It was a groggy morning getting out at 6 am in Hoi An and even with a map, I managed to walk 4 km out of the city. You get to a point where you don't trust the motorbike taxis telling where you need to go, since most of the time they tell you its 10km instead of 2km so you agree to their fare.. so being stubborn I (and a poor guy who was following me since i had a map) continued to walk down a small highway.. until the cars were even pulling over to tell us to t...

Natrang was the perfect stopover in between my two sleeping buses. Got dropped off at dawn 3 minutes away from a white sanded beach where I stupidly fell asleep on.... with just one coat of sunscreen. Needless to say, I was a lobster by 2, fortunately my laziness kept me from changing into a bathing suit, so the burn area was limited... Needing to hide from the sun, I went to a temple to spend the rest of my day at the Long Son pagoda. I didn't realize all the ni...

Ho Chi Minh, huge, alive and lots of parks. It was an impressive first stop in Vietnam and a big change in modern ways compared to Cambodia. The people were nice, better then what I had expected after hearing a few stories... Being the largest city in Vietnam, I decided to stick to the first district of 12 to explore, and that was plenty for a few days. Most of my days were spent people watching in the parks, locals were doing Thai Chi, exercising and giving danc...

Before heading south to the capital, I made a stop halfway in Kampong Cham, well I didn't actually see much of the city, I went straight for Koh Paen, a beautiful island that's connected to the town by an elaborate bamboo bridge that is rebuilt every year after the monsoon (its worth a Google search in images, trucks even go on this thing). I was drawn to this island for one reason. The bamboo huts guesthouse, aka, hammock paradise. Two dollar hammocks on the M...

Sweet Cambodia, once again when I crossed that border, everything seemed to feel a bit better. My first destination was Ban Lung, a small town, usually used as a hub to get to the Virachey national park, which is were I was headed for some trekking. The bus ride from the islands to this town was the most expensive transportation yet, and the worse. I am not one to complain about seating arragments, smells or departing on time, but this pushed me a little. We left...