We got a bus to Battambang, a little tricky due to the public holiday but managed to get the right bus! Did not enjoy the ride much at all, Cambodian music and film clips BLASTING on the stereo and aircon was freezing! Ended up wearing earplugs for the 5 hour trip, it was that bad! Arrived there safely tho and got a Tuk Tuk to our hotel, called the royal hotel, was nice and clean but very old and daggy! We ended up having lunch at a great place called geko cafe (...

WARNING- some of this might be quite upsetting to read, about the genocide and murdering of cambodian people under the khumer rouge. I know its not nice to write about but they are things I've seen and leant and i hope everyone can learn from this sad history. We had 3 nights in Phnom Penh. Unfortunately for us it was their new year celebrations so the place was like a ghost town, everyone leaves the city to go to their families in the country for holidays. It w...

Not a fun day! It was the day we left phu quoc island and sadly Vietnam, off to Cambodia! After a fantastic month in Vietnam it felt sad and even a bit strange to be leaving! We were starting to really get a taste for the food, learn more of the language so a shame to be leaving. Reflecting on our month there, there are a few key things I've learnt: - you can put anything (and multiples of anything!) on a scooter! - if you thought I was a slow eater before, you...

We were really excited the next morning to get on a ferry to Phu Quoc island- this is the honeymoon part of the trip where we had a fancy resort booked for 5 nights :) About 4 different friends had recommended the island so lots to look forward to! The ferry ride was fine, we sat next to some Dutch people who we did the one day Mekong delta tour with, they were really nice and gave us some great tips for Cape Town and one of them had recently lived there. We ar...

If you are ever in Vietnam and decide to do a one day Mekong delta tour... DON'T!!!! We booked a tour for 2 nights in the Mekong delta making our way across to a ferry to Phu Quoc island. It meant the first day we were on the same tour ppl from Saigon booked just for the day. It was absolutely terrible! Everything was set up for tourists and we didn't see anything really that was the usual way of life in the Mekong. We got taken in a tourist boat to an island whe...