!
Isabella is sooo photogenic!
hehe just kidding... shes not!
Ok, ok, seriously.
This post is by the horrible harriet (if you hadn't already noticed)
hope you enjoy!

So, this post is to sort out any confusion which translates literally into "descending dragon" 'ha' meaning descending and 'long' meaning Dragon, like our monkey tourguide that I told you about, oh and thom called in case you were wondering... she lost her retina.

Now, I have to appologise most sincerely as a lot of you will be quite confused with our posts because we are jumping from past & present to future simultaneously.

I'll just give you a brief run-down on our whole trip:

We arrived in Hanoi, then we travelled to Sapa by bus, then caught the train back to Hanoi, we waited in the gutter in the dark for Mr Hai (our evil travel agent) to come to work, then we caught a tour bus to Ha long bay where we embarked on a boating/kayaking quest overnight in a junk (boat for those of you with a vocabulary as developing as mine), once fulfilled we caught the same bus back to Hanoi agaion while in three seconds Mr Hai went over our itinery which said things like "stay overnight at hotel in Siem Riep" *clears throat* Which one and where?!!!

And that's not mentioning all the extra money we had to pay for our 'own' transport like Taxi's and so on.

We rushed to the airport with extra baggage but no extra charge "yay!" then found out that our plane to Hue' was delayed.

I was pissed of, Isabelle didn't seem to be affected by it (she bought her belgium chocolate, she was satisfied) then caught the plane (when it Finally arrived) and they gave us a small container of water and a hamburger with a sprig of weed-like lettuce on it and 3 slices of salami... Isabella and I being half-veggo were disgusted, well 'I' was, she just pulled the salami off hers and ate it anyway.

I, on the other hand, took one bite and spat the horrid thing out... (p.s 'WHO' is the complaining goat? Thankyou very much!)

We Arivved in Hue and were picked up at night by a (as Isabella would inappropriately call it) 'speedy-gonzales' Taxi Driver. When we got to our hotel I let out a sigh of relief because the hotel brought us glasses of warm passionfruit juice and there was a sign with isabella's name saying 'welcome' and there was a christmas tree and whatnot.

After Hue' we got a taxi to Danang then a train to Nha Trang where I got my first marriage proposal. We went to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) by bus, arriving, rather inconveniently, on New Years Eve!

After a hectic 2 nights in Saigon in our cramped little hotel room, we travelled on three different buses to chau doc (Close to the Cambodian Border) then we caught a fast boat (it was isabellas birthday by the way) to cambodia.

Arriving in phnom Penh, still on Isabella's birthday, we stayed two nights at the New York Hotel (More about 'that one' later). Another fast boat brought us from phnom Phenh up the mighty Mekong Delta (which travels through Vietnam, cambodia and Laos) to bring us here to Siem Riep (more about THAT later too!)

We leave in the morning to say 'ciao ciao Cambodia and xin ciao Laos'.

So we must go and try to found our new aqaintances (the two Germans from Berlin) and see if they want to get a drink :)

More about our trip later!

xXx Ciao