While in Phnom Penh there is one site (an attraction is probably not the best word to describe the place) you must visit before moving on to your next destination: the Killing fields of Choeung Ek. Between 1975-1978 over 17.000 people were killed at this extermination camp by the Pol Pot regime (in total 1,7 million Cambodians, 25% of the population at that time). It is impossible to describe in words the sadness this place displays. While walking around y...

After 4 days in the overwhelming HCMC we thought it was time to have a mini holiday in between our travels and decided to go to Phu Quoc Island, the most southern and biggest island of Vietnam. As we are on a tight budget we decided to take a bus to Ha Tien and then take a ferry to the island instead of flying directly from HCMC. According to a very reliable Vietnamese travel agent the bus journey would just take 6 hours... Now, the connection with the small vil...