So really this blog is what it says on the tin, well the location name :-)! It certainly was a lazy beach! After the elephant and jungle madness in Saen Monorom we were both looking forward to a bit of chill time at what was apparently one of the the best beaches in Cambodia. It took us all day to get two 6 hour minivans, via Phnom Penh to Sihanouksville on the South coast. I have to admit I am surprised we survived the second leg of the journey as I think the d...

Saen Monorom is a small town very close to the Vietnamese border in Western Cambodia. It took us about 5 hours to get there from Phnom Penh. There aren't any taxis or tuktuks out there so we managed to find two guys willing to take us on the back of their scooters the 2km out of town to our hostel. This 'scooter taxi' cost around $1 each. Our hostel was a set of small lodges (basically garden sheds) set in a large field with cows and horses roaming around outsi...

I won't write a seperate blog about Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) as there isn't too much to write. The first day we arrived we did the guide book walking tour in the rain which wasn't very interesting. The second day we visited the Reunification Palace which had some nice architecture and interior decoration, in the afternoon we went to see a film at the cinema. Basically Saigon is a big, busy city and our gateway to Cambodia. On our last day in Vietnam we crossed the ...

After Hue we made our way down to Hoi An in the soft seater carriage of the morning train. This involved being packed into a carriage with the locals all watching a Bollywood movie dubbed in Vietnamese!! The scenery as we got closer to Hoi An was beautiful with white sandy beaches and clear blue sea. To get to Hoi An we had to disembark the train at Danang and get a taxi half an hour into the town. We shared our cab with an English website designer who was doin...

The day we arrived back in Hanoi from Sapa we made our way to the Hanoi Mausoleum Complex. Unfortunately once we had grabbed a coffee and some breakfast and walked the long walk over there from the hotel it was 11am and it was closing! Oops! Anyway it seemed most of it was being refurbished and Ho Chi Minh's body had been moved to Russia for a bit so we couldn't see him anyway. A bit of a disappointment really but we got to see some super communist buildings and...