And the rain came tumbling down

But fortunately not until we had finished our trek and were in the car on the way back to Hanoi!
Awoke to the sound of gibbons again - ace - but it was 4am so i went back to sleep! This time we were not in the national park but were staying in the house of a White Thai family. Sheet of foam on bamboo floor is surprisingly comfy. No fan but we had air con - we took down the bamboo screening from the window holes. Didn't make any difference though. Actually we both slept quite well. I think because we were looking on the bright side and were just grateful we were sleeping on something reasonably solid and not hanging in a dodgy hammock in Borneo!!! They were good times too though!

Still up early - ish for our trek so we could do most of it in the cool. I thought this might mean 4am but apparently 8am is cool - 34 degrees is cool!!!!! Beautiful walk over some mountains, through a bit of jungle through more clouds of butterflies and on to where we were having lunch. Martyn was glad it was dry, some of the path was quite narrow with a drop on one side and a bit of mud. He had Mount Elgon flashbacks!!! (if this means nothing to you then ask us when we are back!)
Again didn't get hot enough on walk (ha ha) so after 20 min rest we got on bike for an hours tootle around. Very nice.

Quick vietnamese lesson using childrens vocab posters for animals, vegetables, trees, fruit and insects (my pronuciation of mosquito is better than martyns) then lunch and drive back to Hanoi through thunder, lightening and rain of monsoonal proportions! Driver did very well to keep the engine going through the floods!

Have failed in attempt to do no more laundry before return home - have had to seal up clothes from last 5 days in order to be able to sleep in hotel room tonight - whiffy!! Apologies in advance to laundry service in Hong Kong but that will definately be the last lot!!!
So we leave tomorrow - will no doubt manage last Vietnam blog from the airport but no idea what will happen in Hong kong or China so we will wait and see. Even if we can't post them we'll still type them all in and then upload them later or something. Not signing off yet though - just warning that there may not be many more posts!