I enjoyed my visit to Dong Hoi. Everything went to plan, unlike my visit to Ninh Binh and I had two days or riding a moped around the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. I arrived in Dong Hoi at about 05:30 in the morning, having been thrown around comprehensively by the night bus. I left […]

I got to Ninh Binh by following roughly the same route I had taken to Ha Giang. This involved getting a bus from Meo Vac, which dropped me off in Ha Giang. From there I got another bus to Tuyen Quang, where I was unexpectedly dropped-off and had to get another, early morning bus to […]

The journey to Ha Giang was a long one. After getting back to Hanoi from Cat Ba, we had to traverse the city in an expensive taxi to the northern-most bus station, Gia Lam, to get a bus to Tuyen Quang. This was the point at which we had to change to another bus, to […]

I got to Cat Ba by taking a bus from the Luong Yen bus station in Hanoi. The ticket I bought was actually for the journey to Cat Ba, not just a single bus. The journey consisted of a big bus to Haiphong, a small bus to the ferry terminal, a boat and then another […]