Headed back to Hanoi today as the bike was due back. It was so cold and miserable going back that I cried on the way back to Hanoi and had to stop at the side of the highway and move around and warm up and wrap in all the sarongs I could find in the bag to keep warm.

Then we popped into a travel agency to organize flights to Laos. We asked them what temperature it was in Sapa, our supposed next stop and when we were told 4’C we did not need to discuss it any longer, we were definitely going straight to Laos then, thank you very much.