The REAL Kangaroo Cafe in Hanoi - Beware of the many crooks that copy us

As well as our signature Ha Long Bay & Sa Pa tours, we've got plenty of other great short tours available to places like: Mai Chau, the Perfume Pagoda, Ha Noi Day tours, Handi Craft Villages, Kenh Ga Springs etc.

We also handle train & air tickets too & can even offer some good advice on booking decent, reasonably priced, clean, local hotels.

The thumb-nails below are taken from a local Vietnamese tour magazine "The Guide" in 2006 & feature a number of our competitors tours for you to consider. As you may have guessed, their prices have gone up considerably since then !

Please note carefully not just the price but more importantly the group sizes and we find it curious to note the incredible support some of these mobs get for their so called "small group" tours from some of the guide books & internet forums. Makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes !!!

We seem to come in for some very personal criticism on one of the travel forums in particular. Some of these would be, cyber travellers (you can check the daily average number of their posts) hiding behind their anonymous accounts & browsers seem all too ready to tip a bucket on us. Poor them !

What's even more curious is that they always seem to be pushing a barrow for the same tour mob.

Please feel free to e-mail us if you require any further info & we'll send you some itineraries & other info as well. Don't forget to have a gander at our Ha Long Bay & Sa Pa tours pics too.

Lastly, if you're using your work computer please be aware that most work places don't approve of their staff surfing the net, visiting funny web sites or arranging their holidays etc during work hours.

We've had a number of people complain they didn't hear from us when in fact it was their company system deleting our e-mails because we'd sent the people tour itineraries as attachments. The various work places are understandably concerned that the attachments may be a virus or some other kind of nightmare that goes with the internet these days & delete them immediately.

When you contact us, please include an e-mail address that accepts any & all attachments such as your home or private e-mail address.

Before travelling to Viet Nam we encourage everyone to buy a copy of their favourite guide book. Years ago there was really only one choice but these days that's far from the case. We can't say enough good things about the following guide book company's ...... Rough Guide, Footprint, Lets Go, Fodor's, Globetrotter & National Geographic. Their level of compassion towards the Vietnamese people, their integrity & their commitment is truly admirable.

The photocopied versions of LP are still as cheap as, available almost everywhere, but they're not as clear as an original one & although the fake ones are still the most popular with budget travellers you should ask yourself if you really do support the whole copyright protection thing before buying a fake one.

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